Forbes‘s Hannah Clark peers into the labor markets of the future to tell us ten professions that will disappear, ten that will emerge, and ten that will never go away. Bottom line: Tell your kids to forget about being oil wildcatters, to consider a career in quarantine enforcement, or weather any change by going into […]
I’m in Istabul, where the Turkish edition of AWNM came out earlier this week. Yesterday we launched the book at an conference sponsored by MediaCat, which published the book here. Thanks to everyone at MediaCat for their outstanding work!
This month A WHOLE NEW MIND begins rolling out in Asia and Europe, which is exciting even for a jaded guy like me. The Japanese edition was published two weeks ago — and, I’m happy to say, the book is already in its 3rd printing and sits atop the country’s business besteller lists. Must be
Lots of travel recently. As a result, not much posting. But I’ve managed to read a couple of books on airplanes recently, one of which I’ll write about today. The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle got a fair bit of ink when
About one in three Americans today is not a non-Hispanic white, according to new Census Bureau figures.
Here are some of the best reader submissions this week: Aimless by Trine Pederson, Singapore He walked along the football field, looking a bit tired, contemplative, forlorn. Spectators had long left. Another match finally over. Another loss. He had lost. How could this happen time and time again, he wondered? At the end of the
Solar panels on the roof. Hybrid car in the garage. Organic-cotton clothes in the closet. Today’s eco-radicals are voting with their dollars. From the May issue of Wired.
Attention, Torontonians. On Wednesday (26 April) at 7pm, I’ll be talking about A Whole New Mind at the Indigo bookstore at Bay and Bloor. My interlocutor for the evening will be Indigo founder and CEO Heather Reisman. Should be a great event. If you’re in Canada’s largest city tomorrow night, please stop by.
The mini-sagas have been flowing in — with, uh, varying levels of quality. Here’s a somewhat somber one from reader Jeff Rheinhardt that’s quite good. He calls it “Teens on Break from School”: Teens on break from school. They become one spirit, become one with the speeding car. Roar and rumble to the crest, whine
In this month’s edition of “The Trend Desk” on Yahoo! Finance, learn why water is the new oil, atoms are the new bits, and Jajah is the new Skype. (UPDATE: Investor’s Business Daily has a good related story.)
