Recommended Reading and My Reuters Pic of the Week
A child cleans melted candle wax from a grave a day before All Saints' Day. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

Recommended Reading and My Reuters Pic of the Week

Welcome back to my recommended reading list, with pieces this week?on?the big brands stoking cement kilns with plastic waste, a new course exploring what AI means for our world and why employees want autonomy--not just flexibility.?This week’s picture, by photojournalist Eloisa Lopez, shows a child cleaning melted candle wax from an apartment-style grave at Manila South Cemetery a day before the nationwide cemetery closure during All Saints' Day, in Manila, Philippines, on October 28, 2021.

?Read on for this week's picks...?

Trash and Burn

Consumer goods giants are funding projects to send plastic trash to cement plants, where it is burned as cheap energy. They’re touting it as a way to keep plastic out of dumps and use less fossil fuel. Critics say it undercuts recycling efforts and worsens air quality. One said it was “like moving the landfill from the ground to the sky.”

What does artificial intelligence mean for our world?

A new course at McMaster University is exploring the societal implications of AI.

Forget Flexibility. Your Employees Want Autonomy.

For organizations looking to remain competitive in the hybrid future, enabling and empowering employee autonomy will be the single most important enabler of flexibility.

Take Five: It's now or never

This weekly piece lays out five big themes likely to dominate the thinking of investors and traders in the coming week.?

Sudan coup: Why the army is gambling with the future

Gen Burhan claims he is keeping the transition to democracy on track - and has promised a technocratic civilian government and elections in two years.

Bryce Harper voted National League Player of the Year by his peers

Phillies slugger Bryce Harper has claimed one of baseball's prestigious individual awards.

Michael Friedenberg is the President of Reuters News. He was previously CEO of IDG Communications and President of CXO Media. Michael is a voracious reader with a particular interest in the news and publishing industries, digital transformation and all things Philly...?

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