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People around the world are worried about rising polarization. Deep Listening is a way to inoculate ourselves and our communities against it—to build understanding even among those who may still ultimately disagree.
Hustle culture is widespread everywhere, from Accra's marketplace to New York City's corporate offices. Rachel Laryea dissects that culture, looking at how it manifests in different communities and countries, the harm it inflicts on all of us—but on historically marginalized communities in particular—and how "pushback and disruption of the system can intervene in and refashion the system itself."
Juliet Schor has been researching companies implementing four-day workweeks since the beginning of 2022 and has testified before the US Senate on the topic. Here, she looks at the progress being made and whether the model can be applied more widely across all types of organizations.
De Kai is an AI professor who pioneered global-scale online language translators. To address the challenges AI presents to humanity, he suggests we must rely on one of our most human qualities, empathy.
Our digital technologies are not neutral tools. We tend to think of algorithms, in particular, as somehow devoid of human influence but they are, in fact, rules written by people. That makes the politics of the platforms that employ them of paramount importance. Mike Pepi explores how we can assess the situation to survive the platform age.
