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The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the kind where there's not enough. It's in this realm the real monsters appear. Without enough real problems to go around, humans are prone to invent fictitious and dreadful ones.

This is the root of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs analysis. That a shocking

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Multiplayer mode may be democratizing in enabling user-generated finance, but it will only be empowering if it gives people the resource and access to good teams. Whether that can happen remains one of the most important questions of our current technological revolution.

Sourcing materials, finding great manufacturing partners, negotiating pricing and minimum order quantity, building a kickass website to sell your product online — it’s not easy, and it takes time. Too much time. And even worse, you may go through this entire process only to have to do it all over again with another supplier once your business... See more

“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live... See more

Forty percent of millennials say they have no affiliation with a religious tradition, and Casper says that number is expected to rise as high as 50 percent for Gen Z. As these traditional religious affiliations decline, people are naturally looking to fill the void left by their disappearance with other sources of meaning. The take-away for... See more

The truth is that motherhood is as beautiful as it looks on the congratulations cards, but it can also be a mess. It’s important to be honest about this. No real change is possible until working mothers stop trying to be all things to all people—perfect at work, perfect as partners, and perfect as mothers, with each role kept entirely separate.

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OpenAI’s product trades Google’s vastness for directness, dimensionality for simplicity. It is Gaiman’s librarian, leveraging vast sums of human knowledge to provide a definitive answer – even if it sometimes gets it wrong. In E.O. Wilson’s Age of the Synthesizer, ChatGPT’s talent for distillation, generation, coalescence – managed at speed – may

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The problem ‘akshually’ is that contemporary programmatic advertising is too efficient, and the ads sales people at The New York Times selling outrageously priced ads on a fixed, rate-card basis were selling media not really worth the cost (when measured at the level of precision the internet makes possible). Decades worth of such advertising... See more