From a distance. How long will we live in the future? Aspiring leaders, don’t just network up

One “must” for this week: From a distance.

A reflection from Rishad Tobaccowala on how the impact of many of the experiences are often best appreciated from a distance. Especially true for the people we take for granted and then realize their importance when they are no longer with us.

As Carly Simon sings in “Anticipation” that she “will stay right here because these are the good old days”.

The same that happens to me now with my kids, I am definitely living in the “good old days” already. So I’ll try my best to act so I won’t regret what I am not doing, and accept will accept the regret about something that I did instead.

Personal development

• From a distance

• How to think in writing

• In job interviews, keep your backstory short

• Reality just keeps unfolding

• The people who will thrive in the AI age

• The thing that turns a workshop into an experience people actually talk about!

• Why are you in such a rush?

• Why the healthiest generation is the loneliest

Innovation

• How long will we live in the future?

• Agentic autonomy levels

• AI-driven vulnerability discovery for frontier cybersecurity

• How a 30-year-old chart explains intel’s fall, Nvidia’s rise, and DeepSeek’s disruption

• Previewing GPT-5.6 sol: a next-generation model

• Startup founders need a new sales playbook

• The science of moral decoupling

• The twilight of the chatbots

Leadership and management

• Aspiring leaders, don’t just network up

• Inside germany’s best-kept ‘New work’ secrets

• Own the outer loop

• Principles of ethical measurement in organisations

• Sagrada familia: leadership lessons in vision, mission and innovation

• The case for performance-First management

• When developing an AI strategy, beware the urgency Trap

• Why some people notice inequality and others don’t

One book

“Subtract: the untapped science of less” by Leidy Klotz.