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• Modernity + Coloniality

  September 13, 2020

  A free online summer seminar on coloniality and decoloniality Course Instructor: Ahmed Ansari Dates & Times: Every Saturday, 2pm to 3:30pm EST. There are 300 seats in the Zoom session, and… more ›

• The Best Jazz Albums of 2020

  July 26, 2020

  Overview Best Albums New Releases Top Artists The Best Jazz Albums of 2020 Decade Source Genre Become a Donor Donor badge, no ads + more benefits. https://www.albumoftheyear.org/genre/35-jazz/2020/ more ›

• How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users – Issue 25

  May 18, 2020

  Hello, and welcome to a free monthly edition of my newsletter. I’m Lenny, and each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s… more ›

• The truth behind filter bubbles: Bursting some myths

  February 2, 2020

  A filter bubble is a state of intellectual or ideological isolation that may result from algorithms feeding us information we agree with, based on our past behaviour and search history.… more ›

• Global Risks

  January 18, 2020

  The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global,… more ›

• BlackRock C.E.O. Larry Fink: Climate Crisis Will Reshape Finance

  January 14, 2020

  In his influential annual letter to chief executives, Mr. Fink said his firm would avoid investments in companies that “present a high sustainability-related risk.” Laurence D. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/business/dealbook/larry-fink-blackrock-climate-change.html more ›

• William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was’

  January 11, 2020

  In 2016, William Gibson was a third of the way through his new novel when Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/11/william-gibson-i-was-losing-a-sense-of-how-weird-the-real-world-was more ›

• She Was a Star of New York Real Estate, but Her Life Story Was a Lie

  January 11, 2020

  Wrapped in furs, dripping with diamonds and with her blond hair perfectly coifed, Faith Hope Consolo cut a glamorous figure in the flashy, late 20th-century world of New York City… more ›

• Mohammed bin Zayed’s Dark Vision of the Middle East’s Future

  January 10, 2020

  Richard Clarke was in Abu Dhabi one morning in 2013 when his phone lit up. “You busy?” a familiar voice said. It was a rhetorical question. The caller was Mohammed… more ›

• Best of Lisbon 2020

  January 1, 2020

  Another year brings with it another batch of bests, another smattering of stand-outs, and another assortment of achievements. https://www.atlaslisboa.com/best-of-lisbon-2020/ more ›