Simon Kuestenmacher
Columnist at The New Daily
German #geographer and #demographer in #Melbourne. I curate #maps and #data that explain how the #world works. Obviously all opinions are my own...
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1 week ago |
thenewdaily.com.au | Simon Kuestenmacher
This week I’ve been beside myself with joy because one of my favourite global datasets was finally updated. The UN Population Division finally released its 2024 international migrant stock data. I will milk this dataset for future columns, but today we simply look at the top-level distribution of migrants around the world and philosophise about freedom. We start with a simple question about migrants to, and migrants from, Australia.
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2 weeks ago |
thenewdaily.com.au | Simon Kuestenmacher
Australia has a multitude of comeback stories – our America’s Cup victory, Steven Bradbury’s miracle on ice, even John Howard’s political resurrection. Jimmy Barnes launched a successful solo career after leaving Cold Chisel and overcame addiction and health struggles (mostly he is included here so I can point you to an old column about him). I’d argue we’re about to see another unexpected comeback – online piracy.
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3 weeks ago |
thenewdaily.com.au | Simon Kuestenmacher
Helicopter parenting – the tendency for parents to hover over every aspect of their children’s lives – has been on the rise for decades. Mums and dads today devote far more time to child-rearing than parents did a few decades ago. In many Western countries, parents now spend about 50 per cent more time interacting with their children than in the 1970s. In the US, this amounts to an extra 105 minutes each day of parent-child time compared to the ’70s norm.
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1 month ago |
thenewdaily.com.au | Simon Kuestenmacher
I’m 41 now, when I first read Carl Jung’s famous quote below I was in my teens. I always liked the idea of life improving, becoming more interesting when you age. “Life really begins at 40. Until then, you are just doing research”. Carl Jung, 1875-1961 Most of your abilities don’t peak in your early years as I pointed out in a previous column. Jung, the famous Swiss psychologist, believed that human life unfolds in two halves. Each half has its own important purpose.
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1 month ago |
thenewdaily.com.au | Simon Kuestenmacher
When I am not busy writing columns for you, I travel around Australia where I explain at conferences what an industry, region, or company looks like through the demographic lens. I speak at well over 100 of such events each year and these days two topics are always on the agenda – AI and mental health. Two-and-a-half years ago I wrote a column on mental health based on Census 2021 data available to us.
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It’s about to get serious again. Map shows the average start of the monsoon season. https://t.co/7guH0vsPTc
As I said (tongue in cheek) in the past, the high school subject that best prepare you for the AI heavy Future of Work aren’t the STEM subjects but Drama/Theatre. An AI future requires humans to be hyper human in their skills. That’s interpersonal communication, compassion, and
🚨 BigTech jobs have ZERO growth in the last 3yrs. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir - the biggest tech employers have collectively stagnated headcount, data shows. This is why CS majors can’t get jobs. Bigtech hypergrowth era is over. Here's why: 1/4 https://t.co/oEBNZl3mSU
RT @simongerman600: Why are cars manufactured in China cheaper than cars produced in Germany? https://t.co/8riPUzEkvQ