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Julia Evans • jvns.ca

On choosing a college

For some fortunate 17 year olds, the end of the year is the day for a momentous decision, one that’s largely out of the comfort zone of a 17 year old. A four-year college education in the US can cost nearly half a million dollars once we count the expenses and foregone opportunities that go […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

a digital career path for curious people

But not just any second-brain app. One that is actually useful.

Dan Koe • email

Benign vs. normal

We evolved to be wary of change. Our attention is limited, new things can be a threat and the status quo feels comfortable. As a result, we spend a lot of time and energy being afraid (and arguing about) the upcoming changes in our lives, but almost no time at all thinking about the things […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Which agenda?

Every day matters. It seems like a waste to spend one as a to-do list item on someone else’s agenda. It’s easy to become so focused on checking the boxes that we forget that there are people involved. Peers, colleagues and friends that with something human to offer, if we only cared enough to connect.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

What Colour are your bits?

There's a classic adventure game called Paranoia which is set in an extremely repressive Utopian futuristic world run by The Computer, who is Your Friend.  Looking at a recent LawMeme posting and related discussion, it occurred to me that the concept of colour-coded security ...

Ansuz - mskala's home page • ansuz.sooke.bc.ca

Rewrite for humans

My building had an elevator problem. The management company sent everyone this note: Please be advised we have been experiencing intermittent issues with the elevator. Our priority is your safety, and we are taking immediate action to address the situation. After a thorough investigation by our electrician, it has been identified that there may be […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Lessons From Elizabeth Burstein, Neura Health: Closing the Access and Quality Gap in Neurological Care • Vivien Ho

Lessons from Elizabeth Burstein, Neura Health: Closing the access and quality gap in neurological care

Neura Health is a virtual neurology clinic with a mission to improve the access and quality of neurological care.

Vivien Ho • medium.com

Leverage

It’s almost impossible to remove a screw with your bare hands, but easy with a screwdriver. The handle might only add a little torque, but it’s more than enough. If someone is succeeding at something you find difficult, it might be because they realized they needed a screwdriver. Looking for the tool is the first […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Finding a more useful umwelt

Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious that your dog has a different one than you do. They see fewer colors and smell far more intelligently. Sea slugs see a much wider range of colors, and bats can sense vibrations. Among humans, we each […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

“Let’s face it”

In 1959, three years after Columbia Records spent a fortune rolling out stereo recording, a senior A&R executive named Ward Botsman told the New York Times, “Let’s face it, the craze for stereo has not been as intense as expected,” writing off the format that would end up thriving for, as far as I can […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Hackers and Painters

When I finished grad school in computer science I went to art school to study painting. A lot of people seemed surprised that someone interested in computers would also be interested in painting.

Paul Graham • www.paulgraham.com

Patient Portal

These are all helpful notes I have received recently from the Boston-centered medical behemoth that provides my care. Lately, I have been fantasizing about one more message I would like to get.

New England Journal of Medicine • ai.nejm.org

Happiness can often be traded for money

Most of us know what enough happiness feels like. But some people are stuck in an endless cycle of seeking more money. That’s a bad trade. Because after a certain threshold, it’s hard for more money to buy you more happiness. And the trap is that trying ends up costing you both.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Lost on purpose

…of course, if you’re lost on purpose, you’re not lost. Lost is only possible if you are fixed on getting somewhere specific.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Weekly Dose of Optimism #74

Solar Surge, Nuclear Hermes, Self-Driving Labs, CAR-T, Retro Biosciences, AOM Season 1 Finale

Daniel McCormick • www.notboring.co

x1000

The future creeps up on us slowly. But when it leaps dramatically, we notice. One spam phone call a day is an irritation. 1,000 of them destroy the utility of the phone. One photographer undercutting our rates is a threat. 1,000 of them means we can’t make a living at it any longer. We’re facing […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The Age Gappers

They say they’re happy. Why is it so hard to believe them?

Lila Shapiro • www.thecut.com

Drama at work

A divo (or diva) is an opera singer with skill. Sometimes, though, that skill comes in a package that also includes imperiousness, skittishness and a fair amount of unpredictable drama. It’s tempting to imagine that CEOs, painters or poets that bring the noise must also have skill. But burning your guitar doesn’t make you Jimi […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The clamp and the mallet

While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder, and eventually whacked at it. No luck. Then I got smart and put three clamps around the part, gently turning each one, increasing the pressure, until it simply popped out. Persistent, gentle pressure almost always […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Momentum, Consolidation, and Breakout

Lessons from 2023, the year the momentum stalled

Packy McCormick • www.notboring.co

The problems with flat out

The desire for 11 is proof that we often want to go all the way to ten. While 11 is silly, there is a lot of pressure to give our all. But there are problems. The first is that if you try to sprint an entire marathon, you’ll hurt yourself. Systems can be stressed for […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Focusing attention is a skill

Where we choose to direct our gaze determines not only what we learn or believe, but how we choose to see the world. Typing is a skill. Juggling is a skill. So is project management. It’s easy to overlook the fact that we can get better at what we think about, create and consume. If […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Personal process notation

“I’ll remember it later.” I’ll confess, I rarely do. It turns out, it’s easier to remember questions than answers. And tools like Google Docs and photos in the cloud give us a chance to build our own personal search engine. It takes 14 steps to construct the pages in one of my InDesign projects. Inevitably, […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

the future of work is play

If every action is toward a conscious or unconscious goal, it seemed like everyone was eager to be overweight, unhealthy, overworked, and broke.

Dan Koe • email

The friendly professional

Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our principles. Friendly is how it feels, not what it does.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Weekly Dose of #73

Nuclear AI, Approved CRISPR, Diabetes Implants, Morning Sickness, MDMA Application, FunSearch

Daniel McCormick • www.notboring.co

Signal and noise

If the signal is very weak and the noise is large, it’s easy to imagine that there’s no signal at all. AI and computers can be used as lenses now, which means we can strip away the noise and see things that we certainly didn’t expect. Dina Katabi at MIT can point a radio antenna […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

LayerZero: The Language of the Omnnichain

A Deep Dive on the TCP/IP for Blockchains

Packy McCormick • www.notboring.co

Eight marketing maxims

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Valuable contributions

We actually don’t really know. Netflix just released their first-ever detailed analysis of how many hours of engagement the top 15,000+ most watched shows on the network received over a six month period. Here’s the file. Who won? That question is actually the lesson here. The fact is, most organizations are pretty clueless about where […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The anatomy of shadcn/ui

If you were roaming around in the JavaScript ecosystem this year you might have come across this interesting UI library called shadcn/ui.

manupa.dev • manupa.dev

Digital stocking stuffers (and the other kind)

Ever since O. Henry wrote about the Magi, it’s been pretty clear that gifts aren’t about the stuff as much as they are the intent. Holidays where gifts are expected undermine this, because it’s hard to tell where obligation begins and intent fades away. One lightweight and quick alternative to traditional items are digital ones. […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Elegant and classy

If you announce that something is elegant or classy, it probably isn’t. There’s a humility to hospitality and sophistication that evaporates when we name it.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Walking the city, walking the world

Last week, I passed 800 people as I walked my way through New York. I decided to look at the folks I was walking near. Of those 800 people, not one was as conventionally attractive as a movie star. Few looked like the images I saw on the billboards I passed. Most wouldn’t be cast […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

you won't be the same in 6 months

Most people, even though they don’t know it, are asleep.

Dan Koe • email

Wrestling, fighting or dancing?

We can wrestle with a challenge or a problem and find energy and possibility while doing it. And we can dance with someone else as we seek a mutual way forward. Fighting tends to be more brutal, final and hurtful than is often productive. You don’t want to spend your days fighting. The words matter.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Weekly Dose of Optimism #72

Gemini, Qubits, Brain Implants, saRNA, Biotech on Mars, Age of Miracles

Daniel McCormick • www.notboring.co

All species are invasive species

Human beings as we know them have only been around for 70,000 years or so. Honeybees got to North America around the time Columbus did. And the same is true for technologies and companies. Western Union was an interloper, telegrams were the scary new tech that was going to change everything for the worse. It’s […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Abundance and ideas

A colleague got an angry note. It concluded with, “you should know better.” The transgression? The sender was offended that my friend had written a post about a concept she’s been developing for nearly a decade. Of course, no idea is unique, and the posted idea sort of rhymed with one that the professor had […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The Morality of Having Kids in a Magical, Maybe Simulated World

Why the Climate Crisis May Be Proof We're In a Simulation

Packy McCormick • www.notboring.co

Hope and expectations

They’re not the same thing. Hope can fuel us. Hope can be refilled. Hope opens the door to possibility. Expectations, on the other hand, are a trap. They make us brittle and lead to disappointment. When we raise our hopes and lower our expectations, we establish a resilient way forward.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#21)

Saudi oil, delayed economic optimism, the EV revolution, U.S. education performance, Indian industrialization, and Chinese urbanism

Noah Smith • www.noahpinion.blog

The head of marketing

It’s easy to be confused about this job, because it’s not one job, it’s at least three. This is why it’s a difficult job to fill, and why turnover is so high–we’re not allocating resources or setting expectations in a way that matches the work to be done. Marketing strategy: This is the work of […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Wild Hope Now: The power of books for causes

Non-profits and charities depend on the emotional and financial support of their backers. And that support is always based on a story. A story of possibility, of justice, of community. They serve to right wrongs, to fix problems, to shine a light and to make things better. I’ve discovered that a book is a powerful […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The sixty-day staircase

In the moment, it’s really difficult. L’espirit descalier means, “the spirit of the staircase.” That thing you wished you had a said just a moment ago, the bon mot or the clever riposte. It only comes to us as we’re walking away. But this sort of quick comment is good for the movies, not so […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

True/useful

Here’s a simple grid that might change the way you think about internal stories: When we believe in something that’s useful but not true, it can serve a helpful purpose. The tooth fairy, perhaps. When we act on something that’s useful and also true, we’ve found a resilient path forward. That’s because the truth doesn’t […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Selling to SMBs

The 2010s era of VC-backed healthtech was largely an enterprise game, with most founders pursuing large payors, hospital systems, or jumbo employers as customers. This was because enterprises were the customers with enough budget and IT sophistication to justify VC-scale expectations on contract sizes and growth. But recently, selling to small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) has...

Daisy Wolf • a16z.com

the anti-niche

The government and culture influence the school system. The school system creates resources for students to learn from.

Dan Koe • email

When was the last time you used a compass?

How about an astrolabe? Or even a watch? Technology advances, and sooner or later, the old stuff gets left behind. It’s easy to romanticize some of the classic devices that we built civilization on, and it’s worth remembering that the tech we’re wrestling with now will soon be faded away, with some folks nostalgic for […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Weekly Dose of Optimism #71

GLP-1s, Loyal, Material Discovery, Fervo,AI Optimism, Energy

Daniel McCormick • www.notboring.co

When the committee decides

They’re almost always conservative. Whether it’s a governmental body, the strategy group at a big company or the membership panel at the local country club, we can learn a lot by seeing what they approve and when they stall. Of course, each of us know a lot about our offering, the change we seek to […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The thing about Hobson

People talk about Hobson’s choice as if it’s always a bad thing. A liveryman in pre-industrial London, he rented horses. And every customer was allowed to take the horse closest to the door. Hobson’s choice is no choice at all. Of course, this system meant that the horses were rotated, and the fanciest ones weren’t […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The art of estimation

If you’re a freelancer or a contractor of any kind, it’s typical to be asked for an estimate or a quote. And if you’ve been doing business for a while, it’s likely that you’ve heard about price more than just about any other factor in losing an opportunity. So the pressure is on to sharpen […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Narrative Tug-of-War

How to read EA v. e/acc

Packy McCormick • www.notboring.co

sorry about that (cyber monday ended early)

P. S.

Dan Koe • email

Study groups

If I had to choose one metric that would determine how well someone would do in law school, it wouldn’t be the LSAT or another test. It would be whether or not they formed a study group, and who else was in it. Of course, the same is true for your project, or any sort […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

last call cyber monday

Last chance to take advantage of me and get up to 50% off my writing and business products. Grab the deals here.

Dan Koe • email

omg it's *cyber monday*

I have a lot of plans with the book, software, and one final product next year - so it wouldn't make sense to discount them again.

Dan Koe • email

The hard part first

If you’re trying to reduce risk, do the hard part first. That way, if it fails, you’ll have minimized your time and effort. On the other hand, if you’re looking for buy-in and commitment so you can through the hard part, do it last. People are terrible at ignoring sunk costs, and the early wins […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The long-range forecast keeps shifting

Exactly. That’s why it’s a forecast, not an accurate account of what’s going to happen in the future. This seems axiomatic, but our desire for certainty keeps letting us down. The shifting of forecasts is evidence that they’re merely forecasts.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

how smart creators make money

Content creation is how you make your writing and speaking more valuable, because you must first become valuable enough as an individual to contribute to (and profit from) the global digital community like our ancestors did their local physical community.

Dan Koe • email

After the meteorite

When it slams into your house and destroys it, we’re likely to pursue one of two lines of thinking: –How did I cause this? What choices did I make, what mistakes did I permit, why did I deserve to have this damage, or who can I blame? –Well, that happened, now what should I do? […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

How to scale a health tech business to $100 million ARR and beyond

Read our definitive benchmarks on over 100 venture-backed healthcare companies.

Sofia Guerra and Steve Kraus • www.bvp.com

Seth's Blog : Project Resistance • seths.blog

fine, i'll conform, well done

So - just like everyone else is saying - this is the lowest price you will be able to get my products.

Dan Koe • email

Weekly Dose of Optimism #70

Ceasefire, Q*, Deep learning Cancer Detection, Warp Speed Learnings, Nuclear Wins, Starship Separation

Daniel McCormick • www.notboring.co

A builder’s guide to picking the right EHR

How to evaluate EHR vendors for your digital health product when no perfect solution exists.

lightmatter.com • www.lightmatter.com

The network scam

Lana Swartz coined this term in her breakthrough paper on crypto. A scam always involves a transaction. In the traditional fraud, the scammer tells a lie and the buyer, either with or without diligence, believes it and loses everything. You buy the magic beans, but they don’t grow. But modern scams have a network component […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

What is OpenAI, Really?

It’s been five incredibly turbulent days at the leading AI tech company, with the exit and then return of CEO Sam Altman. As we dig into what went wrong, an even bigger question looms: what is OpenAI?

Gergely Orosz • newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

How to Define Your Product Strategy | by Gibson Biddle | Medium • gibsonbiddle.medium.com

How to Define Your Product Strategy

A step-by-step guide to creating a product strategy for your company.

Gibson Biddle • gibsonbiddle.medium.com

Generosity and gratitude

A gift doesn’t diminish the giver. Sharing creates connection, possibility and energy. And the magic of gratitude is that it improves everything it touches, especially the person who offered it in the first place. So, what holds us back? Fear. Fear of connection, of change, of seeing what is possible. It might feel safer to […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

#3 The Strategy/Metric/Tactic Lockup

How to assign metrics and tactics to each high-level hypothesis.

Gibson Biddle • medium.com

#2 From DHM to Product Strategy • Gibson Biddle

#2 From DHM to Product Strategy

You have ideas to delight customers, to build hard to copy advantage and experiment with your business model. Now what?

Gibson Biddle • gibsonbiddle.medium.com

#7 The Product Roadmap

A roadmap is an expression of your strategy. It shows how projects fit together, along with a rough time estimate

Gibson Biddle • gibsonbiddle.medium.com

OpenAI & Grand Strategy

Altman, Augustus, and Preparing for Tech's Coming Battles

Packy McCormick • www.notboring.co

Long form AI

The new version of Claude can read a document of up to 400 pages in about three minutes. You can then ask it for criticism, summaries or other insights. I wouldn’t use it on a piece of literature, but if you’re reading for work (aren’t we all), it will dramatically increase how much you can […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Three sheet metaphors

Here’s a large blue bedsheet, queen sized. If we’re going to pull it taut, it will take the coordinated effort of eight people, each pulling just the right amount, from each corner and edge. If we’re going to billow it up and down, like a parachute, we’re going to need those people to work in […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Nice bike

A well-designed bicycle is efficient, inexpensive and delightful. If you use your bike on the right paths, with appropriate goals, it can deliver exactly what you need, while also allowing you to go at your own pace, see what’s going on around you and feel grounded. Until, of course, you get jealous. If you start […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The perfect conditions

Somewhere, there is the ideal soil for growing mangoes. Or the best possible wave for surfing. Or the most romantic sunset for a proposal. But it’s not right here and it’s not right now. Our success has a lot to do with how we dance with conditions that aren’t quite perfect.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

make millions with your mind

One other thing before we start – we have opened up more spots for VIP and Mastermind.

Dan Koe • email

Working with problems

They’re everywhere we look. Here are a few thoughts on the ones that won’t go away: First, is it a problem or a situation? Problems, by definition, have solutions. You might not like the cost of the solution, the trade-offs it leads to, or the time and effort it takes, but problems have solutions. On […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Anti-Patterns of 10x Thinking • nfx.com

Weekly Dose of Optimism #69

CRISPR, Batkid, GraphCast, Nuclear Pledge, Starship, AoM5

Daniel McCormick • www.notboring.co

Who’s got the camera?

For years, I’ve been using this picture of Neil Armstrong when I tell the story of meeting him and hearing his talk at one of his last public appearances: I wasn’t there when this photo was taken, so I relied on a Google image search to find it: I compounded Google’s error. Sorry, Buzz. Neil […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Fwd: Does Anaesthesia Prove Ketamine Placebo?

Ketamine is a dissociative drug - it produces weird drug effects like feelings of bodylessness and ego death. Recent research suggests it’s a powerful antidepressant.

Jack Weatherilt • email

The End of Organizing

How GPT-3 will turn your notes into an *actual* second brain

Dan Shipper • every.to

The second mistake

That’s the avoidable one and the one that usually causes the real trouble. When the first mistake flusters us, breaks our rhythm or messes with our confidence, we’re far more likely to make the second one. It’s almost impossible to avoid making a mistake. But avoiding the second mistake (or, just as likely, the cover-up) […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Turtleneck confusion

Apple didn’t succeed because of the way Steve Jobs dressed. Just like SBF’s hair didn’t put him in jail. We can look at the outré behavior of various Silicon Valley overlords and come to the conclusion that it’s not only a necessary part of the job but actually the cause of their project’s success. That’s […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Blockchains As Platforms

Benefits, Drawbacks, and Trade-Offs

Packy McCormick • www.notboring.co

Deception Point

‎Crime & Thrillers · 2009

Dan Brown • books.apple.com

Learning, connecting, deciding (and amazing)

My new short LinkedIn class on project management just launched, and I’ll be discussing it live today with Amanda Ruud … we’ll be there if you want to bring your questions. Sooner or later, all important work becomes project work. After the extraordinary feedback from her last session, Avaleen Morris is leading another session of […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality

The working paper discusses a field experiment conducted with a global management consulting firm to examine the effects of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality. The experiment involved 758 consultants who were randomly assigned to different conditions: no AI access, AI access, or AI access with a prompt engineering overview. The results showed that consultants using AI were more productive and produced higher quality results for tasks within the capabilities of AI. However, for tasks outside the capabilities of AI, consultants using AI were less likely to produce correct solutions. The study also identified two patterns of successful AI use: "Centaurs" who divide tasks between themselves and AI, and "Cyborgs" who completely integrate their task flow with AI. The paper highlights the expanding but uneven capabilities of AI and the challenges and opportunities it presents in...

Harvard Business School • readwise.io

A long time is not the same as never

It might feel like an endless slog now, but when the innovation appears, people won’t remember how long it took to get here. Often, we assume that today’s snapshot is actually the entire movie, but it rarely is.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

AI Is About to Completely Change How You Use Computers • Gates Notes

Antidepressants and the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression • Tony Kendrick

Antidepressants and the serotonin hypothesis of depression

Antidepressants remain an effective treatment for depression, even without the “chemical imbalance” explanation A recent umbrella review of evidence for the serotonin theory of depression1 was widely reported in UK media as showing that depression is not caused by low levels of serotonin or a “chemical imbalance” and therefore casting doubt on the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants by millions of people.2345 The review brought together existing systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and large dataset analyses on associations between depression and concentrations of serotonin and its metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in body fluids; serotonin 5-HT1A receptor binding; serotonin transporter (SERT) levels measured by imaging or postmortem analysis; tryptophan depletion; SERT gene polymorphism; and SERT gene-environment interactions. It reported no consistent evidence to support the hypothesis that depression is caused by reduced serotonin activity, and called for acknowle...

Tony Kendrick • www.bmj.com

Review that questioned serotonin theory of depression was flawed, say researchers

A group of scientists have said a review which concluded there was no consistent evidence of a relationship between serotonin and depression was biased and seriously flawed.1 Last July a systematic umbrella review, published in Molecular Psychiatry , concluded “there is no convincing evidence that depression is associated with or caused by lower serotonin concentrations or activity” and questioned the reasons behind high prescribing rates of antidepressants.23 Writing in the same journal, 36 researchers have criticised the paper saying there were methodological weaknesses in the review process, selective reporting of data, oversimplification, and errors in the interpretation of neuropsychopharmacological findings. Lead author of the comment piece, Sameer Jauhar, senior clinical lecturer in affective disorders and psychosis at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, said the authors “presented no new analyses of the data, used their own criteria for assessing...

Jacqui Wise • www.bmj.com

The reluctant spammer

“I don’t want to send this pitch to a list of every single podcaster in the world, but we have to get the word out.” “I don’t want to send an email to every one of our previous donors every three days until they unsubscribe, but our work is so important, it has to be […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The OpenAI Keynote

OpenAI’s developer keynote was exciting, both because AI was exciting, and because OpenAI has the potential to be a meaningful consumer tech company.

Ben Thompson • stratechery.com

Making architecture easy

Unlike nearly all other arts, architecture is inherently public and shared. That means that buildings should be designed to be agreeable – easy to like – not to be unpopular works of genius.

worksinprogress.co • worksinprogress.co

The amateur presenter

Not “amateur” as in the unprepared professional. Amateur as in the passionate individual, untrained but with something to say. If you’re called on to give a talk or presentation, …

Seth's Blog • seths.blog

Introduction

Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.

worksinprogress.co • books.worksinprogress.co

I just attended a talk on the mathematics of diffusion...

I just attended a talk on the mathematics of diffusion image generation models and it blew me away. Takeaways: 1. The math is very “simple” 2. In fact, it’s so simple that this method *shouldn’t really work* 3. The fact it does says something very fundamental about the universe

Quantian • twitter.com

Finding the glitch

Many moths are attracted to light. That works fine when it’s a bright moon and an open field, but not so well for the moths if the light was set up as a bug trap. Processionary caterpillars follow the one in front until their destination, even if they’re arranged in a circle, leading them to […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

the daily routine that changed my life

The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness.

Dan Koe • email

AI-powered agents are the future of computing | Bill Gates

In 5 years, agents will be able to give health care advice, tutor students, do your shopping, help workers be far more productive, and much more

Bill Gates • www.gatesnotes.com

Heavy Lemon Tuna

It’s easy to smirk at the ridiculous images one can make in twenty seconds with AI. People used to smirk at photographs in the 1800s. “I’ll believe it when I see it,” is no longer a useful thing to say. Truth is real, photos are not.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Weekly Dose of Optimism #68

devday, DACs, Zepbound, Turmeric, Humane, AoM e4

Daniel McCormick • www.notboring.co

The amateur presenter

Not “amateur” as in the unprepared professional. Amateur as in the passionate individual, untrained but with something to say. If you’re called on to give a talk or presentation, the biggest trap to avoid is the most common: Decide that you need to be just like a professional presenter, but not quite as good. Being […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Hyperbolic Tapering Off Antidepressants Limits Withdrawal • Peter Simons

Hyperbolic Tapering off Antidepressants Limits Withdrawal

New research by Jim van Os and Peter Groot finds that using hyperbolic tapering to discontinue antidepressants reduces withdrawal effects.

Peter Simons • www.madinamerica.com

The paradigm flip

Paradigm shifts are appealing but rarely well executed. A paradigm is our mental model of the world. We’re surrounded by people who share a similar model, and as long as the model is working, we live our lives without thinking much about it. If you lived in a space station, the absence of gravity would […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

4 hours left

Dan Koe • email

tonight is the night

If you want to find meaning, reinvent yourself, and create your ideal future: The Art Of Focus (my book) Keepsake Edition price increases tonight.

Dan Koe • email

Tech is Going to Get Much Bigger

What happens when energy, intelligence, and labor get cheap?

Packy McCormick • www.notboring.co

“We used to do that”

When electricity came along, there was a swath of industries that were trapped in an old way of thinking. The only ones that thrived were able to walk away from what they used to do and eagerly embrace something new. When the internet was young, the major book publishers had everything they needed to create […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

the last one until next year

The book is a practical yet philosophical guide to find meaning, reinvent yourself, and create your ideal future by forging your own path with modern technology.

Dan Koe • email

Project resistance

In Steven Pressfield’s classic The War of Art, he introduces the idea of Resistance. It’s the internal force that keeps us from doing our most important creative work. If an instinct, a habit or a feeling gets in the way of the work, it’s Pressfield’s Resistance. Things we would never choose to add to the […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

the anti depressant era

The introduction of sertraline in 1992 and paroxetine in 1993 led aggregate SSRI use to increase to 46% of depression patients by 1993.

The antidepressant era. • www.google.com

The first nine minutes

Mixing up a batch of homemade vegan marshmallow Fluff® is an exercise in patience. For the first nine minutes of the ten minutes it takes in the mixer, not much happens. And then, it transforms into something fluffy and delightful. Without the recipe, it’s unlikely that most folks would make it to minute five, never […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Patience

It’s worth the most when it’s the most difficult to find.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

making money is spiritual

They get locked into what they think is a “higher” perspective that demonizes the sleazy salesman. In reality, this is an illusion.

Dan Koe • email

The power of expectations

When we raise our expectations for a student, a friend or a co-worker, we open the door to possibility. We offer them dignity and a chance to grow. We are offering them trust. But if we become attached to those expectations, if the expectation unmet leads us to distress or unhappiness, then that attachment undermines […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Weekly Dose of Optimism

Mini Lasers, Giant Reactors, DNA Origami, AoM e3, AI EO, Palmer

Daniel McCormick • www.notboring.co

The community orchestra

There are people who get paid to play the flute or bassoon. There are far more people who volunteer to participate in a community orchestra. For many, rehearsals or performances are the high points of their day. The metaphor is powerful, because it teaches us that we all benefit from having a community orchestra in […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Anti-Patterns of 10x Thinking

Pete Flint and Adam Grant discuss Adam's new book, Think Again, about the counterintuitive and competitive advantages of rethinking.

Pete Flint • www.nfx.com

Reinventing Existing vs. Creating New Markets • Pete Flint

Reinventing Existing vs. Creating New Markets

This essay helps Founders identify and anticipate the nuances between reinventing an existing market and creating a new one.

Pete Flint • www.nfx.com

Commonplace technology

Not all tech is new tech. The ballpoint pen was a revelation, and a bit controversial. Now, it’s disposable and obvious. Different industries go through tech spurts. My desk is covered with items I use every day (a mouse, headphones, a solid-state drive, transparent tape, and even a Star Trek communicator) that were risky breakthroughs, […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Two ways to defend the status quo

Neither is true, helpful or generous. Both happen all the time. Call it out when you see it.

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Medicine's Endgame

The past, present, and future of cell-based therapy

Elliot Hershberg • www.notboring.co

Confronting consciousness

Everyone knows what it is to be conscious, and we imagine that other people are also aware. That we have a voice in our heads, apparent agency and free will, a little person inside who is commenting, making decisions and in charge. We’re not sure if dogs have this, and we’re pretty sure that sunflowers […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine

Shopify’s director of production engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things

Dan Shipper • every.to

The Executive Order on AI issued by the White House...

The Executive Order on AI issued by the White House today represents the beginning of a complete overhaul of the regulatory landscape for healthcare AI. Here are my notes on what matters from the 100+ pages:

Will Manidis • twitter.com

okay I made it not as expensive

But then I started figuring out how to coordinate an event, and I don't think having 2,000 people there for my first time would turn out well lol.

Dan Koe • email

The 2 x 4 lessons

You’ll need two 8-foot boards and six five-gallon buckets. Each board is a standard 2 x 4, about two inches by four inches in size. And the bucket is about two feet deep. The first lesson is simple: Put the board on the floor and have a colleague walk from one end to the other. […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Three things about innovation

New approaches will never be embraced by everyone at first. If you need unanimous consent, you’re not going to move forward. And it’s not convenient. If it were, someone would have done it already. Finally, it’s not sure to work. If you need any or all three of these things for your project to move […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

The Art Of Focus Official Book Summary

It's on Conscious Business and why those who think money is evil (usually the "higher" or more noble people) are usually the manipulative and evil ones.

Dan Koe • email

How is the US economy managing to power ahead of Europe?

Economists predict transatlantic gap will continue to widen in the coming years

Financial Times • www.ft.com

Big science

To win a Nobel prize a hundred years ago, you might only need a legal pad and a few pencils. Today, it takes millions of dollars, scores of people and many years of effort. That’s because the most straightforward problems have been solved. One side effect of this inevitable shift is that many parts of […]

Seth Godin • seths.blog

Age of Miracles

Launching Season 1: Nuclear Energy

Packy McCormick • www.notboring.co

Manage Your Capacity, Not Your Time • James Stanier

System Design Case Study #2: How GitHub Indexes Code For Blazing Fast Search & Retrieval

GitHub coded their search engine from scratch in Rust called Project Blackbird because existing off-the-shelf solutions didn't fit their requirements at the

Scaleyourapp • scaleyourapp.com

Time Management

We never have enough time. So we need to make the most of what we have. Managing it like an investment portfolio can help.

boz.com • boz.com

Fwd: Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator

YC seems like a reasonable proposition. They give you some money to help you start your business, and they promise you access to a community of people that can help you along the way.

Jack Weatherilt • email

Manage Your Capacity, Not Your Time

We obsess over managing our time. However, we should focus on managing our capacity instead: it's our ability to do our best work.

James Stanier • theengineeringmanager.substack.com

She Sacrificed Her Youth to Get the Tech Bros to Grow Up

As a young industrial designer, Patricia Moore undertook a radical experiment in aging. Her discoveries reshaped the built world.

Lexi Pandell • www.wired.com

Fwd: 11 Juicy Startup Ideas That You Should Totally Take • Jack Weatherilt

Underrated ideas in psychology

How to build a barn door

Adam Mastroianni • www.experimental-history.com

I’m So Sorry for Psychology’s Loss, Whatever It Is • experimental-history.com

Fwd: Can AI and ML Predict Depression? • Jack Weatherilt

Fwd: Can AI and ML Predict Depression? • Jack Weatherilt

My Site

CV | PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH | TEACHING

weebly.com • robinaugh.weebly.com

Fwd: Can AI and ML Predict Depression? • Jack Weatherilt

The Cadence

How to Operate a SaaS Startup

David Sacks • sacks.substack.com

Your Startup Is a Movement • David Sacks

EE380 Talk

I was asked at short notice to fill in for a speaker in Stanford's EE380 course who had to cancel. Below the fold is a hastily updated vers...

David. • blog.dshr.org

Biotech for the Biocurious

A field guide for the great biological century (with Shak Lakhani)

Will Manidis • minutes.substack.com

Your Startup Is a Movement

How Founders Should Think About Marketing

David Sacks • sacks.substack.com

How To Be Successful

I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up...

Sam Altman • blog.samaltman.com

Lucid Lane Secures Series A Funding to Grow Our Platform and Services

When we started Lucid Lane in June 2018, our mission was to empower people living with medication dependence (starting with benzodiazepines…

Lucid Lane • lucidlanehealth.medium.com