1. HealthTech: Thrust into the Spotlight Amid the Pandemic by Silicon Valley Bank. In 2020, health tech companies raised USD 16 bn in funding, with 15 companies reaching unicorn status. An increasing share of funding is coming from investors that are not classically associated with healthcare.
  2. “Data Trusts” Could Be the Key to Better AI by George Zarkadakis for Harvard Business Review. Data trusts or other forms of data collaboration are an interesting opportunity — in particular for the many European SMEs — to leverage, expertise, reduce costs, and aggregate enough data for machine learning solutions.
  3. The Synchronicity of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung by Paul Halpern for Nautilus. How the treatment of Pauli by Jung shaped their lives and thoughts.
  4. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang. Some books radically expand your understanding of world history. This is one of them. The book spans three generations of women in twentieth-century China and the impact of Mao on the country and their lives.
  5. How Should Our Company Structure Our Data Team? by David Murray at Snaptravel. Accumulated learnings from five data team iterations at Snaptravel: centralized, embedded, full-stack, pods and business domains.
  6. When Do We Trust Recommenders More Than People? by Chiara Longoni and Luca Cian for Harvard Business Review. Machines are biased and people are biased against machines. Sometimes. Insights under which conditions consumers do and do not trust recommenders.
  7. In Search for a Planet Better than Earth: Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World by Schulze-Makuch et al. (2020). When looking out into the cosmos, we tend to look for planets as inhabitable as Earth. The paper discusses twenty-four super habitable planets among the >4000 exoplanets we know today.
  8. Lil Nas X Delivers One of the Most Viewed In-Game Concerts by IQ Mag. Lil Nas X performed on the gaming platform Roblox, which has recently gained popularity (particularly among teenagers) with 30 mio daily active users. The performance garnered 35 mio views, slightly less than the Travis Scott in-game concert on Fortnite (with 45 mio views).
  9. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin. Re-read of the 1973 short fiction that doesn’t fail to hit home.
  10. The Idea Adoption Curve by Ben Thompson at Stratechery. How changes in business models affect the kind of content created. The NY Times’ shift to subscription created an environment where they shift towards more visionary ideas directed straight at their subscriber demography.