Here are a few reads that I enjoyed this year on a variety of topics (tech, business, environment, society, etc) including articles, blog posts and longer more in-depth reads. Hope you’ll find them interesting too!
Business
How to Do Great Work: July 2023[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different…
Elon Musk's Shadow Rule: Ronan Farrow reports on how the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire-and is now struggling to rein him…
Bloomberg is contemplating life without its founder: Michael Bloomberg is lining up succession and one of the largest charitable donations in history
'Sam? Are you there?!' The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX: How Sam Bankman-Fried and his band of millennial millionaires lost a $40bn crypto empire
My husband founded a startup. Then our marriage got weird.: Confessions of a startup founder's wife
Tech
AI and the automation of work - Benedict Evans: ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of…
How Google tried to fix the web - by taking it over: Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. But even after wide…
What OpenAI Really Wants: The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate…
Generative AI and intellectual property - Benedict Evans: If you put all the world's knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns that and who gets…
In Milan, Putting an A.I. Travel Adviser to the Test: On her first visit to the northern Italian city, our reporter compares the itineraries of two travel advisers: one…
Pourquoi sauver Notman?: Ce n'est pas que la Maison Notman qui se trouve à un tournant décisif, c'est toute la communauté "start-up".
Environment
The No-Jet Set: They've Given Up Flying to Save the Planet: With airplanes producing a large amount of climate-warming emissions, a growing number of travelers are signing pledges…
Science
Opinion | My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon: Organ transplantation is mired in stagnant science and antiquated, imprecise medicine that fails patients and organ…
Society
The Beauty of a 'Walk and Talk': Taking a stroll with someone is a wonderful way to strengthen your social connections.
Les désespérés du temps: Le temps des vacances s'étiole et le rythme des horaires, des routines, des listes et des cases à cocher se réimpose.
World affairs
Yuval Noah Harari argues that what's at stake in Ukraine is the direction of human history: Humanity's greatest political achievement has been the decline of war. That is now in jeopardy | By Invitation
On one of the world's most dangerous migrant routes, a cartel makes millions off the American dream…: A CNN team trekked nearly 70 miles across the Darién Gap, a stretch of remote jungle connecting South and Central…
Opinion | I'm Going to War for Israel. Palestinians Are Not My Enemy.: This war could have been avoided, and no one did enough to prevent it.