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Hire people who give a shit.
“While it is not guaranteed that someone who gives shit will do great work, it is guaranteed that they will not do good work if they do not give a shit.” ~ learn more
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Sometimes papers contain obvious lies.
“The authors of scientific papers often say one thing and find another; they concoct a story around a set of findings that they might not have even made, or which they might have actually even contradicted. This happens surprisingly often, […]
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Wheel of emotions.
Since we can’t escape our emotions it may help us to label them better. “Created by American psychologist Robert Plutchik in 1980, Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions is a graphic depiction to describe how emotions are related. Through years of studying […]
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How to use em dashes (—), en dashes (–) , and hyphens (-).
As you may know, nobody uses em dashes except AI. But not really—they can be great great! ~ learn more
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Our job is not to make our kids like us.
“Our job is to help our kids become who they are meant to be. Almost certainly, whoever they want to be has some precedent in our family—and history. We owe it to them to show these branches of the family […]
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Startups should push ambitious public-facing agenda from day one.
“A startup’s story isn’t just marketing—it’s how it attracts talent, capital, and customers before it even has a finished product.” ~ learn more
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The cybernetic teammate.
Don’t let this title intimidate you. This post shares the results of very interesting field research among 776 professionals at Procter and Gamble, the consumer goods giant. The upshot: teams do better work than individuals. Yet, individuals with AI do […]
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Kill your feeds.
“We are being boiled like frogs. It happened gradually, one algorithmic tweak at a time. What started as a way to connect with friends has become a system that gives the corporations that run social media control over what we […]
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The append-and-review note.
“A few words on an approach to note taking that I stumbled on and has worked for me quite well for many years.” I’ve been using the ‘gravity’ concept for recurring 1:1 meeting notes for years and I love it. […]
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The danger of overthinking.
This is a machine learning paper about Large Reasoning Models dropping the ball by way of overthinking. Does this apply to humans too? “ Our analysis reveals that simple efforts to mitigate overthinking in agentic environments — such as selecting […]