I’ll be honest: the first time someone tried to explain DeFi to me, I nodded along and understood roughly none of it. The problem wasn’t me — it was that they’d skipped the foundations. DeFi is three things stacked on top of each other, and if you miss one, the rest turns to mush. So […]
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May 12–23, 2026 · Cannes, France · Cinema’s most glamorous gamble Can I confess something? I love a bit of glamour that actually means something. And once a year, a small strip of French coastline delivers exactly that — where a twelve-minute standing ovation counts as restrained, and everyone dresses as though the cameras might
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May 4, 2026 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Theme: “Costume Art” Every year on the first Monday in May, the most famous people alive climb a flight of stairs in New York while the rest of us judge their outfits with the seriousness usually reserved for elections. This is the Met Gala
April 10–19, 2026 · Empire Polo Club, Indio · 200,000+ attendees · 25th anniversary Coachella turned twenty-five this year — which, in festival terms, is roughly the age at which one stops being a wild night out and becomes a fully-fledged cultural institution with strong opinions about hydration. And yet the desert still delivered. Sabrina
September 9–10, 2026 · London · Where the quants meet the question of trust There’s a particular kind of nervous energy in a room full of people who all suspect their jobs are about to change — and are far too professional to say so out loud. That’s the AI in Finance Summit: two days
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April 2026 · Bangkok, Thailand · The deal-making heart of APAC The last time I moved money the old way, there was a paper slip, a rubber stamp, and a teller who held all the power. That queue doesn’t really exist anymore. So when I stand in a hall like this one, watching money cross
It already made mass crypto transfers feel like sending a text. The next chapter — machine learning — might be the one that really turns heads. Let me tell you about the moment a crypto wallet stops being a wallet and becomes something far more interesting. Here’s my honest take: for most of crypto’s short,
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The season has arrived — and this one is packed with reasons to be somewhere extraordinary. After a year that has thrown us geopolitical drama, market volatility, and more political plot twists than a prime-time boxset, I’ll admit summer 2026 arrives feeling like genuine relief. The world isn’t fixed — it rarely is — but
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The classroom is not dead. But the old model of it certainly is. Let me guess what you’re feeling, because I suspect I’m close. A low hum of dread. The sense that some enormous machine has wandered into the room, sat down in your chair, and started doing your job faster than you ever could,
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After months of conflict and closed shipping lanes, a fragile framework has markets cautiously exhaling. Let me take you back to mid-June, to two words that briefly did what almost nothing else can — united the entire financial world in a single sigh of relief. US President Trump posted them: ‘Let the oil flow.’ Within
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