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Network Capital

Network Capital’s (NC) mission is to democratize inspiration and make personalized mentoring and career guidance accessible to every person on the planet. We are a global community of more than 200,000 peer mentors from 104 countries who learn with and from each other. We are a subscription based career content and mentoring community 1. Serve as your personalized career coach in the form of global tribe of mentors. No matter what you are looking for, someone on Network Capital has done it. 2. Offer carefully curated jobs and internships 3. Access to Network Capital TV and all subgroups

  1. 1h ago

    Should university admissions be determined solely by examination performance, or should they assess the applicant as a whole?

    Harvard's holistic admissions system emerged in the 1920s, in part to reduce the number of Jewish students who had excelled under an examination-based system. "Character" and "fit" became the language through which discrimination could be exercised. That history remains the strongest argument for examinations: anyone with access to the syllabus and sufficient preparation can, in principle, compete on equal terms, and what the paper cannot see cannot be turned against the candidate. Yet examinations are difficult to defend as the sole criterion for admission. A few hours on a single day can determine a student's future, while late bloomers, unconventional thinkers, and those whose abilities are not easily captured by timed tests are overlooked. Nor are examinations immune to inequality. Years of expensive coaching can meaningfully improve performance, sustaining an industry built on converting financial resources into higher scores. Holistic admissions try to capture what exams miss: curiosity, resilience, creativity, leadership, and potential. But they also rely on subjective judgement. Essays, interviews, recommendations, and extracurricular activities are difficult to evaluate consistently, and many of the experiences that make an application stand out, from research internships to international volunteering, can be bought just as coaching for entrance exams can. What is a university for? Is it an institution that identifies those who are already exceptional, or one that cultivates potential?

  2. 5d ago

    How Norwegian Member of Parliament Himanshu Gulati Built His Category of One

    Himanshu Gulati is an Indian-origin Norwegian politician from the Progress Party and a member of the Storting representing Akershus. Known for his work in education, foreign affairs, and defense, he has built a reputation as a sharp and disciplined voice in Norwegian politics. He currently serves in leadership roles on the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Enlarged Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. Gulati first rose to national prominence as one of Norway’s youngest political figures, later becoming the youngest state secretary in the Solberg government, and he remains one of the country’s most recognizable Indian-origin public figures.

  3. Jul 6

    The Rise of AI Will Be Good for the Creative Arts?

    In 2007, as user-generated content was upending media, Barry Diller declared that "the truth is there isn't that much talent to go around." Big audiences, he insisted, belonged to trained professionals. The two decades since have complicated that claim. YouTube built a creative economy larger than Hollywood's, and it did so by ignoring the gatekeepers Diller defended. Now AI has reopened the argument with sharper edges. This episode stages that argument in full. On one side, the claim that AI dismantles the last remaining barriers. A filmmaker without a studio, a composer without an orchestra, a novelist without an agent can now produce work that once required institutional backing, and the biggest beneficiaries are creators the old system excluded, whether by geography, class, or connection. On the other side, the charge that AI produces slop at industrial scale, that content overload buries good work under infinite mediocre work, and that a technology trained on artists' uncompensated labour cannot plausibly be their liberator. Cheaper tools may widen access while narrowing the odds that anything breaks through. The question underneath is the one Diller raised. Either talent is genuinely rare, in which case flooding the world with tools changes little, or talent was always abundant and merely gatekept, in which case AI is the largest creative enfranchisement in history.

  4. Jun 30

    The Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science with All Souls College, Oxford Fellow Nuno Castel-Branco

    Dr Nuno Castel-Branco is a Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He completed his Ph.D. in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 2021 after earning a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Physics at the University of Lisbon.  Previously, he worked as a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti in Florence and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His first book, The Traveling Anatomist: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science was published by the University of Chicago Press in October 2025.  Dr Castel-Branco's research has been generously supported by institutions such as the Fulbright Program, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Royal Society and, more recently, the John Fell Fund from the University of Oxford. His writing has also appeared in publications such as Isis, Renaissance Quarterly and Annals of Science, as well as in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Scientific American. Substack "Stories of Science" https://nunocastelbranco.substack.com/Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/Traveling-Anatomist-Nicolaus-Intersection-Disciplines/dp/0226842290

    The Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science with All Souls College, Oxford Fellow Nuno Castel-Branco

  5. Jun 25

    Is Space Exploration Still a Pipe Dream?

    Space is back at the centre of economic and geopolitical conversations. Over the past few years, SpaceX has become one of the most important technology companies in the world, Starlink has reached millions of users, and Starship has opened a new debate about what becomes possible next. In this episode, Dhruva speaks with Utkarsh and takes a slightly different approach from the podcast’s usual debate format. Rather than arguing a position, Dhruva plays the role of an interested sceptic and asks questions to explore one central idea: are we at the beginning of a new era in the space economy? The conversation begins with why space is suddenly attracting so much attention again. It then turns to SpaceX and the economics of access to space, asking what bottlenecks have existed in the past and what new technologies are making possible now. From there, the discussion widens to the business model of space itself, including three possible paths for the sector: colonising space, using space as a resource, and generating technological spillovers that create value on Earth. The episode also explores the geopolitical question, including the relationship between private companies and governments, and the risks that come with an increasingly strategic space domain. It closes with a broader historical question about what would need to happen for us to say that SpaceX truly changed the course of history.

  6. May 10

    Book Discussion with 'Lean Spark' Authors Jaideep Prabhu, Priyank Narayan, Mukesh Sud

    India is entering a decade where ingenuity under constraint will decide who leads and who falls behind. LeanSpark shows how India’s ‘high-tech jugaad’ is turning scarcity into an innovation superpower—across drones and EVs, fintech and AI, sports, space and public policy. It distils a decade of research and fieldwork into a practical playbook for doing more with less, and for doing it at scale. This book will help you: Build frugal, high-tech ventures that start small but scale smart, using the LeanSpark attributes of lean execution, purposeful simplicity, adaptive scalability and systemic sustainability.Design products, services and policies that are affordable, resilient and environmentally conscious—without sacrificing ambition or quality.Apply the Frugal Innovation Canvas (FIC) to turn constraints into launchpads, whether you are in a start-up, large company, social enterprise or government.Learn from real stories: from drones transforming sports broadcasting and DPIs reshaping finance, to ISRO’s space missions and India’s frugal AI revolution.Translate India’s frugal ingenuity into frameworks you can use in any country facing limits of capital, infrastructure or climate. Order Book https://www.amazon.in/dp/0143480618

    Book Discussion with 'Lean Spark' Authors Jaideep Prabhu, Priyank Narayan, Mukesh Sud

  7. May 9

    Understanding the Space Economy with Harvard Business School Professor Matthew Weinzierl

    Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 2022 through 2025, he served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program at HBS, where he also teaches courses on economic policy and the space sector. His research focuses on the optimal design of economic policy, in particular taxation, with an emphasis on better understanding the philosophical principles underlying policy choices, and on the commercialization of the space sector and its economic implications. Prior to completing his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 2008, Professor Weinzierl served as the Staff Economist for Macroeconomics on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and worked in the New York office of McKinsey & Company.   Professor Weinzierl has written on a range of topics in optimal taxation and optimal economic policy more generally. His work in Positive Optimal Tax Theory has focused on identifying and formalizing the goals for tax policy that hold sway among the public, political and economic leaders, and leading tax thinkers, and then characterizing the implications of using those objectives in the analysis of optimal taxation. Professor Weinzierl currently serves as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He previously served as Senior Associate Dean, Chair of the MBA Program and as Chair of the MBA Required Curriculum (RC). Prior to those positions, he was the coursehead for Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE), an RC course, and Chair of MBA Community Standards and the Conduct Review Board at HBS. He has created and currently teaches two courses in the Elective Curriculum: The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME) and Space, Public and Commercial Economics (SPACE). Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier https://shorturl.at/5W1QU

  8. Apr 23

    [Arguable] Factories or Fiber? What Will Actually Make Developing Countries Rich?

    For decades, the classic path to prosperity seemed clear: build factories, create jobs, grow exports, and lift millions out of poverty. But in a world shaped by AI, automation, and the internet, that model no longer feels so certain. We debate whether developing countries should still bet on manufacturing, or whether services offer a faster and more realistic route to growth. Along the way, we explore jobs, inequality, education, globalization, and whether the future belongs to industrial powerhouses or digitally connected economies.

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Network Capital’s (NC) mission is to democratize inspiration and make personalized mentoring and career guidance accessible to every person on the planet. We are a global community of more than 200,000 peer mentors from 104 countries who learn with and from each other. We are a subscription based career content and mentoring community 1. Serve as your personalized career coach in the form of global tribe of mentors. No matter what you are looking for, someone on Network Capital has done it. 2. Offer carefully curated jobs and internships 3. Access to Network Capital TV and all subgroups

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