Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations [June 10, 2022]

Refine Your Listening Skills; Steven Levy’s Excellent Conversation with Bill Gates, Should we cut public spending on higher education, a waste of time and money?; Why The World Is Running Out Of Soil

1. Read: Refine Your Listening Skills [via Harvard Business Review]

2. Read: Steven Levy’s Excellent Conversation with Bill Gates where he talks about the next pandemic, software, the metaverse and much more [via Wired]

3. Listen: Be it resolved, cut public spending on higher education, it’s a waste of time and money. A very interesting discusssion between the always provocative and interesting economist Bryan Caplan and the ex-Chancellor of the University of California Nicholas Dirks [via the Munk Debates]

4. Watch: Why The World Is Running Out Of Soil [via CNBC]