Tag: Kara Swisher

Replied to Opinion | Be Paranoid About Privacy (nytimes.com)

We need to take back our privacy from tech companies — even if that means sacrificing convenience.

I really like your point about being sloppy Kara.

We’re digitally sloppy, even if it can be very dangerous, as evidenced by a disturbing New York Times story this week about an Emirati secure messaging app called ToTok, which is used by millions across the Middle East and has also recently become one of the most downloaded in the United States.

This is what I was trying to touch upon in my post on being better informed.

I think the challenge is that there is always more that we can do. I guess something is better than nothing.

Listened How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not from Recode

Boston University professor Ellen Shell talks about her new book The Job on the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher.

Ellen Shell discusses the state of work in America today. Something Martin Ford also discuses in Rise of the Robots. She argues that educating our way out of the current situation only creates a hopeless situation. Interestingly, Shell pushes back on the ‘end of average’ argument and instead suggests that we need to encourage a broad educational starting point with a focus on analysis.

There are plenty of people with STEM skills. What social scientists have found just in recent years is what kids lack are what they call analytic skills. That is not problem-solving per se, but knowing what problems to solve.

Our focus should not be on job training, but instead training students to be able to learn on the job. This all feels a part of the move ‘back to basics‘.