Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (June 18, 2021)

Investing now to reimagine public-health systems; Singapore's 50 Year March Towards Water Independence; Why Is Academic Writing So Bad?

1. Read: Moore's Law for Everything: This recent essay by Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI has been in the news. It discusses the political and economic consequences of ubiquitous artificial intelligence.

2. Read: Not the last pandemic: Investing now to reimagine public-health systems: Smart investments of as little as $5 per person per year globally can help ensure far better preparation for future pandemics. [via McKinsey]

3. Listen: Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett explains how anthropology can shed light on the way we behave in the workplace, identifying the hidden tribes within the office, and pinpointing which rituals are binding together a team.

4. Listen: Why Is Academic Writing So Bad?

5. Watch: Singapore's 50 Year March Towards Water Independence [via Asianometry]

6. Watch: MIT’s Andrew Lo on the Future of Finance [via Yale SOM]

7. Chart of the Week: Food GHG emissions could consume most of our 1.5 or 2 degree carbon budget [ via Our World in Data]