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Fast Fashion

Apparel makes up nearly half of Taobao’s sales volume due to an insatiable demand for new fashion. Enter Cui Yue, known professionally as Pin’er. A poster child for the gig economy, Pin’er is hired not only on her looks, but for her proven track record for driving online sales. This offbeat video by Shanghai-based photographer and filmmaker Noah Sheldon, follows Pin’er through a fairly typical 13-hour work day as she models over a hundred and fifty outfits.

→ Check out Noah Sheldon’s full series on work in modern China

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May I Have Your Attention, Please?

The economics of attention are an increasingly sharp investment—so long as you’re on the right side of the equation.

Speaking My Language

Into the vacuum left by Brazil’s broken lending and education systems step young, low-income YouTubers who make financial literacy fun. 

How Do You Quantify Climate Risk?

The world’s leading investors agree it’s a factor. A climate change journalist checks their accounting.

Sexism is Built into the Algorithm

Sex sells. Unless it’s women’s sexual pleasure. Then, suddenly, everyone’s a prude.

A Radical Proposal

The Radical x Change movement asks: What if we spent votes like we spend money?

Playing Debt

Educational software is making kids Grade A consumers. But it’s missing the opportunity to teach them about money.

Could US Immigration Policies Force Out the Next Google?

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people apply for one of the 65,000 visas available to for-profit companies, which are doled out via a random lottery system.

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to the Galaxy

From satellite constellations to asteroid mining, trillions of dollars are up for grabs in the new space race.

Winance

Finance, like wine, is fairly straightforward. The complexity comes when people get involved.

How Big Data is Changing Science

New biomedical techniques are leading to unimaginable breakthroughs and leaving researchers racing to keep up.

Is My Algorithm Paranoid?

Carl Jung once suggested that in every sane man hides a lunatic. As our algorithms become more like ourselves, it is getting easier to hide.

Silicon Valley Thinks Everyone Feels the Same Six Emotions

From Alexa to self-driving cars, emotion-detecting technologies are becoming ubiquitous—but they rely on out-of-date science.

Revamping Parental Leave

Finding work-life balance while toiling in the modern office remains a challenge—especially in the United States, the only developed nation in the world that does not require paid family leave.

Hacking the AI Game

There are immediate challenges that need to be addressed if AI technology is going to be harnessed in an ethical, responsible way.

When Symmetry Gets Interesting

Symmetry has the unusual distinction that it is fundamental both to the way the world works and to the extent to which we are capable of understanding it.

Divide, Conquer: On Girls and Math

The trouble with math is not, after all, the equations, or the computations. It’s the feelings it engenders.

A.I.’s Beautiful Mind

Can AlphaGo teach us anything substantive about financial markets? The principles of the financial markets are more qualitative and mysterious than games. Still, there are rules. And parameters. And these can be learned.

Poetry As Public Private Performance Art

Space is at a premium in the subway. Ads are a reality. So why are we all so bent out of shape over the PolicyGenius ads?

It’s All About Reputation Now

The greater the amount of information that circulates, the more we rely on so-called reputational devices to evaluate it.

When Your Job Defines You

From company towns to the gig economy, ways of thinking about our relationship with work are shifting.

The Warped Recipes of Algorithms

Algorithms should not be allowed to fail quietly. Promises of a better future need to be accompanied, or preceded, by promises of better algorithmic recipes.

Safeguarding Our Digital Identity

In the struggle to maintain control over personal data, we often sacrifice sovereignty for convenience.

The Fallacy of Meritocracy

Corporations, non-profits, governments, universities and even preschools test, score and hire the best. This all but guarantees not creating the best team.

A Philosopherʼs Guide to Hacking Finance

For technology to keep up, it has to think like a person again.

Too Clever By Half

Coyotes can change the world. Coyotes WILL change the world. But not if they misplay the meta-game. Not if they hang out with raccoons.

Why Philosophy is So Important in Science Education

It is no wonder that some of my students are doubtful that philosophers have anything useful to say about science.

The Ethics of Immortality Technology

Immortality has gone secular. Unhooked from the realm of gods and angels, it’s now the subject of serious investment—both intellectual and financial—by philosophers, scientists and the Silicon Valley set.