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Leadership Lessons from Penguins: What Penguins Can Teach Us About Shared, Patient, and Future-focused Leadership
What can penguins teach us about leadership? In this reflective guest article, Dr. Anna Frebel shares lessons from penguins in Antarctica on patience, shared responsibility, and leading with a long-term view.
What Mars Strategy Can Teach Us About Building Better Systems on Earth
What does Mars strategy reveal about innovation, systems thinking, and resilient organizations? This article explores lessons leaders can apply to build stronger systems on Earth.
Bespoke Biotech? A Dog, a Diagnosis, and a Radical Experiment with AI
Discover how a data scientist used AI to design a bespoke cancer vaccine for his dog. This article explores the shift toward participatory biology and what it means for the future of medicine.
When Science (Fiction) Is Human: Reflections on Project Hail Mary
Reflections on the book-turned-blockbuster Project Hail Mary. This piece explores why relationships may be key to solving complex scientific challenges and shaping a more hopeful future.
Once We Were Glaciers
A reflective and thought-provoking guest essay by glaciologist Ximena Aguilar Vega, exploring our deep, often forgotten connection to glaciers. This piece invites us to rethink how we relate to the natural world and what it truly means to protect it.
Why This AI Moment Matters: Building Positive Futures Together Starts Now
Why does this AI moment matter? Discover why the choices we make today will shape positive futures for decades.
The Mars Society Journey: Analogs, Bold Conversations, and the Futures We Are Building
What can living in a Mars simulation teach us about being human? This article is a reflection piece on how space conversations, community, and emerging technologies are shaping the futures we’re building on Earth and beyond.
A Thanksgiving I’ll Never Forget
Discover how a Thanksgiving in Antarctica becomes a core memory of gratitude, culture, and surprising snake stories that highlight the heart of science and leadership.
Exploring What a Green Mars Could Mean, For Mars and Earth
What would it take to make Mars more welcoming for life? And what might those answers mean for Earth? This article shares some of the insights, challenges, and opportunities, and why “greening Mars” may help us think differently about our home planet.
Can You Retire On Mars?
Can space become the next frontier of personal choice, much like migration or retirement today? This article explores how lessons from Antarctica can guide thoughtful tourism and living beyond Earth.
Book Recommendation: The Venture Mindset by Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang
What you can learn from the way venture capitalists think? The Venture Mindset by Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang offers a 9-part framework that looks at how investors spot potential and lead through uncertainty. This book isn’t about becoming a VC. It’s about getting curious about how they think, and borrowing what works.
What If Your Gut Could Speak Louder Than Your Resumé?
Are you ready for a biotech-driven future? This short speculative fiction co-written with leading microbiome researcher Dr. KC Huang (and a little help from AI), examines the ethical crossroads of biotech, AI, and data.
Book Recommendation: The Universe in Verse by Maria Popova
What happens when science and poetry intersect? This book review of Maria Popova’s The Universe in Verse explores how science and poetry can help us stay wonder-smitten with reality.
How Should We Prioritize AI Opportunities in Healthcare?
AI is booming in healthcare, but how do we know which tools are really worth our trust and investment? This article explores the High-Value AI Funnel, a simple framework to separate hype from high-value solutions.
Four Continents, Four Conversations: Lessons on Building Futures
This article explores reflections and questions after a global speaking tour in Mexico, Colombia, Italy, and the UAE. Perspectives of each community were different, but all were deeply human.
The Case of One Baby, “Three Parents”
What’s the science behind the “one baby, three parents” headline? What big, bold questions should we be asking? This article explores the science, ethics, and big questions this breakthrough raises about the future we’re building together.
How to Prepare Your Kids for the Future—Revisited for the Age of AI
How are you preparing your kids (and yourself) for the world of tomorrow? The road ahead is going to be radically different from today. This article explores two essential lessons to future-prepare children for the challenges (and opportunities!) that lie ahead.
What Global Leaders Need to Understand About AI, SynBio, and Building Better Futures
How should leaders show up for the future? Reflections from the Kearney CEO Retreat: navigating a multipolar world, preparing for biotech and AI convergence, and choosing to show up even in times of uncertainty.
Lessons from Cartagena: Connecting with 1,000+ Changemakers, Harnessing AI, and Building a Hopeful Future of Health
What kind of healthcare future are we building? This article explores how AI can support more human-centered, equitable, and climate-aware systems of healthcare.
What’s Next for (Open)AI? A Fireside Chat with Sam Altman
How do you think AI will impact the way we live, work, and lead in the years ahead? In a fireside chat at the G42 Supercharged Summit, Sam Altman explored what it means to move from tool to infrastructure, and how we align the systems we're building with long-term human values.