2022
- Progress
- Progress, humanism, agency
- Politics
- The Human Cost of Normalizing Assad
- Rivalry between America and China will shape the post-covid world
- Ideas
- In “How to Write a Thesis,” Umberto Eco walks students through the craft and rewards of sustained research
2021
- Governance & Politics:
- The Trouble with the View from Above
- Bashar al-Assad’s Unlikely Comeback
- Climate:
- Stripe Is Kick Starting Market for Carbon Removal
- Development:
- Th economic growth necessary to reduce global poverty
- National Development Delivers
- Innovation:
- What We Learned Doing Fast Grants
- Remote Work and the Future of Innovation
- Can a new approach to funding scientific research unlock innovation?
- Progress:
- How does progress happen?
- What are the returns to R&D?
- Education & Learning
- The New American University
- Cognitive Load, Emotion and Buoyancy
- Memories are made of this
- Organisational Culture:
- Where Do Pro-Social Institutions Come From?
- Building Products at Stripe
- Business:
- 1,000 True Fans
- Invisible asymptotes
- Idea Generation
- Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?
- Technology:
- Moderation in Infrastructure
- Anthropology:
- Rules of Thumb and Adaptive Rationality
- Ideas:
- Upside decay
- Truth, Status, and Tribes
- The importance trap
- Familiarity and Belonging
- Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
- Literature:
- Inside the Whale
Poetry
- Gibran Khalil Gibran: On Work
- Eavan Boland: The Emigrant Irish
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Go to the Limits of Your Longing
- Charles Baudelaire: The Albatross
Arwa Almustafa 