The 4 Pillars of Leadership Success

July 12, 2024
Being a good leader can feel like an abstract goal, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are the four pillars that I believe are the foundation of effective, successful leadership.

The Download: robot-packed meals, and the looming fertility crisis

July 12, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Robot-packed meals are coming to the frozen-food aisle What’s happening: Advances in artificial intelligence are coming to your freezer, in the form of robot-assembled prepared meals. Chef Robotics, a San Francisco-based startup, has…

IVF alone can’t save us from a looming fertility crisis

July 12, 2024
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here.  I’ve just learned that July 11 is World Population Day. There are over 8 billion of us on the planet, and there’ll probably be 8.5 billion of us…