This week, I reaffirmed my belief in the power of writing down your goals and turning your dreams into vision boards.

Musician Dave Giles II had written down the goal, “be nominated for a Grammy,” and would look at it every day. Fast forward to last weekend, he shared this fun fact with me at an event celebrating his Grammy nomination for collaborating on Beyoncé’s Renaissance, which went on to win album of the year.

The final piece of advice he left me with was to remember that becoming an overnight success can take decades. His story serves as a great reminder to keep your eyes on your goals. Your future self will thank you.

- ANATOLA 🤍 

Self-Driving Cars Could Lead to Climate Crises

When we imagine the future, the media typically saturates us with images of flying cars zooming across the city skyline.

This utopian fantasy may become a reality in the next few decades, experts say. The European Union projects that by 2030, we will have a new generation of fully automated vehicles.

However, a recent MIT study has found that even fully electric self-driving cars have a major carbon emissions problem. Without radically transforming their design, autonomous vehicles could be detrimental to our environment.

The study, co-authored by Soumya Sudhakar, found that if self-driving vehicles became as popular as they are expected to be, they could generate as much greenhouse gas emissions per year as the entire output of Argentina, or around 0.14 gigatonnes.

The solution to this, says Sudhakar, is designing “more efficient autonomous vehicles that have a smaller carbon footprint from the start.”

Equitism: The Foundation of A New American City

What does a city based on equity look like? Tech billionaire Marc Lore is on a mission to find out. He is creating a city in the desert called Telosa to test a new model for society called Equitism, which addresses wealth and income inequality.

Lore is reimagining cities by including futuristic, organic skyscrapers, zooming monorails, community parks, and a public green space stretching throughout the spine of the city that will give 5 million people easy access to nature.

The team of Telosa aims to have a diverse group of 50,000 people calling the city home by 2030. It plans for its population to jump to 1 million by 2050, and 5 million by 2070.

If this experiment is successful, Equitism could be a model for other cities and could help close the gap between the rich and the poor.

Imagination Is Not Creativity

Imagination and creativity are often mistakenly considered to be the same, but there is an important difference.

Imagination deals with thoughts that are free from the confines of reality. It is like a form of organic augmented reality, projecting new ideas into our minds.

On the other hand, creativity brings these visions into the real world. In other words, creativity is needed to build the bridge designed by our imagination.

While different from one another, the two share an important thing in common: empathy. Empathy lies at the core of both creativity and imagination. Understanding this can make us happier and more productive, according to Jim Davies, author of the book Imagination: Understanding Our Mind’s Greatest Power.

Must Reads

1. ChatGPT Plus Starts at $20 per month (Tech Crunch)

2. Meta takes a loss investing in the metaverse (CNBC)

3. Architects designing surreal worlds with AI (Bloomberg)

4. Google announces ChatGPT rival will launch publically in ‘coming weeks’ (The Verge)

5. Microsoft will use OpenAI tech to write emails (Bloomberg)

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