A 2×2 Matrix to Help You Prioritize the Skills to Learn Right Now | Baby Bust: Could Population Decline Spell the End of Economic Growth? | How to Stay Focused When You’re Working from Home | Sam Bankman-Fried’s Way to Win

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A 2×2 Matrix to Help You Prioritize the Skills to Learn Right Now - Harvard Business Review

The modern worker has very little time for learning, and yet continuous learning is vital for anyone who wants to maintain their edge. There’s a significant pressure on us all to learn the right stuff, but how do we identify what that is? A time-utility analysis can help you decide what to prioritize. By examining how useful a skill should be, and how much time it would take you to learn, you can plot various skills on a 2×2 matrix: stuff that’s easy to learn and really useful is a clear quick win, while you’ll have to carve out more time for useful skills that take some time to learn. And for those truly useless things? Think about how much time you can afford to invest in them, and then learn as you can — or just move on with your life.

The world is bursting with learning. There are several million business books, 3,000 TED talks, 10,000 MOOCs, hundreds of thousands of e-learning courses, and millions of self-published articles on platforms such as LinkedIn and Medium. The article you’re reading right now is just one of thousands of articles on HBR.org. Picking the best and most relevant from all this is hard.

Yet it’s essential. The modern worker has very little time for learning — less than 1% of their time, according to Bersin, a division of Deloitte. And it’s more important than ever to learn continuously as the shelf life of skills shorten and career paths meander and lengthen.

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Baby Bust: Could Population Decline Spell the End of Economic Growth? - Stanford Graduate School of Business

Economists’ models assume the population will keep expanding forever. But what if it doesn’t?

The unprecedented prosperity of the past century is driving the shift toward smaller families. | Alvaro Dominguez

At the stroke of midnight on November 21, a newborn somewhere in the world became the eight-billionth person. This milestone came at a demographic turning point: The planet’s population is still expanding, but its growth rate is the lowest it’s been in more than 70 years. If current trends continue, the United Nations predicts that by the early 22nd century, the population will stabilize — and then start to shrink.

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How to Stay Focused When You’re Working from Home - Harvard Business Review

When you’re working from home, you can easily be distracted by household chores, personal priorities, and even friends and family. To focus more effectively, you need to set boundaries. Here are some tips for how you can make remote work more productive and satisfying, whether it’s an everyday occurrence or an occasional day away from the office. Establish working hours. Create “office hours,” and limit all non-work-related tasks to before or after this time. Structure your day for success. Establish a meeting-free day, or at least reserve half a day for focused work. Then define one to two key items that you want to accomplish during this time. Set boundaries with others. Explain to friends, family, and other acquaintances that the days you’re working remotely aren’t opportunities for non-work-related activities and that any errands or conversations should take place after work or on a lunch break. As you consistently communicate and live by these expectations, other people will begin to expect them, and you’ll find yourself having more time for focused work.

No commute. No drive-by meetings. No dress code. Remote working can seem like a dream — until personal obligations get in the way. These distractions are easy to ignore in an office, but at home it can be difficult to draw the line between personal and professional time.

Consider when you’re working on a project and get a call from a friend. You know you need to finish your work, but you feel rude for not talking when you technically could. Or think about when you’re planning your daily to-do list, but also need to decide when you’ll squeeze in your personal commitments. Taking the time to put a few loads of laundry in the washer midday can seem like a quick task — until you find yourself making up that work time late at night. In the end, it’s never entirely clear when you’re really “on” or “off.”

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Way to Win - Intelligencer

Since November 11, 2022, the day that Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX collapsed and his hedge fund Alameda Research collapsed and his personal $26 billion turned out to have been vaporous, the twitchy 31-year-old, maybe-genius, maybe-scammer failed to raise $8 billion to save the company, gave a lot of weird interviews denying he did anything intentionally wrong, tried to blame his ex, was charged with eight counts of fraud and conspiracy, spent a week in a Bahamian jail, had enough of that, got extradited to the U.S., pleaded not guilty in New York, moved in with his parents in California on a $250 million bond, got accused of witness tampering, talked with Michael Lewis, got yelled at by a judge for violating bail terms to watch the Super Bowl, witnessed his former executives flip on him, started a Substack, got hit with four more charges, gave interviews to the rest of the journalists he hadn’t already gotten around to, successfully got a charge on illegal campaign contributions dropped on a technicality, got charged with another count of bribing Chinese officials, had a few charges separated to a different criminal suit, leaked his ex’s diary, got incarcerated again on the grounds that he “attempted to tamper with two witnesses,” complained about not getting his food or medicine while in jail (fair), complained about not having enough computer time in jail (ehhhhh), and got personally sued about three dozen times in the federal courts.

At last, his trial starts on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. It is expected to last about six weeks. He is being judged here on seven charges concerning financial fraud. He faces more than 100 years in jail.

On the Thursday before the trial began, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers tried one more time to get their client out of jail. The judge is Lewis L. Kaplan — who, in a weird coincidence, will make his second appearance in the Court Appearances newsletter, having presided over the E. Jean Carroll trial. He took this last-ditch appeal in a relatively small but handsome wood-paneled courtroom on the 21st floor of 500 Pearl Street, rather than a larger ceremonial courtroom with more marble and greater seating.

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