Be wary of workers who buy into the corporate BS. “Corporate bullshit confuses rather than clarifies. It may sound impressive, but it is semantically empty.” Cornell researchers built a Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale and found that people most impressed by […]
The science of personality change. “Brian Little says that in the service of important personal projects, we can actually shape-shift for a short period of time in order to achieve our goals.” Olga Khazan explains how you can act like […]
Linus’s Law applies to science, too. The creator of Linux changed software by publishing his code and letting the community find and fix bugs, rather than polish for a long time before releasing. The author argues this works for research […]
Ramp down the AI rhetoric. “This is all complete nonsense.” Geohot argues the fear narrative around AI is toxic, and that the real move is to stop playing zero sum status games and “Go create value for others and don’t […]
How Al content detectors work. GPTZero says it “was one of the first AI detectors to pioneer the idea of using ‘perplexity’ and ‘burstiness’ to evaluate writing.” The piece explains why being consistent, typo free, or just writing technical prose […]
As life gets better. “As life gets better, people think it’s getting worse!” The thread calls this the Tocqueville Effect, or “prevalence-induced concept change”: when a problem gets rarer, we often expand the definition so we keep “finding” it anyway. […]
Every company needs a stuntperson. “In December 2025, hosted a mock “funeral” for the U.S. penny at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., marking the end of its 230+ year production run with hundreds of people in attendance.” Brianne Kimmel […]
Bundled tasks hide AI gains. “If you’re half as productive at debugging code you didn’t write, or less, the LLM saves you no time at all.” Philip Trammell’s point: automating one slice of a job can break the feedback loop […]
The sports marketing measurement playbook. “L5 is the land of Big Numbers. They look very impressive on slide decks (”450m IMPRESSIONS”). At this level, you are measuring activity, not outcomes.” Avinash Kaushik lays out a 5-level playbook for sports marketing […]
Management is the AI superpower. “As evaluating those results becomes increasingly time consuming, the value of being good at delegation increases.” Mollick’s take is that the bottleneck is shifting from doing the work to specifying, reviewing, and iterating, which makes […]