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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.
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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.
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
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
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.modelthinking .implementation This is a great point that average maturity of issuance by a sovereign is a good approximation of macroeconomic drivers
The sun then told the wind that gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force.
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
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
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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.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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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
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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
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To survive in nature, organisms converge on winning solutions. There’s more than one route to the same good idea.