Things I'm doing at 43 to avoid regret when I'm 83:

Hobbies that will make you dangerously intelligent:

A Stanford team proved AI detectors call human writing fake more than 61% of the time, then found the fastest way to pass the test was to let ChatGPT rewrite the essay for you. I had to reread the study, because it sounds like a joke and it's being used to punish people every day. The team was led by James Zou. They took 91 essays written by real students preparing for an English exam for foreign speakers. They fed them to seven of the most popular AI detectors on the market. On average, more than 61% came back flagged as machine-written. 89 of the 91 essays got flagged by at least one detector. Then they ran essays by American eighth graders through the same seven detectors. Almost perfect scores. Human, human, human. The reason is almost insulting once you see it. Most detectors guess by measuring how predictable your words are. A chatbot picks the most likely next word, every time. So does someone writing in their second language, because they reach for the safe word they know instead of the fancy one they're unsure of. Plain English looks like a robot to these machines. So the researchers asked ChatGPT to rewrite the flagged essays with bigger vocabulary. The flag rate crashed from 61% to about 12%. The cure for looking like a machine was letting a machine rewrite you. The company that built ChatGPT already knew this. In January 2023, OpenAI launched its own detector. It caught only 1 in 4 AI-written texts and wrongly accused real humans 1 time in 11. Six months later they switched it off. The note is still on their website. One line. Pulled for its low rate of accuracy. The people who understand this technology best gave up on it. Everyone else kept going. A copywriter once pasted the Declaration of Independence into a detector. It came back 98.51% AI. Thomas Jefferson wrote it with a quill in 1776. We laughed at that one too. This summer it stopped being funny. Jamir Nazir is a 62-year-old writer from Trinidad. In May he won a regional title in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, one of the hardest prizes in the world for unpublished fiction. Within days, a detector called Pangram scored his story 100% artificial. The screenshot spread. Strangers turned his sentences into memes. What they didn't know: Nazir has neuropathy. He can barely type. He dictates his stories into his Android phone and edits them there, a few lines at a time. The prize organizers spent a month going through his drafts, his character notes, even an ending he'd written and thrown away. They cleared him and named him the overall winner. Granta, the magazine that published his story, cut ties with the prize anyway. People still argue about his story, and that's fine. Arguing over evidence is what humans are supposed to do. What bothers me is the order. The number came first. The drafts came a month later. By then his mother had already heard what the internet was saying about her son. In July, Substack gave every reader a button to scan any post for AI. Medium's CEO, Tony Stubblebine, said the part out loud: people cheating on purpose just run their text through a "humanizer" app and walk straight past the detector. The only people left to catch are the honest ones. And the math doesn't care how good the detector is. Say it's wrong once in every 10,000 scans. Run it millions of times on a platform and real writers get branded as fakes every single week. Now take the human out of the loop. Today a teacher still reads the score and decides. Picture the version where nobody does. A hiring system that silently throws away every cover letter scoring above 80% AI. You never hear back. You never find out why. An immigration office screening personal statements the same way, hitting hardest the people Stanford already proved it gets wrong: anyone writing in their second language. This isn't science fiction. Freelance writers were already losing clients over detector scores back in 2024. A person who wrongly accuses you can be questioned. They can apologize. They can be fired. A score can't. It just runs again tomorrow on the next million people, just as sure of itself, just as wrong. We can't hand verdicts to software that flagged a Founding Father. So what should we do instead? Let a score buy a conversation, never a punishment. Even Turnitin, the biggest name in school detection, tells teachers not to use its AI score as the only reason to act against a student. Ask for the drafts. Ask the person to walk you through one paragraph. Nazir's truth came out of a folder of old versions, not a percentage. Stamp the machine instead of interrogating the human. Google already marks text written by Gemini in a way software can read, and Europe's new rules, live since August, push every AI company to do the same. If the label is baked in at the source, nobody has to guess who wrote what. Guessing is the whole problem. These tools look at your sentences and make a bet on your honesty. When they lose the bet, you pay. If a detector flagged the last thing you wrote, what proof do you have sitting on your laptop right now?

Automation, AI, digitization and offshoring are coming for desk jobs. I watched it happen to my industry first. So I sold all the trucks from my trucking business. Then I went looking for the opposite kind of business. Here’s where I ended up (& why):

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on how AI's hunger for power is reshaping the future of energy: Jensen starts by acknowledging the obvious. AI runs on a new kind of infrastructure, and that infrastructure needs power: "It is true that artificial intelligence requires this new type of data center called AI factories." He explains how these factories work. Energy comes in, it is used to process information, and the output is intelligence. That output matters: "The intelligence is obviously incredibly important for science and education and industry and it's promoting growth. But it does require energy." To show why energy sits at the center of this shift, Jensen goes back several hundred years: "This is a new industrial revolution." He points out that the first industrial revolution "started because England discovered the manufacturing of energy and the ability to produce and distribute energy which is what made the world what it is today." Energy powered the last revolution, and it will power this one too: "We need energy for this next industrial revolution." This is where AI's hunger for power becomes something more than a cost. Jensen argues that the sheer size of the demand is what opens the door: "The irony of it... it is also the case that AI has the greatest opportunity for us to invest in sustainable energy. And the reason for that is because we need so much of it." That demand is now drawing capital into every corner of the energy sector: "For the very first time you can now invest in sustainable energy... companies of every single kind." He points to fusion, fission, hydro, and startups of all kinds, with "everybody... racing... to produce the energy necessary for the AI industry." @JensenHuang argues the effect reaches beyond new power sources to the grid that delivers electricity: "So, don't forget, don't ignore that the market forces of AI can help us upgrade our aging grid, invest in sustainable energy in a way that no... country and no government can."

NYU Stern Professor Suzy Welch on "Lanager," the "very unattractive word" she invented to end the leader-versus-manager debate: When she teaches managerial skills, Welch won't use the words "leader" or "manager": "When I teach managerial skills, I refuse to use the word manager or leader. And I've created this very unattractive word, 'Lanager,' which of course, is a blend of those two words, because it's only academics who debate what leaders do versus what managers do." Her reason is that in practice the two jobs can't be separated: "And I actually believe from living in the real world of business that there's really a blend of those two jobs in real life." To show what goes wrong when you pick only one, @SuzyWelch describes both failure modes. The pure leader: "If you're a manager or a leader and all you do is dream big dreams and think and talk about the future in lofty, visionary terms, and you don't actually get anything done, everyone is going to hate you." The pure manager: "And meanwhile, if you're a person who's in the trenches and all you do is sort of the logistical, tactical, this is what we do tomorrow, grunty stuff. And you never go up to the mountaintop and say, here's our vision. Everybody is going to hate you." Opposite habits, same result. The visionary who never delivers and the operator who never explains where the work is going both lose the team. The "Lanager" avoids both by doing some of each, and Welch says this applies at every level: "And it doesn't make any difference if you're managing three people or 300,000 people, the very best people at the top of teams or organizations are doing a little bit of managing and a little bit of leading." The title on your door matters far less than your range. The best people at the top keep moving between the mountaintop and the trenches, and they never settle in either one.

Mark Zuckerberg's advice to 19-year-olds who want to change the world: "Pick something they care about, work on it, but don't actually commit to turning it into a company until it's working."

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says up to 95% of AI's value is still untouched. Even if AI stopped improving today, businesses would be using just 5-10% of what it can already do.

Google is now literally telling businesses specifically how to get traffic from AI Search. Yes, directly within Google Search Console. It's probably one of the most important marketing updates of 2026. Let’s go through it. By the way, you can see whether your business is appearing across Google AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Grok here (it's free): rightcited.com/ Recently Google launched a new Generative AI performance report inside Search Console. At first, it looked like a very limited rollout, but now more and more site owners are seeing it. John Mueller also confirmed that Google is rolling it out incrementally and reviewing feedback along the way. So if you do not see it yet, give it a few days, but the direction is pretty clear. AI Search visibility is becoming something businesses can actually measure, and this report shows how often URLs from your site appear in Google’s generative AI features. Yes, that includes AI Overviews and AI Mode. It can also show which pages appeared, which countries the impressions came from, which devices people were using and how performance changed over time. That matters a lot, because until now, a lot of AI Search tracking has been messy. It has featured a lot of screenshots, manual prompt testing, third party tools, guessing from referral traffic, watching ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Grok and Google manually to see whether your brand appears, etc. Now Google is giving site owners a direct view into whether their pages are appearing inside Google’s own AI features. There is one big limitation, though: this is impression data as opposed to clicks data. Google is showing whether your site appeared inside generative AI features, but it is not yet showing how many people clicked from those AI features to your site. This is where SEO Stuff (seo-stuff.com/gold-plan-pack…) can help. A business can be visible in AI Search and still see fewer clicks than it used to get from traditional search. At the same time, a business can also be completely missing from AI Search and not realize competitors are being shown instead. If your AI impressions are high but clicks are weak, the issue may be the way Google is satisfying the search before the user visits your site. If your AI impressions are low, the issue may be that Google does not understand, trust or retrieve your pages for the questions customers are asking. If only your informational pages appear, but your product, service, pricing, comparison and case study pages do not, that tells you something. If one country shows AI visibility and another does not, that tells you something. If a few pages get most of the AI impressions, that tells you something. This is why the report is such a big deal, and it gives businesses a starting point so you can finally ask better questions. Which pages are showing up in AI Overviews? Which pages are showing up in AI Mode? Which countries are seeing the brand? Which devices are seeing the brand? Which parts of the buying journey are missing? Which content is actually being used by Google’s AI systems? That last question is the one most businesses should care about, and it is the one SEO Stuff solves for brands on a daily basis: seo-stuff.com/premium-conten… A customer can ask a long, complicated question and Google can break that question into several related searches behind the scenes. That means the same business may need useful content around problems, use cases, comparisons, pricing, alternatives, industries, objections, case studies, product details and implementation. One generic service page probably will not cover all of that. A brand with useful content across the full buying journey has more chances to be discovered. Google’s new report will make that easier to see. And this also lines up with what Google just said in its “Good SEO is good GEO” piece. (See my post from yesterday if you missed it.) Google said its generative AI features are rooted in the same core ranking and quality systems as traditional Search. AI Mode and AI Overviews retrieve up-to-date content from Google’s existing search index. So the businesses that want AI visibility still need the same boring foundation: crawlable content, useful pages, clear product information, real expertise, entity clarity, authority, third party validation, etc. That is where SEO Stuff (seo-stuff.com) comes in. The done-for-you package combines 10 AI-search-optimized articles with three DR50+ authority placements: seo-stuff.com/gold-plan-pack… The content helps your business cover the questions customers ask before buying, including problems, use cases, comparisons, pricing, alternatives, industries, objections, case studies, product details and implementation. The authority placements help your business show up across trusted sources that search and AI systems use to understand categories. Google is starting to show businesses whether they are appearing in AI Search. Once something becomes a report, it becomes something clients, founders, CMOs and competitors start paying attention to. If you want to see whether your business is already being cited, understood and recommended across Google AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Grok, check here: seo-stuff.com/free-audit

@ProfSteveKeen says if machines are doing all the work, this is how we are going to make money…

Gavin Baker thinks Grok Bot is another ChatGPT moment, because work that took hours in Claude Code now takes seconds: "You see these 23-year-old kids and just the way they use AI, they're just fluent and native in it. I just feel like maybe in a way that no matter how hard I try, I will never be, and I'm trying really hard." "We got Claude Code. I built some stuff, did some cool stuff, and in, I don't know, 3 minutes of creating Grok Bots, I had much better versions of everything I created." "I love having a podcast summarizer... It takes 10 seconds in Grok Bot. It's amazing, and it's so good." "A Substack summarizer, an X summarizer, an X sentiment tracker for topics and stocks... All of those would have taken me hours working with Claude Code, and they each took 7 to 12 seconds with Grok Bot. And it's better." "To me, Grok Bot does feel like another ChatGPT moment." — Gavin Baker, in conversation with a16z's David George Interested in AI? Follow @AiEvolutio58513 and never fall behind. I track ChatGPT, Claude, and every tool quietly changing how we work and create, then hand you the tested signals.

This is wild... A1 sets a new standard for live avatars, and my proof is a goose personal trainer. I built Coach Honk with A1 from @VivixLabs_HQ. The first thing I told him: “I came here for arms.” He took it personally. Then I asked for a proper squat and he dropped into a full-body demo. After that, he walked over, grabbed a kettlebell and showed me a goblet squat. The kettlebell stayed a kettlebell the whole time. Which is rare in gen AI lol. The whole thing was way smoother than I expected, especially the convo. Answered quickly and kept the back-and-forth natural. Best of all, the characters know how to work with interruptions unlike most AI avatars. Making one is simple. — Go to the Agents tab in Vivix AI — Describe the character you want and how it should behave, then hit enter. It builds the character step by step and once it's done, you can start talking to it. You can also publish your character and share with friends. Talk to Coach Honk here: platform.vivix.ai/playground…

An engineer designed an intersection where nobody ever has to stop, and it works without a single traffic light.

Jim Abbott reveals why he calls being born without a right hand the greatest gift baseball ever gave him: He had every excuse to quit before he ever threw his first pitch, and his answer had nothing to do with toughness: 1. Misfortune is not the opposite of a gift. Most people spend their lives trying to outrun the thing that marks them as different. Abbott built his entire philosophy on the opposite instinct. "I believe that misfortune can be our gift and our strength." He did not say misfortune becomes a gift once you win. He said it already is one, before the outcome is decided. 2. Adaptation is not a skill you learn. It is already inside you. People assume Abbott had to invent some superhuman coping mechanism to survive as a one handed pitcher in the big leagues. "There's a strength and a resiliency in all of us to respond to what comes our way; we have it within us to adapt." The adjustment was never the hard part. Believing he already had the equipment for it was. 3. Strip away the flowery language and you find someone who just loved the work. Sportswriters reached for every inspirational word in the dictionary to describe what Abbott was doing on the mound. "Newspaper owners and journalists came up with all sorts of flowery terms to describe my play, I was courageous, I was remarkable…for me I was just doing something I loved." He refused the mythology. The people who last are rarely chasing a narrative. They are just doing the thing they love, one more day. 4. Every new way of doing something exposes you to doubt. Abbott did not glide into the majors on encouragement alone. He had to earn the right to be taken seriously with a delivery nobody had ever coached. "I learned along the way, that doing things in new ways always involves risk. You have to be willing to take a chance. You will also expose yourself to a lot of skepticism and those who will say you can't do it that way." Skepticism is not a sign you are wrong. It is often the tax you pay for doing something original. 5. Being different is a fact. Letting it define you is a choice. Abbott's message was never that his difference did not matter. It was that the difference did not get the final say. "Be comfortable with trying different ways of getting things done, and be strong enough to ignore the attention that being different might bring." Comfort with the method and indifference to the attention are two separate disciplines. He had to build both. 6. Nobody makes it alone, no matter how self reliant the story sounds. The one handed pitcher myth suggests a solitary kid who willed himself into the majors. Abbott tells it differently. "I benefitted from tremendous encouragement as a kid. So many people reached out to me, helped me, and believed in me when I didn't always believe in myself." Belief is a resource other people lend you before you can generate your own. 7. Different does not mean worse. It means different. This is the line Abbott has repeated to more kids with limb differences than he can count, because it is the one he needed to hear first. "I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well." Just as well, not despite the difference. Because of the way he worked around it. 8. The real prize was never the no hitter. Ask most fans what Abbott's career meant and they will mention September 4, 1993. Abbott measures it differently. "Baseball gave me many great blessings—the people I met, the places I saw, the incomparable feeling of winning a major league baseball game. But maybe the greatest gift was that it helped me come to peace with the burden of being different." Peace was the trophy. The no-hitter was just proof it had arrived. 9. The bullying was real, and he named it instead of hiding it. Abbott does not romanticize the childhood part of the story. He lets it stay ugly. "I felt the teasing and the bullying of the playground," he told CNN Sport. "I keenly felt the awkward second glances in the school hallways and classrooms." He did not skip the hard years to get to the highlight reel. He walked through them in front of everyone. 10. Even the biggest moment of your life will feel smaller than you imagined, and that is fine. Abbott has been asked a thousand times what the no-hitter felt like in real time. His answer is almost anticlimactic. "The things I remember most visibly about that game obviously, were the moments right after it happened," Abbott said. "It was like being in a bubble, with a moment of excitement and then it pops." The bubble pops. Then you go back to being a person who still has to get up tomorrow. Abbott's whole story is a rebuke to the idea that adversity has to be conquered before it counts for anything. He treated the thing that made him a target as the same thing that made him useful to every kid who ever felt broken by a mirror. That is the same math that shows up in every fire station, every platoon, every recovery meeting. You do not wait to be whole to start serving. You serve with exactly what you have, missing pieces included, and the serving is what makes you whole. That is the thread that connects a one handed kid from Flint throwing a no-hitter in Yankee Stadium to anyone standing at their own version of the mound, wondering if the thing that marks them is a disqualification or an assignment. Source video: piped.video/watch?v=J7QyhsJ8… Follow me for more stories like this. Life on the Good Foot: whatever comes, improvise, adapt, and overcome. A veteran, a dog, a mission. ***** P.S. Please subscribe to my newsletter and learn how to live life on the good foot: substack.com/@bjganem

This is Avero, a drone built by researchers at ETH Zurich, and it's made to crash. No exposed propellers. The air flows through enclosed ducts, so there's nothing to snap or shatter on impact. Slam it into a wall, a pole, even a person, and it bounces off and keeps flying. Collapsed buildings. Tight tunnels. Crowded rooms. It can go where normal drones break. The drone's biggest weakness is gone.

Yann LeCun: we are not going to get human-level intelligence or AGI by just scaling LLMs. “There’s absolutely no way in hell.” “The idea that we’re gonna have a country of geniuses in a data center, that’s complete BS.” “It may feel like you have a PhD sitting next to you.” “But it’s not a PhD.” “It’s a system with gigantic memory and retrieval ability, not one that can invent solutions to new problems.”

AI is getting out of hand 😂

🚨 Jensen Huang Says Something Seems REALLY Off About the AI Labs’ Doomer Narrative JENSEN: “I really don't believe that they're building something they have no idea how to control. Their whole company is out of control…” ANDERSON: “So why are they saying this?” JENSEN: “You're going to have to ask them.” ANDERSON: “I've talked to Dario Amodei and he says this is what I think.” JENSEN: “It doesn't make any sense to me that he would be racing ahead, building more compute then.”

In 2001, Mark Ruffalo jolted awake in the middle of the night after dreaming he had a brain tumor. He felt completely fine. No pain, no symptoms, nothing. But the dream shook him enough that he asked the doctor on his film set to get him checked. A scan the next day found it. A tumor the size of a golf ball, sitting right behind his left ear. It wasn't cancer, but it was pressing on a nerve in his face and had to come out. The warning from doctors was brutal: surgery could leave him deaf, half his face paralyzed, or both. And the timing couldn't have been worse. His wife was about to give birth to their first child. So he kept quiet. He carried the diagnosis alone until a week after their son arrived. When he finally told her, she didn't believe him. She thought it was a joke. Weeks later, he went under the knife. He woke up unable to move the left side of his face, and unable to hear anything in his left ear. It took almost a year for his face to come back. His hearing never did. The man who plays the Hulk has been deaf in one ear ever since.

THINGS WORTH MAKING A FAMILY TRADITION BEFORE THE KIDS GROW UP. The little things become the biggest memories. 1. Birthday breakfast together.

A guy spent $1,200 on a new iPhone and used it the same way he used his old one. Same apps. Same layout. Same routine. He charged it twice a day, ran out of storage every few months, and assumed that's just how iPhones work now. His sister, an Apple Store technician for 5 years, picked it up over dinner and started scrolling through his settings. She looked at him and said: "You have a $1,200 phone running like a $200 phone. Your battery is draining because 34 apps are refreshing in the background around the clock. Your storage is full because you've never turned on the one setting that fixes it. And right now, 22 apps are tracking your exact location including 9 you haven't opened in over a year." She changed 11 settings in 9 minutes. His battery went from dying at 3pm to lasting the full day. His storage freed up 30GB. His phone stopped pinging his location to apps he forgot he'd installed. She said: "Apple designs the iPhone to work out of the box for everyone. That means every setting ships at the most permissive, most battery-draining, most storage-hogging default possible. They give you the tools to fix all of it. Then they bury those tools 4 menus deep and never mention them again." Here are the 11 settings she changed: