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Belgium Dominates World Games with Three Gold Medals
Belgium has secured three gold medals so far at the World Games in Chengdu, China, underscoring the nation’s prowess in acrogym, trampoline, and orienteering, reports 24brussels.
The first two days of competition proved fruitful for Team Belgium. On Friday, Maysae Bouhouch and Silke Macharis claimed gold in the acrogym pairs event, outperforming athletes from Ukraine and Portugal. The team’s impressive performance set a confident tone for the event.
On Saturday, Brent Deklerck added a second title for Belgium, winning the double trampoline final with a score of 26.800 points, besting competitors from Britain and Canada. This achievement showcased the depth of talent within the Belgian delegation.
Belgium’s third gold came on Sunday when Yannick Michiels triumphed in the orienteering sprint competition. This victory marked Michiels’ second career medal at the World Games, following his earlier success in Wroclaw, Poland, in 2017.
Korfball Team Eyes Additional Medal
A fourth medal appears imminent, as Belgium’s korfball team has qualified for the semi-finals. A victory over Taiwan on Tuesday would guarantee at least a silver medal for the team, further solidifying Belgium’s strong showing at the Games.
Held every four years, the World Games feature a variety of sports not included in the Olympic program. In the previous edition in Birmingham, USA, Belgium achieved a significant milestone by winning 20 medals—11 gold, four silver, and five bronze.
This year’s competition in Chengdu will continue until August 17, with 76 Belgian athletes competing across 22 different disciplines.
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- AI is merging tech roles, favoring generalists, says Figma’s CEO Dylan Field.
- Figma’s IPO, valued at $68 billion, ended a three-year tech IPO drought.
- Silicon Valley leaders are advising career flexibility as AI reshapes jobs.
Being a generalist is so in right now.
“This was happening before AI, but it’s happening even more with AI,” Figma’s CEO Dylan Field said at a talk with Y Combinator published on Saturday. “There’s something about AI that empowers generalist behavior.”
Field said that areas that were seen as distinct phases in the product development process are now merging.
“Product is also blurring with design and development and potentially even parts of research,” he said. “All this is becoming less distinct, and it’s all kind of coming together more.”
In what was seen as the hottest listing of the year, Figma went public on July 31 at a $19.3 billion valuation, three years after Adobe was set to acquire the design software startup for almost the same amount. By market close that day, Figma’s stock had more than tripled its initial public offering price, valuing the company at nearly $68 billion, giving its Silicon Valley investors a big payday. It brought to an end a three-year tech IPO dry spell, and the company threw a massive block party in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
The company’s valuation has since slid to $38 billion.
At the YC talk, Field also said designers would become more important with AI.
“In this age of AI, if you really believe that development gets easier and it’s more simple to create software, it’s faster to create software. Then what is your differentiator?” he said. “It’s design, it’s craft, it’s attention to detail.”
Field added that designers will have more leverage in the future and more will step into founder and leadership roles.
“There will be a lot of curation involved and a lot of leadership will be needed from designers,” he said. “So they have to step up.”
Figma did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Field is far from the first tech leader to extoll the value of generalists. Silicon Valley leaders have been recommending that more people become generalists instead of specialists as AI changes the nature and need for certain careers.
Earlier this month, the billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said he suggests young people don’t plan their career around any one job.
“You have to optimize your career for flexibility, not a single profession,” he said on a podcast. “That’s the most important advice because you don’t know what will be around.”
Andreessen Horowitz founder Marc Andreessen said he advised people outside domains like biotech and AI Foundation models to go broader instead of deeper.
“I think for most fields, though, now with these new tools, I would probably bet more on basically people who are able to be broad,” he said on a May podcast.
“Which is to say basically knowing something about a lot of different aspects of life and how the world works.”
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- Michelle Obama says her top dating advice to her daughters is simple: date a lot.
- She said that dating widely meant she had experiences to “compare” Barack Obama to when he came along.
- “And if you run into a bad date or have a bad experience, move on quickly. Don’t stay around,” she said.
Michelle Obama isn’t afraid of a little trial-and-error, even when it comes to relationships.
During the Wednesday episode of her “IMO” podcast, which she cohosts with her brother, Craig Robinson, Obama spoke about dating and the guidance she shares with her two daughters regarding matters of the heart.
Her main piece of advice? Date a lot.
“I just try to get them to stay open to people, right?” Obama told Robinson. “The thing that I did do was date a lot. And so when Barack showed up, I had experiences to compare him against. Like, I knew a lot of the ‘I didn’t like this, I didn’t like that.'”
Obama said she and her husband, Barack Obama, often shared stories from their own dating past to help their daughters learn what to look for and what to avoid.
“My whole thing is, date a lot. And if you run into a bad date or have a bad experience, move on quickly. Don’t stay around. It’s like, if it’s not working, next,” Obama said.
In 2023, Obama said that it took her some time to get used to her and her husband’s different love languages. He is more verbally and physically affectionate, while she prefers acts of service and quality time, she said.
“One of the things that’s different in how we show love is that because his family lived far away, and traveled a lot, he had to learn to love at a distance,” Obama said. In contrast, her family was “always together.”
Dating coaches and relationship therapists shared their top dating tips with Business Insider in 2022. These included strategies like starting a date with a compliment, practicing flirting with eyes, and ending a first date with a subtle “accidental” touch.
A representative for Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.
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