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Rebecca Winthrop: If AI Does the Homework, Learning Stops

2026-10-2801:29:00

During COVID, Rebecca Winthrop watched her straight-A eldest son stop working the day his grades went pass/fail. "If it's not counted, it doesn't matter," he told her. Her younger son, who had struggled at school, blossomed at the kitchen table. The education expert had read her own children the wrong way round. Rebecca is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. Before Brookings, she ran the International Rescue Committee's education work...

Psychologist Jamil Zaki: Empathy Is a Skill You Can Train

2026-10-1401:40:08

Jamil Zaki was eight when his parents began a divorce that took four years. To stay close to both of them, he had to work, every day, to understand two people who could no longer understand each other. He calls it his empathy gym. Jamil is a professor of psychology at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and two books, The War for Kindness and Hope for Cynics. His lab's experiments show that empathy can b...

Olivier Goy: Invincible Hope

2026-09-3001:12:29

In December 2020, a neurologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière told Olivier Goy he had ALS, Charcot's disease. No cure. Three to five years. He spent four months on the floor. Then a sentence came to him, so simple it almost made him laugh: if I stay depressed, I punish myself twice. Olivier founded 123Venture in 2000, with nine months of professional experience, to open private equity to ordinary savers, then co-founded October to finance small and medium businesses. Since his diagnosis he has bec...

Atul Satija: Give Till It Hurts

2026-09-1601:39:47

He kept promising himself he would fight poverty one day. First at retirement. Then in his fifties. Then his forties. Until the day it felt like he was lying to himself. So one weekend he started cold-calling nonprofits at random, and walked away from a career most people spend their lives chasing. Atul Satija is the founder of The/Nudge Institute, one of India’s most ambitious anti-poverty organisations, and the “Founder 2.0” of GiveIndia. Before that, he spent nearly two decades in the fron...

[FR] Frédéric Laloux, Reinventing Organizations : 15 000 personnes, zéro manager

2026-09-0201:42:51

Regrouper les infirmiers pour faire des économies. Leur retirer le téléphone, un centre d'appels s'occupera de tout. Chronométrer chaque geste : deux minutes trente pour un bas de contention, dix minutes pour une piqûre. Poser un code-barres sur la porte du patient, pour scanner à l'entrée et à la sortie. Chaque étape est raisonnable. Le résultat est un cauchemar, et c'était le vrai visage des soins à domicile aux Pays-Bas. Frédéric Laloux est l'auteur de Reinventing Organizations, autoédité ...

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