Cristian

“RBS is investing tens of millions of pounds in Bó, which is positioned firmly in the personal banking space and aims to compete head-on with the likes of Monzo, a three-year-old digital bank which already has over a million customers. Named after the Danish word for ‘to stay’, Bó aims to help customers manage their finances better, for example by alerting them to better deals from utility companies. RBS reportedly intends to shift around 1 million of its roughly 17 million UK retail customers onto the Bó platform after the launch, believing such cannibalisation is preferable to losing customers to rival fintech brands.”
― Ian Fraser, Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain

“Perhaps, very soon, we will learn that Iranian and Russian trolls are bouncing the president’s messages around social media echo chambers. But even if they are, they are getting drowned out by real Americans. If the goal of Putin’s 2016 interference was to sow chaos and undermine democracy, then what is now playing out is beyond his wildest dreams.”
― Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

“The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in war.”
― David Robinson, The Substance of Leadership: A Practical Framework for Effectively Leading a High-Performing Team

“One probable near-term outcome of AI and a through-line in all three of the scenarios is the emergence of what I’ll call a “personal data record,” or PDR. This is a single unifying ledger that includes all of the data we create as a result of our digital usage (think internet and mobile phones), but it would also include other sources of information: our school and work histories (diplomas, previous and current employers); our legal records (marriages, divorces, arrests); our financial records (home mortgages, credit scores, loans, taxes); travel (countries visited, visas); dating history (online apps); health (electronic health records, genetic screening results, exercise habits); and shopping history (online retailers, in-store coupon use). In China, a PDR would also include all the social credit score data described in the last chapter.”
― Amy Webb, The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity