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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
"Soft-propaganda" advances by U.S. leadership
250 years of U.S. history is projected on the Washington Monument. A lot was missing
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Jan 131 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
What Stephen Miller Gets Wrong About Human Nature
The Trump adviser’s assertions about the “real world” reflect a deep misunderstanding of Thomas Hobbes’s dog-eat-dog worldview.
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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
A severely limited perspective of a recently posted NYT opinion regarding attention (UII w/Claude)
DM What are your perspectives regarding my recently posted opinion within The New York Times? This piece articulates something genuinely important, though I think it stops short of the deeper diagnosis your Pantakinesis framework would offer. What the article gets right: The historical genealogy is valuable —tracing how Cattell's "span" metrics, Mackworth's vigilance studies, and Broadbent's valve-and-tube diagrams progressively mechanized attention into something measurable,
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Jan 126 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
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
He was diagnosed with cancer, then won a 24,000-mile sailing race
Dalin had kept a secret from his competitors, his fans and even his own team as he embarked on a voyage that would take several months. He was battling gastrointestinal cancer. At first, he wondered if he would survive. Then he wondered if he could race.
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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
Don’t Underestimate the Value of Professional Friendships
Most people try to keep work and friendship in separate boxes, but that division is counterproductive. Professionals now spend more time with colleagues than with anyone else, and strong personal ties at work are directly linked to trust, learning,creativity, and performance. Related: Social Capital and Opportunity
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Jan 101 min read
The Folly of the U.S. Metamorphosis
The United States' democracy has turned dark, aggressive, and lawless. "Republican Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee, in defending Trump’s stance on Greenland, referred to the United States as the “ dominant predator ” in the Western Hemisphere. He meant it as a compliment." Related: also at home
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Jan 91 min read
"Magic Carpet Podcasts:" to better assure that you'll reach your 2026 objectives
Go to this week's Hidden Brain "personal magic carpet threds"
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Jan 91 min read
AN ACT OF COSMIC SABOTAGE
How U.S. leadership tried to ground NASA’s science missions
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Jan 91 min read
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