ChatGPT: ‘Great Progress or Threat’?
Quentin Toulemonde This post is the first of a 3-post series (there may be more actually, but for the time being I have only planned 3!) on the changes, positive and negative,…
2023
Running out of ‘Credit’
On Friday evening I started writing about what I perceived to be last week’s hot topic, aka Microsoft’s release of its Copilot suite powered by GPT4, which I am convinced…
SVB – It’s a perfect (mis)match
The economic news was dominated this week by the resounding bankruptcy of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a bank based, as its name may suggest, in California. More than the…
Are you ‘Fearless’?
This week’s post took an unexpected turn. Last Friday, I was indeed planning to write another post on the layoffs in tech, discussing to which extent Elon Musk’s recent decision…
Avoiding the heart attack
Although this blog is relatively recent, keen readers since Day 1 may being to understand that the link between economy and demography is features fairly high in my list of…
Fake it until you lose it
To the honour of this blog’s name, my inspiration for this week comes from a Financial Times article, discussing the tax implications of expiring staff share awards in start-ups, as…
More than a collar
Needless to say, the employment landscape has undergone major transformations over the last 3 years. The pandemic introduced remote work (for those who could manage it) coupled with supply chain…
The demographic ‘Betonamit’
Last week I finished my reading of Nouriel Roubini’s latest book, MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them – and yes, the content is…
Braking or U-turning?
After a couple of years of intensive hiring in the tech and financial services industries, we have been witnessing over the last couple of months a complete U-turn, with giants…