His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik sends a cable of congratulations to Her Excellency President Iliana Yotova, on the occasion of her election as President of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Is it rude when someone takes out their phone in a meeting and starts scrolling? Maybe. But it’s also feedback. It could be a sign that the meeting is boring. I love this take from @bingfish, co-founder of @EA and co-author, with his daughter Chloe Gordon, of Everybody Wins: What Games Teach Us About Making Products People Love. As someone who believes in asking “do we really need this meeting?” (and if the answer is yes, “can we make it 15 minutes instead of 30?”), I love Bing’s way of thinking. We’ve all been in meetings that lack a “wow” factor. Bing’s suggestion is to get creative. Try things out. Stand up, walk out of the room, and walk back in 30 seconds later and start over. And give yourself permission to ask: “If this wasn’t a business meeting, how would you uplevel this?” As he told @thrive's Erica Eliot, most people don’t even think they have the “right” to make meetings better. What’s one way you can uplevel your meetings?

During my interview with @DanielaAmodei, president of @AnthropicAI, I asked how AI can nurture human connections, especially when social media has in so many ways left us more disconnected from ourselves and each other. I loved her examples of how AI could empower doctors and teachers, two professions where human qualities and relationships matter so much, and how “in the future we might optimize for doctors who have a great bedside manner.”