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  • For those who think you're more productive with less sleep

    Sleeping less doesn’t make you more productive. It just makes you more tired.

  • AI Workers Are Putting In 100-Hour Workweeks to Win the New Tech Arms Race

    Workers in Silicon Valley are pushing themselves to extremes day after day Quick Summary Top AI researchers and executives are working 80 to 100 hours weekly, driven by intense competition. Corporate credit-card transaction data from the expense-management startup Ramp shows a surge in Saturday orders from San Francisco-area restaurants for delivery and takeout from noon to midnight. The pace of AI development has compressed the time from research breakthroughs to product launches to days.

  • Ancient Desert Death Trap

    Explore mysterious 9,000-year-old Stone Age megastructures found in the Arabian Desert.

  • U.S Leadership Advances Election Denials, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances

    Enabled by congress and the courts, the president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms. Related

  • The war on whimsy

    America is facing a war on whimsy, and we are losing ground daily. A monster pervades this nation, stealing sleep from schoolkids, tearing down national treasures and locking us in our homes to toil behind computer screens: efficiency. We have marched to the anthem of productivity since the Industrial Revolution; we think of children working away with coal-slathered faces in factories and believe we have evolved as a society. But I posit that as soon as we pilfered the chisel from the craftsman, we lost what it truly meant to be human.

  • AMERICA IS SLIDING TOWARD ILLITERACY

    Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

  • Creativity in the Age of AI

    In a new book, Wharton's Jerry Wind and his co-authors argue that creativity is a learnable skill that becomes more powerful when paired with intelligent machines.

  • How Can Leaders Adapt to AI?

    In an excerpt from his book ‘The Leader’s Brain,’ Wharton neuroscientist Michael Platt talks about three leadership skills that are critical in an increasingly automated world.

  • HOLY WARRIOR

    Pete Hegseth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon.

  • The "37% rule": How many people should you date before settling down?

    When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.

  • The Parental-Happiness Fallacy

    Where commentary on moms’ satisfaction goes wron g

  • ‘You’re Going to Lose Your Mind’: My Three-Day Retreat in Total Darkness

    The author spent days in a room with no light. Who would he be when he emerged?

One  objective:
facilitating  those,
who are so motivated,
to enjoy the benefits of becoming  humble polymaths.   

“The universe
is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”


—Eden Phillpotts

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries.

Nikola Tesla

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

Vincent Van Gogh

" The unexamined life is not worth living."  

Attributed to Socrates​

“Who knows whether in a couple of centuries

there may not exist universities for restoring the old ignorance?”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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