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Staff Pick: Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau - The Millions
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Too Many Places Are STERILE and TORCHED — Let’s Make Them COOL and FUNKY
Jonah & Erinblackbirdspyplane.comit is the way a group is gathered that determines what happens in it and how successful it is, the little design choices you can make to help your gathering soar.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of
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Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers
About Robin
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For instance: in our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it. Again, an objective measure is hard to find, but one easy way to get a sense is to ask: what would happen were this entire class of people to simply disappear? Say what you like about nurses,... See more
David Graeber • On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (366ES) — Atlas of Places
Even though the underlying model is no different than the usual GPT-4o, the addition of voice has a lot of implications. A voice-powered tutor works very differently than one that communicates via typing, for example. It can also speak many other languages providing new approaches to cross-cultural communication. And I have no doubt people will... See more
Ethan Mollick • On speaking to AI
AI - Ongoing Model Improvements
Voice will take it to a new level and might make use much more widespread