AI Prompt Engineering Isn't the Future

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AI Prompt Engineering Isn't the Future     Prompt engineering has taken the generative AI world by storm. The job, which entails optimizing textual input to effectively communicate with large language models, has been hailed by World Economic Forum as the number one “job of the future” while Open AI CEO Sam Altman characterized it as an “amazingly high-leveraged skill.” Social media brims with a new wave of influencers showcasing “magic prompts” and pledging amazing outcomes. Continued here

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Why Your Business Needs to Fight Against Apathy     The political environment is so bleak that there's a temptation for many people to avoid any kind of engagement. Don't do that to your team. Continued here

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The Right Time to Ask for Feedback     You have an important presentation due in two days. After spending hours writing and polishing it, you’re finally confident that it’s in great shape. You send the final slides to your boss, hoping for a simple sign-off. “Hi Erna,” you write, “I would love to know what you think of this deck. Can I have your notes by EOD tomorrow? Continued here

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Extensions and bridge rounds are becoming more common. Here's what you need to know about them.     Extensions and bridge rounds are becoming more common. Here's what you need to know about them. Continued here

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How Diversity Can Drive Innovation     In this research, which rests on a nationally representative survey of 1,800 professionals, 40 case studies, and numerous focus groups and interviews, we scrutinized two kinds of diversity: inherent and acquired. Inherent diversity involves traits you are born with, such as gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Acquired diversity involves traits you gain from experience: Working in another country can help you appreciate cultural differences, for example, while selling to female consumers can give you gender smarts. We refer to companies whose leaders exhibit at least three inherent and three acquired diversity traits as having two-dimensional diversity. Continued here

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How to Write a Resignation Letter     Should you write a resignation letter? In most cases, quitting a job doesn’t require one. However, there are some situations in which you want to write one, the author explains in this piece. She outlines what those reasons are and offers advice for how to actually write one, including tips on what not to say. The article also includes a template you can use with sample language. Continued here

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4 Disciplines That Will     Making space for mentoring and coaching, no matter your age or stage of leadership, is essential. Continued here

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India's fully electric cab company isn't worried about competition from Ola, Uber     With an all-electric ride-hailing fleet and charging hubs set up across Bengaluru, Delhi, and the National Capital Region (NCR), BluSmart is a mobility player that promises “zero denials” and “zero surge” to customers, and “zero financial investments” to drivers.BluSmart claims to own the largest fleet of electric cabs in India, with the biggest network of electric vehicle charging stations in Delhi-NCR.  Continued here

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After COVID-19, Can mRNA Vaccines Help with Cancer as Well?     The COVID pandemic put mRNA technology, long in development, to the test. Here’s a look at how it might fight cancer and when it might reach patientsVaccines against Covid-19 were delivered with remarkable and unprecedented speed. The ones pioneered by Moderna in the US and BioNTech in Germany introduced the lay public to a new kind of shot: one that includes mRNA, the nucleic acid that normally carries genetic instructions from the cell nucleus to the part of the cell where proteins are made. Continued here

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What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)     Although most people believe that they are self-aware, true self-awareness is a rare quality. In this piece, the author describes a recent large-scale investigation that shed light on some of the biggest roadblocks, myths, and truths about what self-awareness really is — and what it takes to cultivate it. Specifically, the study found that there are actually two distinct types of self-awareness, that experience and power can hinder self-awareness, and that introspection doesn’t always make you more self-aware. Understanding these key points can help leaders learn to see themselves more clearly. Continued here

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Managing the Risks of Generative AI     Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become widely popular, but its adoption by businesses comes with a degree of ethical risk. Organizations must prioritize the responsible use of generative AI by ensuring it is accurate, safe, honest, empowering, and sustainable. Organizations need to be mindful of the ethical implications and take necessary steps to reduce risks. Specifically, they need to:  use zero or first party data, keep data fresh and well labeled, ensure there’s a human in the loop, test and re-test, and get feedback. Continued here

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Colombia's 'Cocaine Hippo' Population Is Even Bigger Than Scientists Thought     The most comprehensive census yet of the hippos in Colombia that are descended from several imported by drug-cartel leader Pablo Escobar reveals that there could be twice as many of the invasive animals as previous estimates indicatedColombia’s invasive hippo population is even larger than researchers had thought, according to the most thorough census of the animals conducted yet. Scientists were already concerned about the hippos — considered the largest invasive animal in the world — threatening native plants and animals in the country, and had been calling for drastic measures to reduce the population. The census results have only heightened that fear. Continued here

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Ali Hajimiri: How wireless energy from space could power everything     Modern life runs on wireless technology. What if the energy powering our devices could also be transmitted without wires? Electrical engineer Ali Hajimiri explains the principles behind wireless energy transfer and shares his far-out vision for launching flexible solar panels into space in order to collect sunlight, convert it to electrical power and then beam it down to Earth. Learn how this technology could power everything -- and light up our world from space. Continued here

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What Is     You could argue I'm reading too much into seeing Jeff Bezos at the Miami Formula 1 race. But I don't think so. Continued here

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Death Rates among Black People in the U.S. Are Rising after Falling     Eighty-two million years—that’s how much lifetime the U.S.’s Black population lost because of premature deaths between 1999 and 2020, a new study shows.The numbers are an alarming reminder of concerning gaps in health care—and they are not entirely surprising, according to experts on racial health disparity. The study’s authors say their findings should be a “call to action” for policymakers. “There’s no biological, intrinsic reason why people with darker skin should have shorter life spans,” says Harlan Krumholz, a study co-author and a cardiologist at Yale University. But because of the systemic racism that plagues American society, “the family you’re born into in this country can have devastating consequences.” Continued here

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Rich Nations Owe $192 Trillion for Causing Climate Change, New Analysis Finds     Researchers calculated that high-emitting countries, including the U.S., should pay $192 trillion in compensation to low-emitting nationsCLIMATEWIRE | A major question has emerged as the world strives to reduce greenhouse gases: How much money should rich nations pay to poor ones for raising Earth's temperature? Continued here

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Why More Companies Should Have a Sabbatical Policy     Sabbaticals have long been thought of as an academic privilege, but a growing number of companies offer them, especially since the pandemic. DJ DiDonna, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and founder of The Sabbatical Project, has interviewed hundreds of workers who’ve taken them and studied organizations that offer them. From his research and his own experience on a sabbatical, DiDonna shares the surprising impacts that extended time off—paid or unpaid—can have on workers, teams, and the overall organization. And he explains how organizations can make sabbaticals work both financially and culturally. Continued here

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The Quest for a Switch to Turn on Hunger     Let’s face it, eating is pretty pleasant—snacking on a handful of crunchy chips or slurping down a large portion of stew, then lying on the couch in a haze of sated pleasure. But spare a thought for those who live in constant dread of mealtime. Eating, for some, is extremely painful. When your digestive system doesn’t work as it should, nausea or vomiting can arrive after just a few bites. Or a badly digested meal can result in constipation, bloating, and lasting discomfort. Problems with digestion are far more common than you might think: Some 60-70 million people in the United States are thought to have some form of gastrointestinal disease.One particularly uncomfortable condition is gastroparesis, where the passage of food through the stomach is dramatically slowed. It affects just under 2 percent of the US population, and its symptoms can be severe: decreased appetite, nausea, and vomiting. Most patients manage their condition with some form of dietary restriction, but in severe cases, invasive treatments are needed—involving tube feeding, implanted devices, or surgery. “It’s a really needy area for which highly effective therapies do not exist,” says Suneil Koliwad, an endocrinologist at UC San Francisco. Continued here

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How China's rural influencers find fame and fortune across the Great Firewall     On a sunny spring day, Wang Min, more widely known by her nickname Sister Xia, picked wild dandelions in the mountains of the northwestern Shaanxi province. She then cooked the dandelions in her yard, mixing them with egg and minced pork, which she used as filling for a giant pot of steamed buns. Her family gathered in the yard to enjoy the buns, as roosters crowed in the background.These idyllic scenes, captured in a video titled “Xia uses dandelion to make steamed buns, it’s so delicious,” have garnered more than 120,000 views on YouTube, where Sister Xia has over 600,000 subscribers. “Those steamed buns look so soft and fluffy!” a fan from Argentina wrote in Spanish. “You and your husband are adorable,” said another comment in French.  Continued here

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Pakistan's lost city of 40,000 people     A slight breeze cut through the balmy heat as I surveyed the ancient city around me. Millions of red bricks formed walkways and wells, with entire neighbourhoods sprawled out in a grid-like fashion. An ancient Buddhist stupa towered over the time-worn streets, with a large communal pool complete with a wide staircase below. Somehow, only a handful of other people were here – I practically had the place all to myself.I was about an hour outside of the dusty town of Larkana in southern Pakistan at the historical site of Mohenjo-daro. While today only ruins remain, 4,500 years ago this was not only one of the world's earliest cities, but a thriving metropolis featuring highly advanced infrastructures. Continued here

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Gift Wrapping Five Oranges Has Outwitted the Best Minds in Mathematics for Generations     Perfectly wrapping spherical objects together seems trivial, but it’s a task that has stumped mathematicians for centuries“In the old days, we only got oranges as presents—and we were happy about it!” This is a phrase you sometimes hear when an older person criticizes the lavish masses of gifts today’s children receive. What they rarely mention is the gift wrapping. Let’s say you wanted to give five oranges as a gift: How would you arrange the fruits so that they consumed as little space and wrapping paper as possible? Continued here

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Employee Gave Me a Scathing Letter When He Resigned     And two other tricky workplace dilemmas. Continued here

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The Most Impressive Thing About the Apple Vision Pro Isn't the Technology. It's the Story     It seems like Apple has nailed the hardware. It definitely nailed the experience. Continued here

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The search for Earth's hidden mountains     It was a glaring summer's day in Antarctica. Through frozen eyelashes, Samantha Hansen blinked out at the featureless landscape: a wall of white, where up was the same as down, and ground blended seamlessly into sky. Amid these disorientating conditions, with temperatures of around -62C (-80F), she identified a suitable spot in the snow, and took out a spade.Hansen was in the continent's bleak interior – not the comparatively balmy, picturesque Antarctica of cruise ship tours, but an unforgiving environment rarely even braved by the local wildlife. As part of a team from the University of Alabama and Arizona State University, she was looking for hidden 'mountain' ranges – peaks that no explorer has ever set foot on, no sunlight has ever illuminated. These mountains occur deep within the Earth. Continued here

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Build a Strong Learning Culture on Your Team     With the nature of work changing so rapidly, it’s no longer enough just to offer employees opportunities for upskilling and reskilling. Companies also need to help workers become “expert learners” — and a key way of doing that, the learning-and-development expert James McKenna writes, is to follow the principles of the Universal Design Framework for learning, or UDL. In this article, McKenna lays out some of those principles and offers advice to companies who want to make it possible for their employees to become expert learners. Continued here

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'Diablo IV' Is a Mind-Melting Bloodbath     The woman in the church is really stoked about the murder she’s committing. You can see it in her eyes.It’s a very early cutscene in the video game Diablo IV, wherein a modestly clad villager bludgeons one of her fellow townsfolk. Her newfound lust for horrific violence comes courtesy of dark magic from the demon Lilith, Diablo IV’s primary antagonist. Lilith, also known as the Daughter of Hatred, has a simple pitch for the residents of Diablo’s world of Sanctuary: Violence is fun. You should try it. Continued here

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How to Grow Your Small Business on TikTok     To effectively market on TikTok, it's crucial to deliver value to your intended audience. Continued here

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Apple's truly revolutionary headset will usher in the age of augmented reality     After years of speculation, Apple made its most significant announcement since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, unveiling its new mixed reality headset called the Vision Pro. And like the iPhone before it, which kicked off the age of mobile computing, the Vision Pro aims to transform our lives for years to come, blurring the boundaries between our physical and digital worlds.In this augmented future, virtual content will be seamlessly merged with our surroundings, creating experiences throughout our daily lives that are wildly artistic, fancifully creative, deeply informative, or just plain useful. As explained in the keynote, Apple expects Vision Pro to be used for everything from exercise and entertainment to productivity, communication, education, gaming, content development, and of course, shopping — and all of it will be fully immersive. Continued here

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Closing the Racial Wealth Gap in Retirement Readiness     Black and Hispanic Americans are less financially prepared for retirement than their white counterparts for multiple reasons. Participants at the 2023 Pension Research Council Symposium grappled with the underlying causes and suggested reforms.Most Americans have a significant chunk of their life savings in the form of home equity, so inequities in homeownership could have far-reaching consequences for household wealth and retirement preparedness. But home equity is not the only factor contributing to retirement inequality in the U.S. The 2023 Pension Research Council Symposium delved deep into those factors and the potential policy reforms that could fix them. The symposium, titled “Diversity, Inclusion, and Inequality: Implications for Retirement Income Security and Policy,” was held in Philadelphia on March 30 and 31. Continued here

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Giant Seaweed 'Blob' Could Carry Dangerous Bacteria     The combination of a massive seaweed bloom, plastic in the ocean and climate change is increasing the risk of dangerous infectionsA “blob” of seaweed double the width of the U.S. that’s inching across the Caribbean and delivering loads of algae to Florida beaches is also carrying some unwelcome tourists: disease-causing bacteria. And the plastic debris we pour into the oceans may be making the situation worse. Continued here