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🕵️ Stupid overconfidence in "The Traitors" raises a crucial question about our democracy
Why do so many people follow the stupidly overconfident types in The Traitors? And what can we learn from it to defend our democracy?
🥃 The glass is neither half full nor half empty
Fact-based optimists don't care whether the glass is half full or half empty. They see the world in a different way.
⏰ Now it’s happening – but no one notices
Last week, two things happened that mostly showed up as brief news items. Having followed both of these developments for years, I’m fascinated by how little attention they get. Each of them will, on its own, have a massive impact on our world.
🧠 Conversation-based dementia therapy – a problem only generative AI can solve
Three years ago, not even one of the largest companies in the world could solve this problem. Now a small startup can. The reason is generative AI.
📗 Book excerpt: A steam engine for the brain
An excerpt from The Fifth Acceleration: Why AI Is Not the End – but the Beginning of What We Can Become by Mathias Sundin.
📗 Book excerpt: The beginning of what we can become
But technology itself will not create progress. It depends on where and how technology is used and must go hand in hand with social progress. That's where you come in.
💀 What the media says we die from – and what we actually die from (terrorism overreported 18,000 times)
What we die from are heart disease and cancer. Which causes of death do you think top the news headlines?
🚛 How he is leading Volvo through its greatest transformation ever
He leads Sweden’s largest company, which has been selling trucks for nearly a hundred years. Soon, they’ll stop doing that — and instead sell transport as a service. How do you lead such a massive company through that kind of transformation?
🚛 The self-driving future is getting closer at Volvo
Volvo is facing its biggest shift since the company was founded. Instead of selling trucks, it now aims to sell transportation – with autonomous vehicles at the center of an entirely new ecosystem.