Recommended Links-October 1, 2021

Is Going to the Office a Broken Way of Working?; To see Germany’s future, look at its cars; The train that shrunk France; McKinsey is quietly developing into a software behemoth

1. Read: Is Going to the Office a Broken Way of Working? A conversation with Chris Herd, who foresees a future in which most companies are remote-first. [via the New Yorker]

2. Read: Daniel Kahneman: How Companies Can Improve Their Hiring Process [via WSJ]

3. Watch: To see Germany’s future, look at its cars [via The Economist]

4. Read: The train that shrunk France… and Western Europe [via ArsTechnica]

5. Listen: Until We Get Rid of Fossil Fuels, Can Data Make Them More Efficient? [via IEEE Radio Spectrum]

6. McKinsey is quietly developing into a software behemoth [via Romeen Sheth]