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What I’ve learned from conversations I didn’t want to have

Leadership, silence, and the conversations that matter

— Geley Norbu, Director General, National Land Commission, Thimphu, Bhutan

When Job Searching Feels Tough

What I’ve learned about managing uncertainty, staying connected, and keeping perspective along the way

— Shabana Ansari, Senior Policy Analyst, Employment and Social Development Ottawa, ON, Canada

Off Target: The Growing Gap Between Climate Pledges and Reality

An overview of the gap between climate commitments and temperature targets

— Govind Shah, Apolitical Research Fellow for Public Impact and MSc student, King’s College London, UK

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Announcing the Neurodiversity #AMA this week

This week, 9-13 February, I’ll be answering your questions in the Neurodiversity community.

— Erika Pappas, Corporate Records Business Lead, City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

This week’s writing challenge: Trim the repeats ✂️

This week’s challenge is to streamline a paragraph that says the same thing several times, in slightly different ways.

— Apolitical's Writing Assistant

Artificial General Intelligence: Is anyone worried?

Is anyone else starting to feel that preventing uncontrolled AGI development should be a top global priority?

— Ian Cable, Executive Correspondence Officer, Environment Agency, Bristol, UK

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The Central Bank of Kenya has warned citizens that they could be imprisoned for making Valentine's bouquets out of banknotes. Popularised by online influencers, rolling cash into flowers for a romantic gift falls under defacement of currency and can carry a prison sentence of up to seven years.