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Watch now (38 mins) | 🎙️ I gave Meta’s Muse my calendar, my email, and my kids’ chaotic schedule, and it produced a one-shot family PDF more beautiful than anything I’ve ever made with Claude or Codex
But this job is. We all need to feed our family, find shelter and contribute to the community. Finding useful work is a key part of the human condition. But that doesn’t mean the thing you’re being asked to do right now is required. In fact, it’s optional. It might come with this particular gig, […]
Relying too much on AI will hurt both individuals and organizations in the long run, warns Wharton’s Cornelia Walther. … Read More
In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Wharton’s G. Richard Shell explains why persuasion is about preparation, not just rhetoric. … Read More
Itay Goldstein, Wharton professor of finance, examines why semi-liquid private credit funds can become fragile when investors want their money back. … Read More
How to stand out when everyone is running the same playbook
Nick Lowndes/Ikon Images Businesses are striving to adapt ever faster to keep pace with rapid change, and yet B2B marketing practices have remained surprisingly static. Sure, the tactics have shifted to digital executions, and the use of data has made targeting B2B buyers more precise, but marketers remain rooted in fundamentally flawed assumptions about the […]
Maps are easy to sell. If you know where you are and where you’d like to go, the map solves your problem. Maps are all around us: how-to, what-to, step-by-step. The compass is more resilient but less descriptive. It shines a light, gives us clarity, but the next steps are up to us. In an […]
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Wharton's Nikolai Roussanov and Goldman Sachs' Ingrid Tierens discuss how AI is transforming quantitative finance, from investment research and data analysis to the future of quantitative investing. … Read More
Watch now (42 mins) | 🎙️ Two designers at SpaceXAI show me how they use Grok Bot to run Figma from the gym, update a portfolio with one photo, and turn shower thoughts into working prototypes
PPaint/Ikon Images Dry rot. A Potemkin village. The Wizard of Oz. What do those things have in common? In each case, they may look good on the surface, but it’s only an illusion. Wood afflicted with dry rot looks just fine until the tree it’s in topples down. Grigory Potemkin is said to have tried […]
Let’s imagine the airline you run had to cancel just one flight a year. You have three days notice. How would you go about it? You might begin by considering the travelers with the tightest itineraries, and explore which options exist and prioritize them. Then, this being late-stage capitalism, you might look at the passengers […]
One person isn’t a lecture, it’s lunch. Three people is office hours. Six people is a seminar. At some point, we shift from interaction to performance–but the people are the same people, the very ones that were happy to simply sit and have lunch with us. Bring in some cameras and it goes from a […]
A Lenny's Newsletter roundup collecting community wisdom on AI applications in sports coaching, evaluating project management tools like Jira versus Linear, making the business case for platform teams, and sharing practical AI use cases across different domains.
The office worker has learned to dread the annual review. For many good reasons. It’s going away. Now, like workers on the factory floor, it’s likely that the metrics will be exposed and the system will be contributing a review, not just the boss. AI will show up with your score, once a day, or […]
Gregory P. Shea, Wharton adjunct professor of management and co-author of 'Rising From Ground Zero,' discusses how the FDNY transformed its leadership, training, psychological support, and disaster response after 9/11. … Read More
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IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Nick Bare on doing the work: "Sometimes, we think that just doing more of something or working harder on anything will get us to our goal, but just because you're working harder doesn't mean you deserve the outcome. It doesn't mean you've earned it. The wo
The Knot is coming. On sale today, a limited-edition pennant made by hand in Buffalo… The five-pack from Porchlight (with bonus Spindex) is still available as well. The launch event on September 21 is fully sold out. Spotify chose The Knot as an editor’s pick this month, and the Next Big Idea Club shortlisted it […]
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