A Chinese game, in theory
Quentin Toulemonde This week, an article in the Financial Times caught my attention. In essence, the piece highlights the growing trend of highly educated young Chinese individuals with increasing career aspirations. However,…
Degree of Change: Revolutionizing Higher Education
Over the past several weeks, we have discussed various factors driving the present and future evolution of the job market, including demographic shifts, changes in the balance between blue-collar and…
Can AI make the workplace more humane?
This post marks a (temporary) conclusion to my series on the impact of AI on society at large and the job market specifically, with the first two posts accessible here…
AI-ming for Success: Navigating the Labour Market Shift
Last week, I examined the potential advantages and challenges that AI might introduce to society as a whole. This week, I would like to concentrate on the possible consequences for…
ChatGPT: ‘Great Progress or Threat’?
This post is the first of a 3-post series (there may be more actually, but for the time being I have only planned 3!) on the changes, positive and negative,…
Running out of ‘Credit’
On Friday evening I started writing about what I perceived to be last week’s hot topic, aka Microsoft’s release of its Copilot suite powered by GPT4, which I am convinced…
SVB – It’s a perfect (mis)match
The economic news was dominated this week by the resounding bankruptcy of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a bank based, as its name may suggest, in California. More than the…
Are you ‘Fearless’?
This week’s post took an unexpected turn. Last Friday, I was indeed planning to write another post on the layoffs in tech, discussing to which extent Elon Musk’s recent decision…
Avoiding the heart attack
Although this blog is relatively recent, keen readers since Day 1 may being to understand that the link between economy and demography is features fairly high in my list of…
Fake it until you lose it
To the honour of this blog’s name, my inspiration for this week comes from a Financial Times article, discussing the tax implications of expiring staff share awards in start-ups, as…