Yuval Noah Harari’s Davos address – “An Honest Conversation on AI and Humanity” – felt like stepping onto a ridge line where the air is thinner and the view is suddenly wider. You can still walk back down to the cosy valley of “AI is just a tool”… but it becomes harder to pretend you…… Continue reading When AI takes our superpower: Harari at Davos (WEF 2026)
Category: Learning Notes from the Edge
Learning Notes from the Edge is where I capture ideas at the frontier of learning -how we upskill, adapt, and stay human as AI and innovation reshape work, business, and society. Short reflections, sparked by books, talks, and lived experience, with a focus on what learning really means when the world won’t sit still.
Thrive
I’ll start with a small warning: the title is misleading. Thrive. Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI by Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose is not a wellness book. There are no lifestyle prescriptions here, no productivity and self-case rituals. What the authors are really interested in is something more structural: how AI creates value…… Continue reading Thrive
Nexus
Some books don’t try to teach you something new.They quietly rearrange how you see what you thought you already understood. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari is one of those books. I picked it up out of the same curiosity that has taken me to many places around the world: a desire to understand how humans…… Continue reading Nexus
The Pursuit
A documentary with intrepid economist and social scientist Arthur Brooks who travels around the globe in search of an answer to the question: How can we live a good life and lift up the world together, starting with those at the margins of society?
A note on fluency
The Dalai Lama’s English may be ‘broken’ and simplistic in the traditional sense of the word, yet he is able to talk about things like neuroscience, quantum physics and psychology, and capture the attention of his audience. Is he fluent in English?
The moment of discovery
“What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.” Jonas Salk
Learning and the road to knowledge …
“You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct; the world is always changing. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort – but the road to knowledge is full of joy.” Words of wisdom, by the brilliant Paulo Coelho. It caught my attention…… Continue reading Learning and the road to knowledge …
Cultures, languages and why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world
“A language […] is not merely a set of grammatical rules or a vocabulary. It is a flash of the human spirit, the vehicle by which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.”…… Continue reading Cultures, languages and why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world
Education will help humanity thrive
While machines may move quicker than us, they miss what makes our species really special: our ability to trust, cooperate, create and innovate. “If we do not change the way we teach, 30 years from now, we’re going to be in trouble,” said Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, China’s e-commerce giant at Davos 2018.…… Continue reading Education will help humanity thrive
Gabriella Ferenczi 