Weekly Roundup: Edtech and AI; The Instrutable GenZs; 4000 weeks; Upcoming Event

Jul 21, 2024

The founder of Cobra Beer and Member of Parliament Lord Karan Billimoria will be on Network Capital today. Subscribers can join and ask questions.

Bond Capital published a fascinating report on the evolution of education as AI becomes more widespread. As an industry, education is 5 times larger than advertising (the main revenue source of companies like Google and Facebook)

When it comes to how Gen Z digests and addresses the validity of information, Jigsaw’s recent research found that generally, they look to each other. The co-author Beth is one of our community members.

4,000 weeks is what we have.

Focusing on important stuff is easier said than done. There are innumerable tempting distractions that can lead us astray. Poet Mary Oliver calls distraction “the intimate interrupter”. She says, “But just as often, if not more often, the interruption comes not from another but from the self itself, or some other self within the self that whistles and pounds upon the door panels and tosses itself, splashing into the pond of meditation. And what does it have to say? That you must phone the dentist, that you are out of mustard, that your uncle Stanley’s birthday is two weeks hence. You react, of course. Then you return to your work, only to find that the imps of idea have fled back into the mist.”

An essential video to understand how the world works

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