12 of My Favorite Blog Articles to Inspire You for the New Year
Hi,
Happy New Year! What an exciting time to build a better, healthier, more sustainable future with changemakers like you!
To kickstart 2025, I’ve curated 12 of my blog posts from 2024 that I’m particularly proud of. They showcase the issues and stories that motivate me, from navigating a tech-enabled future, to space exploration and its impact on Earth, to the power of learning from Nature to transform industries. All these posts focus on building a sustainable future with humanity’s superpowers: creativity, resilience, collaboration, and hope.
Twelve articles is quite a lot! That’s why I’d love for you to hold onto this newsletter, so you can keep coming back to it whenever you need inspiration to rise to your next challenge. Consider this my gift to you—a resource to empower your journey this year. 😊
I hope that you enjoy reading these articles as much as I enjoyed writing them! Here’s to exploring, learning, and building what’s next—together.
Building a Human-Centered, Tech-Enabled Future
💡Blog 1: Why People Matter in the Age of AI
Technological innovation is delivering amazing things, with far more to come. But every step of the way, we must place people at the center of what we do. Dignity matters. Agency matters. Wellbeing matters. Hope matters. | Read more here.
💡 Blog 2: Health Meets Tech: Building a Future that Prioritizes Patient Care
AI and robotics are NOT replacements for humans! By mindfully designing and deploying tech, we can help improve both outcomes and the lived experience of healthcare, for patients as well as for healthcare workers. | Read more here.
💡Blog 3: How Using AI Can Increase Cognitive Work and Support Better Brain Health
Could it be that robots and algorithms might actually improve human health? The answer may be yes—but not if we’re using tech to replace people. Instead, we should use automation and AI to relieve workers of routine, repetitive tasks so that they can focus on things that (ro)bots can’t do. | Read more here.
💡Blog 4: What Human Evolution Can Teach Us About Tech Evolution
The true magic might happen when AI systems integrate advanced cognition with sophisticated dexterity. Think of a robot that can brainstorm innovative solutions and then execute them in the physical world. But we need to bias the future toward ethical and responsible uses of physical AI, along with broad accessibility.| Read more here.
Space Exploration for the Benefit of Earth
💡Blog 5: Space, Innovation, & Collaboration: Key Insights from the Space Futures Workshop
People, not technology, are going to decide what kind of future humanity experiences off Earth. Which means if you’re interested in a space future that’s peaceful, prosperous, sustainable, and awe-inspiring, now is the time to lean in! | Read more here.
💡Blog 6: Stellar Solutions: How Space Exploration Promotes Peace and Progress on Earth
You’re already reaping the benefits of decades of space-based advances in your daily life. Think GPS, weather forecasting, cellular networks, and, well, just about anything involving the internet. Much more is possible. | Read more here.
💡Blog 7: All are Welcome in the Future of Space
Sure, we focus on astronauts and engineers. But our future off Earth will benefit from including perspectives and expertise from other industries, too. We need healthcare workers, roboticists, electricians, teachers, artists, coders, policymakers, communicators, coaches, and many more people with diverse areas of expertise. | Read more here.
Biotech and Bio-Inspired Insights
💡Blog 8: How Understanding A Bit About Wool Can Make You A Better Leader
Evolution didn’t “optimize” wool in the sense that only strong or permanent structures evolved through natural selection. Rather, in wool we once again see the natural world hedging its bets—favoring resilience over perfection in the face of an uncertain future. | Read more here.
💡Blog 9: Tasting the Future of Food: A Bite into SciFi Foods' CellAg Burger
Thanks to biotechnology and other exponential technologies, innovators around the world are coming up with new sources of nutritious, sustainable, and yes, delicious food. | Read more here.
Catalyzing a Sustainable Future: A Blog Series on Antarctica, with Dr. Mark Brandon
💡Blog 10: Antarctica Is Changing, and So Must We
If we were to, for example, stop our emissions now, Antarctica is still going to be changing for another, perhaps, 200 years. What we can do is change the rate of change, and the longer-term trajectory, and that's the issue. (excerpt from an interview with polar expert, Dr. Mark Brandon) | Read more here.
💡Blog 11: How Tech (and Business) Can Help Antarctica—And Our Future
When we see stories in the media, it's very sexy to see a story with something really obvious like A23, an iceberg bigger than the size of Hawaii. Measuring things like icebergs the size of Hawaii is easy. Smaller icebergs are harder, but that's a tractable problem. It really is. (excerpt from an interview with polar expert, Dr. Mark Brandon) | Read more here.
💡Blog 12: Sustainable Futures: Resilience and Courage Required
I journeyed to Antarctica not as a tourist, but as part of a community of women and nonbinary people in STEMM determined to serve as leaders in a complex, dynamic, and often terrifying world. I witnessed a fragile ecosystem that was vanishing as I watched it. And I came home determined to share what I’ve learned with people like you. | Read more here.
Whew! Now that’s a wrap to help us roll up our sleeves for 2025. Which blog article resonated with you most? I’d love to know!
I hope these articles inspire you to take bold steps, embrace new ideas, and build a future that reflects our shared values of innovation, sustainability, and human potential. Cheers to you this 2025 and beyond!
Be voracious,
Tiffany
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