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The Worst Case: A Sleeping Bag and Oatmeal “One of the many life skills that you want to learn at a fairly young age is the skill of being an ultra-thrifty, minimal kind of little wisp that’s traveling through time . . . in the sense of learning how little you actually need to live, not just in a survival mode, but in a contented mode. . . . That gives you the confidence to take a risk, because you say, ‘What’s the worst that can happen? Well, the worst that can happen is that I’d have a backpack and a sleeping bag, and I’d be eating oatmeal. And I’d be fine.’”
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
My definition of a meeting includes an agenda and/or intended purpose, the appropriate amount of productive attendees, and a responsible party running the meeting to a schedule. If I am attending a meeting, I’d prefer to start on time. If I am running a meeting, I will start that meeting on time. If it’s not clear to me why I am in a meeting, I will ask for clarification on my attendance.
How to Rands
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Chatbots, as well as image generators like Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney, fall under the banner of what’s called generative AI. Generative AI can generate many types of content in seconds: chatbots generate often-realistic answers to human prompts, and image generators produce photorealistic images matching almost any description, say “a cow in a kitchen wearing a pink sweater.” Other apps can generate speech or even music.
AI Snake Oil
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
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