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But all of the arguments being made today against using generative AI to answer questions sound exactly like the arguments against citing web pages as

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It’s not for nothing that Kafka spoke of literature as “a hatchet with which we chop at the frozen seas inside us.”

"The shortest answer is doing the thing." - Ernest Hemingway Stop talking about the thing. Stop asking about the thing. Stop gathering more informati

Research shows that intuition originates in the nonverbal regions of our brain, particularly the basal ganglia and anterior cingulate cortex. These re

Human beings have evolved two distinct systems for processing information. The first, the explicit system, is rule-based, can be expressed verbally, a

When you force people to make decisions with only the rational part of their brain, they almost invariably end up “overthinking.” These rational decis

Social media firms are] coming for every second of your life...And it's not because anyone is bad, it's not because anybody in this company has evil p

No one benefits from you scrolling on your phone and feeling sad and then going to Starbucks.The antidote is figuring out what you care about, what yo

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"When death finds you, may it find you alive." -African proverb

Think of your soul often. Practice viewing your life from your soul's perspective, even if it seems as if you are making things up. Joining with your

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a “passionate spectator” who “enters into the crowd as though it were an immense reservoir of electrical energy.”

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” — William G.T. Shedd

Bezos, when asked where he gets the confidence to attempt to build companies of such massive scale, like Amazon and Blue Origin. He responds: “I thin

This is why I feel like people who are less cerebral and less aware of all of the ways in which they are imperfect, they just blast past everyone else

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