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🎙️ How I AI: GPT-6 Astra is a banger + Stripe’s AI playbook + Grok Bot vs. OpenClaw: why I replaced my entire agent stack

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The lesson is not that agents need approval for everything. It is that they should act independently on low-risk work and involve a human when the consequences are meaningful.

TED

How AI Is Breaking the Internet (and What to Do About It) | Matthew Prince | TED

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For the first time in human history, we have a mathematical model of all of human knowledge. It's not perfect, but that's essentially what all of the LLMs are.

The a16z Show

Can Open Source Keep AI Power From Concentrating?

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today's concentration may be a feature of the current technological paradigm rather than a permanent feature of AI. Transformers reward enormous amounts of data and compute, but future breakthroughs could make smaller, more specialized models far more capable.

Hidden Brain

The Things We Don't Say

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We often assume that the people around us — our friends, family members, and coworkers — are perfectly aware of how much we appreciate them. But research suggests that people dramatically underestimate the impact of expressing gratitude. The person receiving the message feels far better than the sender ever expected.

Code Switch

Why you shouldn't bring your full self to work

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To be your authentic self at work is um a level of like vulnerability and putting yourself forward when like you're sacrificing time with your family, with your community, mentally with yourself and these jobs expect so much from you, but you are ultimately disposable.

themarginalian.org

The True Purpose of Tarot

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Just as the primary function of prayer is to clarify our own hopes and fears, to hone our priorities and reassert our values, the primary purpose of tarot is not to give us a telescope aimed at the frontiers of the future but a microscope aimed at the most elusive intricacies of the self.

Book of the Day

Author Liane Moriarty on her long-awaited sequel to 'Big Little Lies'

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I guess I can remember reading books when I was younger about older women and thinking, uh, isn't that interesting? They're still they still have a a rich inner life. They're still people,

whyisthisinteresting

The Monday Media Diet with Emma Näpänkangas

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I'm also not aboard the culture of quickly abandoning books or articles when they do not interest you - I think it's good to be challenged, and I've found absolute gems of ideas when I've continued to read pieces with an open mind.

noahpinion.blog

AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs

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But of companies that did report a change, more reported an increase than a decrease! And here's the breakdown by sector... Among firms using AI, 44% say it supplemented or enhanced work an employee already does. Ten percent say it performed a task an employee used to do. Eleven percent say it introduced a task no one had been doing.

Daily Stoic

What It Means To Be A Good Man Today With Tom Junod

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The Christian argument is like don't sin or you will go to hell. And I think the stoic argument is don't sin or you will live in hell.

Hidden Brain

The Things We Don't Say

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We often assume that other people can read our minds — that our feelings, intentions, and inner states are transparent to those around us. But research suggests we dramatically overestimate how much others know about what we're thinking and feeling, while simultaneously underestimating how much our own silence shapes the way others perceive us.

TED

How to Make Learning Impossibly Fun | Mark Rober | TED

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It's kind of the most important job in on the planet and so and they're not compensated as well as they like we should be ashamed I think I said that like we should be ashamed of like the support teachers actually get um for the importance of what they do

honest-broker.com

Amazon is Polluted

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Before the advent of the worldwide web, I sometimes searched bookstore shelves for years before finding a desired volume. But Amazon made it possible to acquire those hard-to-get books with just the click of a mouse.

The a16z Show

Your AI Doctor Is Coming | Julie Yoo

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Because healthcare never built the same layers of legacy software as other industries, it may now be able to leapfrog directly into agentic AI.

readtheprofile.com

The Profile: Apple’s new CEO & The financier who wants to save America

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Seventeen years ago, Elizabeth Stein started making muffin mix in her Upper West Side kitchen for a handful of nutrition clients. She had no business plan, bootstrapped, and waited years to take outside money. Last month, she sold Purely Elizabeth to Ferrero for an estimated $850 million while also remaining CEO.