Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
People with an optimistic mindset are associated with various positive health indicators, particularly cardiovascular, but also pulmonary, metabolic, and immunologic. They have a lower incidence of age-related illnesses and reduced mortality levels. Optimism and pessimism are not arbitrary and elusive labels. On the contrary, they are mindsets that... See more
The new science of optimism and longevity
You can prevent or stop an amygdala hijack by activating the neocortex–the logical part of your brain.
Jasmine Quinn-Atlassian • Your brain can actually hijack your success. Here’s how to retrain it
On the latest episode of the Most Innovative Companies podcast, Irving Fain, founder and CEO of the vertical farming company Bowery, explains how being an outsider to agriculture has helped him come up with new ideas.
These smart farms are 100 times more productive than traditional agriculture
It’s still hard to imagine letting AI handle meetings — and not being offended when a bot shows up instead of the human we were expecting.
Unless, of course, we evolve to a future where every meeting is full of bots and we’re all at the beach.
Unless, of course, we evolve to a future where every meeting is full of bots and we’re all at the beach.
Would you let AI rep you in a meeting?
In her ideal world, we’d halt work on making AI more powerful for the next five to 10 years. In the meantime, society could get used to the very powerful systems we already have, and experts could do as much safety research on them as possible until they hit diminishing returns. Then they could make AI systems slightly more powerful, wait another
... See moreThe case for slowing down AI
While there’s no way to uninvent the nuclear bomb or the genetic engineering tools that can juice pathogens, catastrophic AI has yet to be created, meaning it’s one type of doom we have the ability to preemptively stop.
The case for slowing down AI
The community is the Orbit, a futuristic-sounding name for a new district on the edge of the town of Innisfil, Ontario, a commuter city about a half-hour drive north of Toronto.
Nate Berg • fastcompany.com
Living in an age of digital distraction has wreaked havoc on our brains—but there’s much we can do to restore our tech–life balance.