Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (August 14, 2020)
The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time; How Automated Robots are Supporting the Surge in E-commerce; Dani Rodrik on
1. Read: The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time: Author JK Rowling, biographer Walter Isaacson, and psychiatrist Carl Jung all made it a point to cultivate periods of deep silence. [From Harvard Business Review]
2. Read: Which governments can best deliver public services online during a lockdown? Tuft University’s Digital Planet initiative scored and arrayed 42 countries on these two aspects: (1) digital public services and (2) inclusive and affordable internet. Additionally, a snapshot of the stringency of government lockdown and social distancing mandates was added into this analysis.
3. Read: A British AI Tool to Predict Violent Crime Is Too Flawed to Use: A government-funded system known as Most Serious Violence was built to predict first offenses but turned out to be wildly inaccurate. [From Wired]
4. Read: Wasteful, damaging, and outmoded: is it time to stop building skyscrapers? [From the Guardian]
5. Listen: How Automated Robots are Supporting the Surge in E-commerce [From Goldman Sachs]
6. Listen: What Poker Can Teach Us about Making the World a Better Place: Wharton’s Katherine Milkman talks with psychologist Maria Konnikova about her new book, ‘The Biggest Bluff. She explains how we can make decisions in an environment in which we have very little control.
7. Watch: Can These Companies Solve the Plastic Waste Problem? [From CNBC]
8. Watch: Dani Rodrik on globalization post-COVID-19. Where will the good jobs come from? [From the Institute of New Economic Thinking]