Africa and Asia will define the future workforce of the world. Nearly half the global population today is Gen Z and Gen Alpha — with hundreds of millions of young people entering working age across Africa and Asia over the next two decades. At the same time: •⁠ ⁠youth unemployment remains critically high •⁠ ⁠informal economies are expanding •⁠ ⁠AI is accelerating •⁠ ⁠and traditional job creation is slowing. Meanwhile, many developed nations are facing the opposite problem: declining birth...

Jenni Pignatelli and Professor Mark Johnson Why Learning is Your Superpower Once upon a time, learning involved getting lost. Literally. You read the map wrong. You argued about directions. If you weren’t the driver, you got blamed for the missed turn. You tried again. You relied upon landmarks and signs. You got ‘unlost’. And somewhere in that mild frustration… you learned. Today, we follow a blue dot. No friction. No memory. No real need to understand how we got there. That trade...

Photos courtesy of Jenni Pignatelli, Elizabeth Mallet, Laurence deSegonzac and Sarah Schiff This isn’t my usual post. It’s not an interpretation, nor a synthesis of AI and the future of work. In fact, it is quite the opposite. I hadn’t realised how much exhaustion I’d been carrying over the past three years. Only when everything was set down, responsibilities relinquished, work and professional life on pause, even the academic papers on cognitive-load theory left pristinely untouched in my...