My wife and I were discussing self-confidence the other day, and I got to thinking that there can be a challenge as you get old and a bit forgetful. If you have had a long, successful and loving marriage, discussing everything and coming to consensus every day (all day?), then, when having to handle an …
Commuters, as a tribe, tend to be “unloved”. Victorians called them “the dark horde”. T.S. Eliot compared them to the souls in hell. But now suddenly we need them, desperately. “Come back, commuters. Rally to your city. It needs your fares, your rents, your Starbucks, your Prets, your nights on the tiles.” Without them, cities …
The British, it would seem, are keen on the new trend – induced by Covid-19 – of working from home. In a recent YouGov poll, only 13% of British adults felt workers able to do their job from home should return to the office; and as a Morgan Stanley survey has shown, only a third …
Big Pharma giant Gilead last year dropped a sweet $31 million on its new CEO Daniel O’Day, along with marching orders to find a new path to greater profits. O’Day didn’t have to look far. The pandemic has given Gilead a new application — reducing Covid-19 recovery time — for its already developed antiviral drug …
Universities with huge endowments are pretending remote learning is the same experience as in person teaching. Harvard, for instance, is offering the bulk of their courses online, as are the University of California system, Yale, and Princeton. What they all are not doing is reducing tuition, even though a significant portion of the value these …
