My brain is changing.  As many of you know, about seven years ago, in my mid-40s, I had breast cancer. Six months later, after several rounds of chemo and radiotherapy, I am clear. The only overt reminder is the pill I take every morning. But there’s another reminder that I notice now and again, and that is that my brain feels different.  About a year after my treatment, I saw my surgeon and explained that I felt like I’d lost about 30% of my brain power. I switched medicatio

Power, data, and imbalance. This month I’ve been struck by how unevenly the benefits of technology and growth are distributed — between nations, between systems, and sometimes within ourselves. From the rise of “embodied AI” in China to the deepening digital divide across the Global South, and from new thinking on growth to the psychology of loss and change — here are my October insights. What I’ve learned about the context Friedrich Merz, Germany’s Chancellor, noted that reg