TED Radio Hour

Tracking what your body needs

When we compare brain activity after movement versus after sitting, the differences are so striking. The brain after movement looks like one certainly far more ready to learn and to work, and yet somewhere along the way, we decided that sitting and staring in front of a computer screen for eight hours straight is the best way to work.

TED Radio Hour

Tracking what your body needs

When we compare brain activity after movement versus after sitting, the differences are so striking. The brain after movement looks like one certainly far more ready to learn and to work, and yet somewhere along the way, we decide that sitting and staring in front of a computer screen for eight hours straight is the best way to work.

TBPN

XBOX RIF, "Manual" Ferrari, SPV Hustle Debate, EV Truck Fraud

Very notable that the first major layoff from a major company just admits that the business is not healthy and doesn't blame it on AI. We have not seen a layoff of this scale that wasn't at least partially credited to like the productivity increases that we're seeing from AI.

TED

A Simple Solution to Fix Workplace Miscommunication | Melissa M. Mikus | TED

Employees and executives, 86 percent of them, blame workplace failure on ineffective communication. And US businesses alone lose $1.2 trillion -- trillion dollars -- a year as a result of miscommunication. So this isn't just about being nice and diplomatic. Miscommunication is expensive.

The Business of Tech

Heidi: the AI scribe shaking up NZ healthcare

if you give every clinician an AI partner that handles the documentation, form filling, evidence search, and routine follow up communication, you effectively add another pair of hands to every consult without hiring another doctor.

TBPN

Etched Founder Joins, AI Creates Jobs, It's OVER for Peptides, Tristan Thompson in the Ultradome

Firms that adopt AI are hiring. They're going on the offensive. I've always said that this is the correct stance for a CEO to take is say, "Yeah, we're getting so much productivity. We're going to crush our competitors. We're staffing up."

TED

What Sitting All Day Does to Your Brain and Body | Keith Diaz | TED

Over the course of sitting all day with no movement, people's mood plummets while their fatigue builds and builds. And that's because our muscles have a symbiotic relationship with our brains. They're in constant communication. Our biological need to contract muscle is more than just about physical health and metabolism. It's also foundational to mental and brain health.

TED

Can Play Change the World? | Play@TED Full Event | TED, the LEGO Group and the LEGO Foundation

We are living through a play deprivation crisis. We've systematically removed everything that makes play what it is — the spontaneity, the freedom, the wonder — from all parts of adult life and replaced it with efficiency and achievement. And in doing so, we're losing the very survival skills that we need the most right now.

The a16z Show

Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok on AI, Jobs, and Economic Growth

Throughout history, productivity-enhancing technologies have transformed work, created new industries, and expanded living standards, even as they disrupted existing jobs and institutions.

Hidden Brain

Unleashing Your Creativity

Most people assume that creativity is a fixed trait — you either have it or you don't. But research suggests that creativity is less like a gift and more like a muscle: it can be developed, strengthened, and yes, sometimes exhausted.

Hidden Brain

Unleashing Your Creativity

Most people think about creativity as a gift — something you either have or you don't. But research suggests that creativity is less like a trait and more like a muscle: it can atrophy if you don't use it, and it can grow stronger with practice.

Hidden Brain

Unleashing Your Creativity

Psychologist Ap Dijksterhuis explores the hidden mental processes that lead to these moments of inspiration, and why breakthroughs often emerge when the mind is at rest.

Hidden Brain

Unleashing Your Creativity

Most people assume that creativity is a trait — you either have it or you don't. But research suggests that creativity is less like a fixed ability and more like a muscle: it can be strengthened with practice, and it can also atrophy when it goes unused.

EconTalk

Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)

Most people end up in their jobs through a combination of accident and inertia. They don't really think carefully about what they could do with their career. And yet your career is probably the biggest opportunity you have to do good in the world, if that's what you care about.

Hidden Brain

The Cowboy Philosopher

Will Rogers once said, 'Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.' He understood that good intentions and correct positioning aren't enough — you have to keep moving.

Hidden Brain

The Cowboy Philosopher

Will Durant spent his whole life worrying that he was a failure. He wrote 13 volumes of The Story of Civilization over 50 years, a project so vast it seems almost incomprehensible. And he was worried he was a failure.

EconTalk

Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)

What do the inventor of the periodic table, the novelist Isabel Allende, and the almost-creators of the iPhone have in common? Join author David Epstein and EconTalk's Russ Roberts to explore a counterintuitive idea: that boundaries, and not unlimited freedom, often make us more creative, productive, and fulfilled.

EconTalk

Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)

that boundaries, and not unlimited freedom, often make us more creative, productive, and fulfilled

EconTalk

Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)

boundaries, and not unlimited freedom, often make us more creative, productive, and fulfilled

The Business of Tech

The Business of Tech: AI is eating market research

what if you could get the same quality of insight that used to take six weeks and tens of thousands of dollars overnight for a fraction of the cost.

TBPN

🟣 The Collison Brothers LIVE on TBPN

AI is making every little step of entrepreneurship slightly easier, like slightly easier to incorporate, slightly easier to create a contract or to hire somebody, slightly easier to create an ad, and then you add all of that together.

It's Been a Minute

You might be suffering from AI brain fry

There's something kind of comically tragic about the idea that these tools that were meant to lighten our loads seem to be doing the opposite for some.

Daily Stoic

A Month of the BEST Lessons from Marcus Aurelius

You always have the power to have no opinion. Things are not asking to be judged by you. Don't turn this into something. The fewer opinions you have, the fewer judgments you make, the more you're able to just leave things as they are, the happier you will be, the more productive you will be, the more focused you will be, and the easier you will be to get along with.

TED

What to Do When You’re Told There’s Nothing Left to Try | David Fajgenbaum, Kiah Williams | TED

Sometimes motivation follows motion. Not the other way around. And so I think sometimes literally just by putting one foot in front of the other, you don't have to have 100 percent of the answer.

Book of the Day

Sarvat Hasin's new novel is about a magnetic friendship between 'Strange Girls'

Creativity and talent and drive are not the only things that make authors. Writing is something that requires quite a lot of time and time is very expensive and the piece that you need to have that time is expensive.

TBPN

Inside Bezos’ Plan to Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing With AI

As manufacturing gets cheaper like the tools that you use, the cars that you drive, the washing machine in your home, uh the tires on your cars, uh all these different things get better, not just cheaper, but actually unlock new capabilities and new things that people people enjoy.

TBPN

OpenAI Ends Side Quests, SF Housing Market is Back, Kalshi’s $1B Prize | Diet TBPN

We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests. Side quests is the key. We really have to nail productivity in general and particularly productivity on the business front.

Daily Stoic

How to Focus (From the Stoics)

You think you're taking revenge bedtime by staying up and scrolling your phone or watching TV or or even reading, which is isn't is hardly a sin. But by staying up late, you are making it harder to get up early.