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Is this what power feels like?
Is this what power feels like? Inside the Zohran Mamdani Election Night Party The wild diversity of New York packed into Zohran Mamdani’s election night party, but as I walked the floor of the Brooklyn Paramount all of them started to sort into three kinds of people. The first
Will Jewish leaders atone for their sins next year?
Falsifiable fearmongering and the Zohran Mamdani election. Maybe because they’re clergy so bad behavior takes on an fancier form, or because their worst conduct has played out in the shadow of the High Holidays, or because a Satmar sect in Williamsburg went so far as to say that “portraying
AI is the enemy of help
What if asking for help means you’re a worthless loser? Take it away, Malcolm: Gladwell: Malcolm Gladwell here. I recently recorded the first episode of Smart Talks with IBM, where I learned how AI agents are joining AI assistants as a major productivity tool. Let's start with
Scavenging for strategy
Ezra Klein and the mirages of losing I think any conversation between Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates is worth paying attention to, but one precisely during a moment of national crisis is likely a precious resource. I was particularly interested in listening to this latest conversation to help answer a