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The expansion of AI infrastructure has significant environmental costs. Training large models can consume vast amounts of energy; generating text can use as much energy as charging a smartphone nearly four times, and generating one thousand images is equivalent to charging a smartphone 242 times! Big ideas from the book Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmare… This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

Hola! Welcome to BigIdeas. FM - we bring you conversational podcasts and sexy newsletters curated from world’s best and latest non-fiction books. Today, it’s time to Click , the latest book on startups by designer-authors who have been involved in Google ventures as well as many successful products. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bon...

One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, early for a flight, sat down at an airport bar and started talking to the woman on the barstool beside him. She was a drug sales rep for Johnson & Johnson, and her horrific story about unethical sales practices and the devastating impact they’d had on her family fundamentally changed the nature of how Harris covered the company—and the entire pharmaceutical indust...

A pioneering professor of organizational behavior turns the concept of networking on its head, arguing that we must move beyond the standard mentorship model to embrace sponsorship, where we use our social networks and political capital on behalf of others."It's not what you know, but who you know." According to conventional wisdom, our social networks are a resource to exploit, and getting ahead...

Are you working too much but feel like it's never enough? Have you turned the act of pretending you're "fine" into an art form? Does self-care feel like one more item on your already long to-do list? We've been taught that resilience is the secret to navigating life's most difficult moments. But according to New York Times bestselling author, organizational psychologist, and researcher Dr. Tasha E...

Learn how to cleanse, protect yourself from, and transmute bad vibes, regardless of their size or origin. Devin Hunter provides the support you need to face any energetic problem, whether you're a beginner or an experienced psychic. Each topic builds upon the preceding one, growing with you as you gain experience. This comprehensive book covers everything from dealing with unwanted ghosts to turni...

Mark Fabian, one of the most exhilarating thinkers working on wellbeing today, presents a revolutionary approach to understanding why there’s more to life than the pursuit of happiness. Beyond Happy explores how evolution has wired us to keep happiness just out of reach, leaving us perpetually stuck on a happiness treadmill. Instead of striving to escape it, the book argues, we should focus on mak...

Correct the power imbalances in your work and life with a science-backed practice that combines the rigor of Stoic philosophy with the relational impact of empathy. Stoicism combined with empathy may sound like a contradiction in terms. But when these seemingly opposing forces are harnessed together, they have the power to change your life. From surviving missile attacks and political oppression i...

Do you feel you’re simply going through the motions? Succeeding at work, pulling your weight at home, living an active social life . . . yet deep down, you feel drained? If so, you may be experiencing High-Functioning Depression. In the first book to uncover this new form of depression, Columbia University clinical psychologist Dr Judith Joseph draws on her personal struggles with the illness, rev...

In a chaotic, confusing, and divisive world, Debra Silverman introduces astrology as the medicine for accepting our human nature--its idiosyncrasies and dilemmas. Through an application of both therapy and astrology, this breakthrough guide equips readers with tools that release self-judgment, inner criticism, negativity, and misunderstanding. Every sign struggles with psychological issues. Unders...

Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers - especially China - threaten to unravel today's Western-led world order. Many fear this would lead to global chaos. But the West has never had a monopoly on order. Surveying five thousand years of global history, political scientist Amitav Acharya reve...

Venture capitalists manage to raise and invest trillions of dollars despite being wrong most of time through asymmetric bets – where a few big wins outsize losses by factors of 1,000x. In The Super Upside Factor , Daniel Kang draws on his experience as a venture capitalist at Softbank Vision Fund and a Y Combinator-backed founder to adapt asymmetric principles for personal and professional life. H...

Embark on a transformative journey with No Fear Networking: A Guide to Building Connections for the Socially Anxious Professional, tailored for anyone who's ever felt overwhelmed by traditional networking. Crafted by a formerly agoraphobic LinkedIn guru who became a viral sensation at 30, this guide is an essential toolkit for fostering genuine connections and opening doors to new opportunities. N...

What if you could enter any room with complete confidence, knowing just what to say and how to act, yet still be 100 percent yourself? Sound impossible? It's not! It's not even complicated. In How to Read a Room , communication expert Dr. Mike Bechtle shares his simple four-step process for accurately assessing any situation--a business meeting, a social situation, a conference, an interview--so t...

We all spend a huge amount of time trying to get people to listen to us, and despite our best efforts, we often fail. But what if the secret to influencing others was in first accepting them? This is known as validation : the act of showing someone that you understand their experience and accept it as valid .As both a means and an end, validation skills are proven to impact five key areas of our l...

Curiosity: The Secret Ingredient for Success in Personal and Professional Growth describes the ins and outs of curiosity: what it is, how it works and what it does; how it influences success for individuals and organisations, why it is hard to maintain over time and how we - and our organisations - can get (even) better at it. The book is a practical guide for professionals to help them become awa...

Cultivating a positive outlook can help you and your team embrace strengths, see opportunities instead of problems, and even feel more engaged in routine tasks. This book provides insights on how to create an environment where everyone can flourish and grow. You’ll learn about the effects of emotional contagion; how gratitude, feedback, and perspective matter; and how to establish an optimistic an...

We have never had to feed as many people as we do today. And yet, we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways. As a result, in our economic, political, and everyday choices, we take for granted and fail to prioritize the thing that makes all our lives possible: food. In this ambitious, m...

Drawing from the experiences of real-life giving circles, philanthropy leader Hali Lee challenges our traditional understanding of giving, showing how everyday people can take back philanthropy from the billionaires and make the world a better place. When you think of philanthropy, what do you envision? Uber wealthy donors? Extravagant galas? In recent decades, philanthropy has come to be seen as...

Have you ever: * Got stuck in your career? * Said 'yes, sure' when you should have said 'sorry, no'? * Tried to change someone? * Listened to your inner voice? These are all examples of habits, decisions and behaviours that will derail your efforts to build a life of success - of better decisions, career and relationships; of happier and healthier living. In his new international bestseller, Rolf...

What’s the difference... is a unique new concept for a multi book programme of popular reference and lifestyle titles. Each book will be organized around 150 paired words and ideas that explore similarities and differences between the essential terms and topics. The series will be presented as stylish paperbacks with flaps and bright, eye-catching cover designs to give it shelf appeal. The books w...

Real diversity isn’t skin deep. Over the past 100,000 years, as humans expanded into every biome on the planet, our bodies and our cultures have been fine-tuned to our local environments. Beyond the physical demands of our climate, we live our lives immersed in ideas and norms that affect what we eat, how we move and why we get sick – all of which, in turn, affect how our bodies work. As an evolut...

The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People’s Republic of China his entire life. He was 15 years old when communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, only 19 when he had his first meeting with Chairman Mao in Beijing, and 24 when he was forced to escape to India and became a leader in exile. Almost 75 years after China’s initial invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama has faced communist China’s leader...

The emotional questions we face can define our lives. If you're expecting an interaction to go wrong, that expectation can make it so. That's spiralling down. But as esteemed Stanford psychologist Greg Walton shows, when we see these questions clearly, we can answer them well. Known to social psychologists as wise interventions, these shifts in perspective can help us chart new trajectories for ou...

* Around 20% of world’s population has diabetes or is pre-diabetic. * 24.6%–26% of India's adult population has diabetes or pre-diabetes These numbers are only going to go up as we look for more instant gratification (i.e. food delivery, packaged food etc). While we fix what we consume, a new scientific study brings an interesting perspective between diabetes and …sleep. A circadian rhythm is the...