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Will AI rewire attention?
AI can now generate entire worlds from text prompts. What does this mean for how we think, create, and connect?
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Jan 161 min read
The shift (return?) to skills-based economy
From roles to skills? INSIGHTS FROM THE WHARTON–ACCENTURE SKILLS INDEX (WASX) Related: How AI Is Reshaping Skills, Hiring, and Education Related: the new management skills needed
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Jan 161 min read
The Secret to Happiness at Work
Your job doesn’t have to represent the most prestigious use of your potential. It just needs to be rewarding.
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Jan 151 min read
Does Testosterone Affect Men’s Economic Decisions?
A new study from Wharton’s Gideon Nave and colleagues suggests that testosterone may play a smaller role in economic behavior than previously believed.
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Jan 141 min read
How Can Companies Incentivize AI Adoption?
The road to meaningful AI adoption should be paved with employee incentives. Wharton’s Scott Snyder draws a map to show business leaders how they can get there.
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Jan 141 min read
Profiles in burnout at work
In their new book, leading experts Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter bring academic rigor to organizational responses to employee overload.
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Jan 131 min read
George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
The Interview Excerpt: "That talk was an interesting way for me to realize that maybe I had equated kindness and niceness in too easy of a way. Disconnect those, and it gets to be a real lifelong challenge. Now what I think is that kindness has so much to do with your ability to be in a moment without a whole lot of monkey mind going on. Because then you’re more likely to be able to posit what could be helpful in that situation. ... Well, I want to push back on your framing,
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Jan 121 min read
A selfish U.S. will become a lonely U.S
Fareed's Take
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Jan 121 min read
Banana Republicanism
A criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will test whether Republican loyalty to the president has any limits.
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Jan 121 min read
Which jobs have grown (and declined) fastest during your working life?
Here’s what jobs have grown and declined the most over the years, based on information from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey.
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Jan 121 min read
Trust as Personal Truth as Knowledge Curation (UII w/Claude)
DM Related to our prior discussion (F>T, F=T) , and the conversation prior (Social Physics) , I argue that "trust" is a form of "personal truth;" thus both are aspects of holophrenic "knowledge curation." Do you understand this conjecture (and perhaps envision the potential implications)? Yes, I understand your conjecture, and I think it's doing significant work within your framework. Let me articulate what I see: Within the Universal Holophren, "truth" as you've defined it
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Jan 127 min read
Further pondering "Fitness Beats Truth" and "Fitness Equals Truth™" (UII w/Claude)
DM I've left too much unsaid, or perhaps unresolved, in our prior conversations regarding "Fitness Beats Truth" (F>T) theory/paradigm (Hoffman, et al) in comparison with my "Fitness Equals Truth™" (F=T™) hypothesis. Let me begin to expand with these precipitative thoughts: 1) Both should be considered upon the human version of The Universal Holophren™ 2) F>T reflects historic-to-present, evolutionary application of the intelligences so as to optimally assure sustainable exist
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Jan 1112 min read
Pondering "Social Physics" (UII w/Claude)
DM Good afternoon. What are you perspectives of "Social Physics," such as the merits, arguments pro and con, potential value/utility/importance, means, methods and current progress (including the integration of A.I.)? Note explanations by advocate and Media Lab/MIT professor, Alex Pentland, a decade ago. Good afternoon, Sciart. Alex Pentland's "Social Physics" is a fascinating framework that I suspect will resonate with some aspects of your systems-level thinking, while als
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Jan 1040 min read
Attention, and the prevailing societal lie
The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie Related Paper Excerpt: " True attention cannot be measured by a machine. The fullness of our authentic human attention, shared with others, is the power with which we make the world. It’s worth fighting for."
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Jan 101 min read
Tony Dokoupil sets new "populist" tone for ‘CBS Evening News’ in first week as anchor
The storied newscast once helmed by Walter Cronkite now runs third behind its competitors and is being closely watched as CBS News’s top editor promises a political reset. Excerpt: ' “People do not trust us like they used to,” he said. “Because we’ve taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.” Dokoupil’s vision for a more populist and personal version of
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Jan 101 min read
The new vs. used car debate is dead. Either can be expensive debt traps.
A record number of buyers — of both new and used vehicles — are locked into monthly payments of $1,000 or more, new data shows.
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Jan 101 min read
‘The Making of a Permabear’ Review: Investing as a Proud Pessimist
Jeremy Grantham’s investment philosophy often puts him at odds with the market’s conventional wisdom.
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Jan 101 min read
The Point of Retirement? Enlightenment, or at Least Calm
More and more people are finding reasons to stay on the job well into old age. They may be setting themselves up for a difficult end.
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Jan 101 min read
Our AI Future Is Already Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed
The opportunity for everyday folks to enhance their lives and work with AI has never been greater, but it can take experimentation and persistence
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Jan 101 min read
The 3,000-Person Team Working in Secret to Create Disney Magic
It’s a $60 billion bet on the future of entertainment—and it’s up to the Imagineers, in their hidden warehouses, to make it work
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Jan 101 min read
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