If you turn to children's fiction, you can, I think, find what endures of us when all our adult compromises and poses are stripped away. You can, I think, find the very meat of the human heart.
The way the judges have justified putting people in prison is by saying, 'We don't know if solitary confinement or decades in jail will make them more radical, and therefore we need to keep these defendants in prison for longer.' And with that logic, no one can actually win their freedom.
The most beautifully symmetric object in physics is not the intricate snowflake or something like that of Mcsher but rather once again coming back to my cow as a sphere a sphere. There's nothing more beautiful than a sphere because there's nothing more symmetric than a sphere.
We assume that what's in our head is plain to see to everyone around us. But the thoughts and feelings we have are invisible to others. And when we forget this, and communicate as if our inner world is on full display, conversations go wrong.
The NFL tried to send a very clear message that if you protest police killing Black folks, if you fight for a better society and better community, we're going to try to take your career from you. I don't accept that that is going to be the end outcome of this, and will do everything I can to make sure that I change that narrative.
And so these two very smart real estate guys, not knowing the history, not knowing the complexities, they can parachute in and they can make peace because they're smart and they're quick and they're not burdened by all the baggage of the past.
Budgets reflect values and our values right now or our tax system reflects our values. Our values are that sweat is less noble than money. And that is the money money makes gets taxed at a lower rate.
The really great venture investments have tended to come from areas that very few people, at the time of first investment, thought would amount to anything. And the skill is in identifying those areas before they become fashionable, before they become obvious, before everybody is clamoring to invest in them.
You can be 22 years old, not graduate from college, go into the Navy, enlist in the Navy, not even in the officer training program, and in 18 months you can be responsible for the security of a nuclear power plant on a submar. Your pdoom on nuclear is completely irrelevant to you doing this job, right?
Nations are increasingly spending time trying to regulate what big tech companies do. The content they host, the ads they sell, the harms their algorithms cause to teenagers. But we always never look at what they are, the legal architecture that the state itself hands them.
Keith believes intelligence can replace much of the rigid schema behind traditional software, and what changes when AI has enough context to reason about a company and its customers.
And basically, what they said was, it doesn't really matter if he's taking a salary or he's taking a salary of a dollar a year or whatever, it doesn't matter. What matters is that he's acting as a government employee. He's acting as an agent of the United States government. And that in every conceivable way, Jared Kushner is a government employee, whether he's making money at it or not.
I feel the word 'creator' was created by the social media companies as a way to trick people into entering an extremely inequitable economic bargain. Basically they promise, 'Hey, Mr. Beast makes a billion dollars. You could be Mr. Beast. Why don't you work for us basically for free for the rest of your life in the hopes that one day, we'll break off a little chunk of ad revenue for you?' Creator is like when Avon or Mary Kay calls you an entrepreneur.
his team followed customers from AI presentations into sales workflows and eventually found a harder problem: making sense of the fragmented and often conflicting data spread across a company's emails, calls, CRM, and other systems.
We assume that the people we're talking to understand us, that they grasp what we mean. But research shows that we are often wrong about this. We think we're communicating clearly, but the other person is operating on a completely different set of assumptions.
The negative perception that we often receive is connected to how we're portrayed on TV shows and in film. And that's what's harmful. I feel like it just feeds into this idea that like black women are just wild and crazy and all that kind of thing and they can just snap in any minute and start fighting. And for some people it confirms that and even more so because it's called reality TV.
Most people think of conversations as cooperative endeavors where two people are working together to exchange information. But Deborah Tannen has spent her career documenting how conversations are also performances — rituals laden with hidden rules about status, connection, and identity. When those hidden rules collide, we don't just miscommunicate; we wound each other without ever knowing why.
I think there's a problem when people have to look at their sleep tracker to figure out whether they feel well rested. You shouldn't have to like wake up like a how did I sleep last night? Like that should be something that people can get from kind of being in touch with their own bodies.
It's not that war causes interest rates to go up. It's war causes energy shortages which causes inflation and inflation bleeds into everything. So pain at the pump turns into I need a raise for this. I need to raise prices on food. I need to raise prices on all sorts of things. Energy is of course a key input into everything.
The WNBA's rise has been fueled as much by a love for hoops as for the politics of it all. The league is obviously predominated by women who are black or queer or both and who are also really politically outspoken and all of that helped draw in lots of new liberal fans. But it also helped make the W a target of conservatives and the volume of that tension has really ratcheted up this year.
I have no way to tell what any of the words that I speak, that are feathered things on the breath of air, how will they be received and how will my chaos be dispersed to the winds. I have no way to control any of that.
I didn't want to play Tasty in the beginning. Why not? You know, because she was an inmate and because I was nervous coming out of Juilliard, 21 years old, like, oh my gosh, I'm about to play an inmate and what is that, you know, saying about Black women, you know, what viewpoint am I putting out about Black women?
This revolution is being led by China. That is the key difference. China is at the forefront of this cluster of new technologies that promise to fundamentally reshape the way industry, commerce and actually our daily lives around the world will change and evolve over time.
Bullying is not conflict. It's not a debate, it's not criticism, it's not humor that you're too sensitive to take well. It is a deliberately targeted, serial, escalating pattern of attacks carried out by multiple people, and it's intended to destroy a person's reputation and their ability to contribute.
We often assume that the people we're talking with see the world the way we do — and when they say something that seems strange or hostile, we interpret it through that lens. But much of the time, the other person is operating with an entirely different set of assumptions, and neither party realizes they're not actually having the same conversation.
I think that I was really ignoring my personal relationship with the cello. I think I was using the cello as a tool, trying to extract all the good that I could from it in a way that would make an impact for other people. But I wasn't really considering, what does this sound, what does this practice mean for me?
We often think that the source of conflict in our relationships is a difference of opinions or values. But much of the time, the problem is something more fundamental: we think we're communicating clearly, when we're actually not communicating at all.
I would only be into this if he was like, 'All the money that I've earned from crypto while I've been in the White House, I'm just going to give that to people for $5,000. I don't want to give him taxpayer money.'
Home Depot went public in 1981, one year after Apple Computer. And astonishingly, if you put $1,000 into Home Depot and Apple and their IPOs and you held them all today, your investment in Home Depot would beat your investment in Apple. And if you reinvested the dividends that it paid out, it has compounded at nearly 25% per year for 45 years.
Every single marriage has a prenup. It's either one that was written by the government and can be modified by the state legislature of the state in which you reside or it's written by you and the person you allegedly like more than the other 8 billion options in the world.
I saw how people would treat me when I'm by myself versus when my parents were there. And I also knew that our house wasn't one that talked about race or talked about issues or problems more broadly. And again, instinctively, as a black boy, I didn't think they would believe me.
obeying bad incentives--shading a headline for clicks, keeping the found wallet because no one's watching--is "loser behavior," a surrender of the hardest and most human task: figuring out right from wrong for yourself.
There is no substitute for a tough piece of feedback from someone who cares about us. And when we can make it safe enough for the people in our lives to tell us those hard things, it not only benefits us, it can spark transformation in our workplaces and in our families.
what the AI assistant of the future might actually look like: persistent, proactive, personalized, and capable of doing work on your behalf rather than waiting for another prompt
If you're saying there's such a thing as too much violence, then you're automatically saying there's such a thing as just enough. You know what is too much rape? I don't understand. What is just enough rape?
Software engineering is verifiable, you can run it through the compiler and see if it works. AI has obviously gotten really good at making software. If you believe the world is just software, that means AI has gotten good, it's done. You can see the labs are talking about how they've achieved AGI or they will very soon and it is very much connected to the ability of AI to write software. I'm just not discounting that that's important. I'm just saying once you get outside of software, verifiability gets way harder.
The most successful people that I've ever worked for or interviewed, and I mean like some of the wealthiest people in the world, they're not people who said, "I've made enough money," but they're people who changed the measure and stopped just measuring themselves based on how much money they have.
And the feedback is that when I'm not at my best, I come across as arrogant, condescending, self-righteous and a know-it-all -- which is a really nice combination and a great way to make friends, if you're interested.
just as language models became general-purpose engines for working with text, world models could become a horizontal layer for visual and physical intelligence across industries from entertainment and gaming to construction and robotics.
Most of us are familiar with the pull of a fresh start. But researcher Kristina Olson has found something surprising: people who make dramatic life changes — who blow up their lives — often report higher levels of well-being than those who stay the course, even when the change involves significant loss and hardship.
Because if wise people, if good people, if people who try to live and act with virtue, if they don't seek public office, if they don't participate in public life, if they don't vote, if they don't speak out, you know what is happening? They're ceding that floor to the people who are not.
it's a place that's been treated like a wasteland for a really long time. And that story has been very cooperative and convenient for extraction and exploitation of the natural resources.
If you can align and interconnect who am I, what I believe, and what I'm doing, if you can connect those three dots, your chance of meaning making goes way up. If you can't connect those dots, your chances of meaning making goes way down. You can't connect a dot you've not articulated.
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