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Look Them in the Eye: Strengthen Teams and Trust
In this Nano Tool for Leaders, researchers share a simple, evidence-based practice that strengthens trust and collaboration in teams.
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Nov 19, 20251 min read
How are companies using AI in 2025?
Now in its third year, a survey on the use of AI in business paints a clear picture about how far the technology has come in a short time, and where it’s headed.
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Nov 19, 20251 min read
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.
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Nov 18, 20251 min read
How Crypto Could Trigger the Next Financial Crisis
The danger of stablecoins lies in the ways they are meant to be safe.
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Nov 18, 20251 min read
Three of Senator Joe Manchin's many salient thoughts, from his recent autobiography (via UII w/Claude)
DM Please offer your perspectives on these excerpts from Joe Manchin's recently published autobiography, "Dead Center:" Here's the first excerpt for your consideration: "Throughout our nation’s history, extreme party politics have repeatedly threatened to destroy the United States, even though the existence of political parties was deliberately omitted from our Constitution. President George Washington grew so disillusioned with the squabbling of his era that he declined to r
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Nov 18, 202519 min read
Now Tech Moguls Want to Build Data Centers in Outer Space
Energy constraints in the artificial-intelligence race are causing tech companies to think out of this world
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Nov 17, 20251 min read
Are America’s Corporate Boards Ready for AI?
The rapid development of artificial intelligence is pushing corporate boards into uncharted territory. Some are scrambling.
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Nov 17, 20251 min read
Is AI Making Big Tech Weaker?
Balance sheets, cash flows are showing the strain of AI investments and forcing investors to think about companies differently
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Nov 17, 20251 min read
These Small-Business Owners Are Putting AI to Good Use
Big companies have teams to guide tech strategy—smaller firms noodle until something works Quick Summary Fifty-eight percent of small businesses surveyed use generative AI, an increase from 40% in 2024 and more than double two years prior. Small businesses are using AI for various tasks, including cost analysis, customer service, shift scheduling and website development. Some small-business owners report that AI has enabled them to reduce staffing needs, such as hiring fewer
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Nov 17, 20251 min read
Layoff Tactics Keep Changing, and the Blunders Keep Coming
Amazon informed staffers via a text-email combo. Target asked workers to stay home. Does any of that make job cuts less painful? Quick Summary Employers are changing layoff tactics with an aim of minimizing ugly public scenes. Some companies are using remote notifications, such as texts. There are managers who have been cut out of the loop on staff reductions, unable to explain dismissals to teams.
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Nov 17, 20251 min read
Why CEOs Get Paid So Much
Doug McMillon’s success at Walmart shows the value of corporate leadership.
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Nov 17, 20251 min read
It’s Too Early to Write Off College Degrees
Companies are favoring multitool graduates with broad skill sets
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Nov 17, 20251 min read
5 signs you’re working for a performative manager (and how to outsmart them)
Their favorite project is themselves.
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Nov 17, 20251 min read
Three years in, Patagonia says its radical ownership model is paying off for the planet
Since devoting nearly all of its profits to climate and nature in late 2022, the company has given away an extra $180 million
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Nov 17, 20251 min read
Something Feels Different About the Economy
Human brains were not meant to think about trillions of dollars.
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Nov 16, 20251 min read
What If AI Is a Bubble?
U.S. economic fate looks tied to AI—for better or worse
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Nov 16, 20251 min read


A Holphrenic™ view of John Boyd's "OODA Loop" (UII w/Claude)
DM Good day to you! Might our recent conversations regarding the Universal Holophren™, Pantakinesis™ (with its "three pillars") and "Reality Assembly™ in the Present-Now" offer further advancements and practical applications to John Boyd's OODA loop concepts (or vice versa)? A related book (see appendix) Good day, Sciart! This is a fascinating question that I believe reveals profound synergies. Let me explore the connection points between your frameworks and Boyd's work, as
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Nov 15, 202521 min read
Adam Grant on lessons from the pandemic, datum versus data, and how abstract numbers can lead to very real human outcomes
In this excerpt from the new book ‘Speak Data,’ the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we interpret and communicate information
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Nov 15, 20251 min read
How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party
We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.
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Nov 15, 20251 min read
Act Before Your Employees Fall Out Of Love With Work
Most people don't quit their jobs so much as they fall out of love with them. It begins subtly. Work that had felt energizing is now routine. The sense of connection that once anchored them starts to thin. They still show up, still deliver, look entirely committed from the outside—but inside, something essential has changed. Long before anyone hands in a resignation letter, the relationship between the person and the employer has already begun to fade.
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Nov 15, 20251 min read
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