At Sun Valley, A.I. Isn’t the Only Competitive Advantage That Matters

At Sun Valley, A.I. Isn’t the Only Competitive Advantage That Matters

While A.I. continues to compress the value of routine knowledge work, lasting competitive advantage will increasingly depend on developing the deep expertise, adaptive thinking and cross-disciplinary collaboration that technology still cannot replicate. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images As leaders across technology, media and finance gather in Sun Valley this week, much of the conversation will…

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This Should Have Been the Grant Wahl World Cup

This Should Have Been the Grant Wahl World Cup

This summer the American Outlaws, the U.S. soccer team fan group, carried a picture of Wahl on their pregame march to the World Cup stadiums. Gounder now wonders if Wahl would have revived his attempt, from 15 years ago, to run for FIFA president. His radical-transparency platform reads especially prescient today. The Library of Congress…

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At Lisson Gallery, Kelly Akashi Gives Resilience Form

At Lisson Gallery, Kelly Akashi Gives Resilience Form

Installation view: Kelly Akashi’s “Heirloom” at Lisson, New York. © Kelly Akashi, courtesy Lisson Following a much-celebrated L.A. debut with Lisson Gallery, Kelly Akashi is presenting a new body of sculptural work in New York that reflects on how loss and memory are carried and transformed over time. What Akashi has created in the West…

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What Is the Election Assistance Commission?

What Is the Election Assistance Commission?

Trump has long touted false claims that U.S. elections are mired with widespread fraud and abuse, and has drawn on that baseless narrative to aggressively push for restricting practices such as mail-in voting and imposing stricter identification requirements for voters.  It is not yet clear whether Trump will appoint new commissioners to the board, or…

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