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Business How to avoid the “Panglossian trap” and make better decisions Voltaire’s wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
The Future AI can strategically lie to humans. Are we in trouble? “If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception.”
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Health Is this the hangover cure we’ve been waiting for? The hangover “cures” on the market don’t work. A new hydrogel does.
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Business “Culture lasts: Business is just a tactic” Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Business How to use the “spotlight effect” to get promoted and be less stressed It’s good to be a wallflower. But sometimes, you need to show yourself off a bit.
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Perception Box How to give your pain meaning, with Nike athlete Tunde Oyeneyin Nike athlete and famed Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin shares how she turned her pain into purpose. ▸ 7 min — with Tunde Oyeneyin
Business Rebuilding is easy: Rethinking is hard Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Thinking Daniel Kahneman’s transformative insights on rationality and happiness Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
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Business 4 essential tactics for honing your leadership language Marketing expert Jonah Berger explains how simple tweaks to your word use can have a huge impact on team communication.
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