As Rita’s McGrath Thought Sparks guest Steven Brill points out, absence of accountability for content posted on social media sites, plus algorithms that favor content likely to attract eyeballs have led to an often-toxic mix of misinformation, negative speech and feelings of anger or disgust beating out more wholesome content in many corners of the Internet. Can social media site Bluesky offer an alternative?

When women first started flooding into professional workplaces in the 80’s, they faced a dilemma – what to wear? High fashion didn’t look professional. Female versions of men’s suits just seemed silly. Dresses could be too revealing, and often didn’t convey power.  Weird compromises ensued. And you know what? We’re still agonizing about women’s looks.

 Princeton is discovering its entrepreneurial mojo, and part of that is integrating the traditional concerns of entrepreneurs – can we make something new that someone will buy – with the concerns of the humanities.

Most of the time, bringing an innovation to life doesn’t work out. But sometimes, in a magical moment, product-market fit is achieved, the market responds and there is a glorious period of success. But the thing we don’t talk about much is that this very period of success contains within it the seeds of future disappointment and even irrelevance.

The theory of monopoly has to date been firmly rooted in the analog world.  Traditionally, a monopoly occurred when there was a single seller or producer and no close substitutes. With the Justice Department’s ruling that Google operates a monopoly in search, we’re in a whole new realm – one in which cognitive biases are now recognized by law.