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Game features are even more pervasive in the digital world. In little over a year, the Chinese shopping app Temu has exploded in popularity thanks to its “play to pay” model: as users browse deals they’re presented with puzzles to solve, roulette wheels to spin, and challenges to complete, which reward them with credit and special offers.

ALWAYS FOLLOW UP We all meet people but we rarely take the time to follow up and actually begin a friendship. Analyzing eight million phone calls between two million people, researchers at Notre Dame found that what makes close friendships endure is simply staying in touch every two weeks.

Our estimate of the weighted average maturity of outstanding treasuries is six years, making the 5-year note the best proxy to assess the impact of macroeconomic forces on the treasury market

The sun then told the wind that gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force.

All it takes, in essence, is to ask yourself the same questions that Holmes poses as a matter of course. Is something superfluous to the matter at hand influencing my judgment at any given point? (The answer will almost always be yes.) If so, how do I adjust my perception accordingly? What has influenced my first impression—and has that first

Guessing at the contents of a person’s attic from his outward appearance becomes one of Sherlock’s surest ways of determining who that person is and what he is capable of.

But customer support isn't really "selling work" in the way the argument orginally meant. A resolved support ticket is a binary state change. Did the customer's problem go away? Yes or no. The outcome is measurable not because the "work" is well-defined, but because the absence of a problem is well-defined. Attribution is unambiguous: the AI either

Feynman phrases it thus: “Imagination in a tight straightjacket.” To him, the straightjacket is the laws of physics. To Holmes, it is essentially the same thing: that base of knowledge and observation that you’ve acquired to the present time. Never is it simply a flight of fancy; you can’t think of imagination in this context as identical to the

To survive in nature, organisms converge on winning solutions. There’s more than one route to the same good idea.