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It’s a cocktail not of judgment, but of analysis and perception. This is why the martini is eternally chic.
On Martinis 🍸
Alicia Kennedy
Americans have absorbed the “Protestant work ethic” — the idea that our value as human beings is determined by how hard we work and how much money we make. Elizabeth Anderson explains how this evolved, why it pervades everything, and why it sucks.
A Pro-Worker Work Ethic the Gray Area With Sean Illing
Apple Podcasts
I'm continually impressed with Claude's ability to create its own benchmarking systems and rip through a series of hypotheses about how to achieve some hard-to-define optimal outcome.
I recommend trying this when you're deep into a problem looking for an optimal path: give the agent a laboratory.
Give Your Agent a Laboratory, Pt. II
Writing
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