Is it fair to let an AI reject you after judging your personality? — In 2004, when a “webcam” was relatively unheard-of tech, Mark Newman knew that it would be the future of hiring. One of the first things the 20-year old did, after getting his degree in international business, was to co-found HireVue, a company offering a digital interviewing platform. Business trickled in…

Early last month, at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, I saw something, or someone, that would, on any other day, be out of place: a philosopher. Damon Horowitz—a philosopher at Columbia University who has a history of serial entrepreneurship and was once In-House Philosopher and Director of Engineering…

Human nature as a guide to ethical organizational design. — Charles Darwin ended The Origin of Species, his argument for evolution by natural selection, on a note of celebrated eloquence. “There is grandeur to this view of life,” he wrote, “with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet…

Earlier this month at the Beacon Theater, in New York City, Daniel Kahneman, famed author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, had a conversation with neuroscientist Sam Harris. It ranged over many of the topics the Nobel Prize-winning behavioral scientist has explored in his work. This included the “remembering” and “experiencing”…

How to phase out the “Wolf of Wall Street” mentality — Before he became “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Jordan Belfort, when he arrived in New York in the 1980s, was more like a starry-eyed sheep. That’s how Leonardo DiCaprio plays him in The Wolf of Wall Street, the film adapted from Belfort’s 2007 memoir of his years as a stockbroker…

It would take an unreasonable amount of plants to balance rising CO2 levels being found at home, school, and work — What’s the most important number in the world? Bill McKibben thinks it’s 350. The environmental activist co-founded 350.org, a climate advocacy group, as a way to popularize the finding of a 2008 paper: CO2 in the atmosphere will need to be reduced to at most 350 parts per million “if…

Many things, it turns out. But it’s been that way since the start. — Note: This is the essay I turned in for my History of Journalism class in 2013. We had to make use of selections from the professor’s chosen stock of sources while responding to one of a few prompts. If you were to search for the essence, the definition, or the…