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Why
AI should be empowering, not fear inducing. Period. Are we there yet? No, I don’t think so. One of my core philosophies around the use of AI is that it should empower me to focus on what makes me special, what skills I can cultivate, what talents I can enhance. For example, I want AI…
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Adversity is a terrible thing to waste
In this episode of the Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday interviews Will Guidara, author of Unreasonable Hospitality — read it if you haven’t. I paused when Guidara said: “Adversity is a terrible thing to waste.” It’s a well-formed phrase for an idea I’ve been turning over for a while. You see, lately, I’ve been thinking about…
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Half Blind
Most art forms are shaped by the artist in sight of the whole. Step back from a large sculpture or a massive mural. Compose a song and play it back in minutes. But a book? You can never step far enough back to take it all in at once. Long-form storytelling may be the only…
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Cognitive Inheritance: Why Your Parents Trust the News That Lies to Them
Cognitive inheritance explains why your parents trust the news that failed them. They aren’t gullible — the system earned their faith, then abandoned it.
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The City That Never Finishes
In the center of Paris, at her beating heart, burns a furnace of fire and flame. A white-hot mass with a gravitational pull on those susceptible to her charm. This magnetic force draws you in, warms your soul, and if you are lucky enough to surrender to it, you become one with her. And when…
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Cognitive Inheritance: Why Your Parents Trust the News That Lies to Them
Cognitive inheritance explains why your parents trust the news that failed them. They aren’t gullible — the system earned their faith, then abandoned it.
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The City That Never Finishes
In the center of Paris, at her beating heart, burns a furnace of fire and flame. A white-hot mass with a gravitational pull on those susceptible to her charm. This magnetic force draws you in, warms your soul, and if you are lucky enough to surrender to it, you become one with her. And when…
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OpenFit 2+ Open-Ear Headphones
I spent years treating headphones as isolation chambers. The point was to disappear — into a podcast, a playlist, the work. Block the world out, get something done. The Shokz OpenFit 2+ broke that habit. These aren’t noise-canceling. They don’t seal against your ear canal. They sit just outside it, directing sound inward while leaving…
