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"Here's the thing: I've either never found the one thing I'm truly passionate about, or I'm just quietly, equally, stupidly passionate about everything."
@DanKennedy_NYC, humorist and longtime host of The Moth storytelling podcast, on why you may not need to find your "one true passion" to live a happy life bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p…
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Streetlights do more than just illuminate the roads. Via nighttime light remote sensing, they reveal information governments would rather suppress on growth, poverty, and war.
For @bigthink, cartography expert Frank Jacobs explains how a Cold War accident gave us an "extraordinarily good lie detector": bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p…
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Isaac Asimov hated the "robot rebellion" story genre so he invented a conceit of Laws of Robotics — AI that by definition *could not* harm humanity — and nonetheless repeatedly ended up AI takeover scenarios just with benevolent AIs.
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For Meta, Muse is a play to get marketing dollars.
Zuckerberg told developers this week that Meta will “profit by taking a small fee from transactions”. Walmart, Best Buy, Sephora and Expedia have signed up.
But is Muse my butler, or is it secretly working for Meta?
That small fee, from merchant to Meta, is a big problem.
The butler’s loyalty can’t be in two places. It will follow the coin...
My commentary, open to all:
exponentialview.co/p/meta-mu…
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Relationship-building coach Rob Riker shares simple ways to connect better with others and be a more enjoyable person. You don't need to be cool: “You need to care about something enough that your enthusiasm becomes contagious” robriker.substack.com/p/4-wa…
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Do you find yourself bookmarking things to read later, but then never revisiting the tab—and feeling guilty as the to-read pile gets higher?
Librarian and information literacy expert Hana Lee Goldin on why we save things instead of reading them, and how it deceives us:
"To us, the tap still feels like a plan: this piece, but later. The platform counting that tap reads it as engagement, one more sign the feed kept us interested, whether or not we ever actually return to the piece"
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the faces of the Fall 2026 Substack design team as I share for the 320,000th time my -459.67° F take that “icons should always have text labels”
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"I’ve since learned that overly online keyboard warriors are the least important people to convince. The most important people are on your local city council or state legislature."
Wisdom from @larsiusprime
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Check out my interview with the wildly amusing Mooch, who has transformed a brief cameo in Trump's 1st term to a sizzling media career. We talked his new book, All the Wrong Moves, and Trump’s rationale for a 2nd term: he didn’t steal enough money the first time. Link below ⬇️⬇️
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New newsletter: WHY WE'RE WRONG ABOUT CHINA AND AI
America's frontier AI policy seems to hinge on China. But when you talk to people at or near the frontier, it's astonishing how little we seem to know about how China thinks about AI.
So, I talked to several experts—@jordanschneider, @kyleichan, @mattsheehan88, @RushDoshi, @ChorzempaMartin, @pstAsiatech and more—and pooled their most interesting comments under 7 big questions, inc:
- What don't the frontier labs understand about China?
- What would actually scare the CCP into taking AI safety as seriously as, say, Anthropic?
- Does China think our AI safety concerns are legitimate, or a conspiracy to keep them down?
- What should we actually do now?
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Tom Brady dropped an uncensored “oh s🤭😮❗” on live TV after Jayden Daniels suffered a nasty elbow injury, and the FCC could fine Brady up to $325K.
@lastnights_game @Substack
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"Men are willing to buy and read something that will propel them to act in the world: dust the cheetos off themselves, do 20 push-ups, and take up the worthwhile pursuit of self-actualization."
George Aldous, writing in his Substack Kill Switch, examines the decline in reading among men, and puts the blame on a publishing industry that is hostile to "both masculinity as a concept and masculine influences" killtheswitch.substack.com/p…
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In our first guest post, @GoBankYourself explains the death "practical obscurity." It used to be more effort than it was worth to piece together a picture of someone's life. Now with AI, its trivially easy.
Flock, financial history, browsing data, everything. It's all going to be connected.
p2p.coincenter.org/p/enginee…
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Really enjoyed this week's @NASCAR Substack Live with @kaitlynvincie over on the NASCAR @Substack.
Kyle Larson is leading The Chase after an exceptional start to the postseason, but this shouldn't be too surprising -- even after a rough summer.
Why I think the @Hendrick5Team looks and feels like a championship-caliber team right now:
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