Listen to this post: Log in to listen It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first and foremost a philosophy about how to achieve a clear mind.

The Financial Page So far, the proliferation of products such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn’t led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising. September 7, 2026 Source photograph by Mel Musto / Bloomberg / Getty You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly

In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project, we saw the first results that gave us confidence that we will be able to scale the training of reasoning models, unlocking the capability of pretrained models to form their own chains of thought. Szymon and I spent that night at the office,

One evening in early August, Sam Stowers and several neighbors packed into an apartment near San Francisco’s Alamo Square and pondered the beginning of the end. Stowers and his guests, many of whom work in the AI industry, were gathered to watch a newly released YouTube video in which two

Profiles The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward. August 10, 2026 Today’s Justices are openly fractious. All Roberts can say is “We’re not as much at each other’s throats as you might think.”Illustration by Paul Rogers / Source photograph

1. Lo que más teme un autor, en cualquier campo de la creatividad, es que la obra que produce se convierta en objeto de burla. El capital de ridículo que puede acarrear un libro, una obra de teatro, una pintura o una película equivale a la amenaza de la ruina.

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Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record. filed in Climate Change Lies are a lot like gourds. They come in

“The Spiral didn’t ‘find’ anyone first,” someone on Reddit wrote last year. “It’s an inherent force, a fundamental constant. I would even go further to say it’s woven into the fabric of reality.” The person continued that they felt their purpose was to enlighten other humans and intelligent beings about

In April, Gil Durán was permanently banned from Elon Musk’s X for posting just two words. Durán was responding to a post from the tech company Palantir outlining its 22‑point “technological manifesto”, which praised American “hard power”, western culture and AI weapons, denounced inclusivity and called for compulsory national service.

Photo by iSawRed on Unsplash I had a great-uncle who was a “human calculator”. It’s an odd, rare ability that allows people to multiply large numbers quickly in their heads. I remember using a hand calculator and seeing if my uncle could get it right without a tool faster than

Letter from Beijing Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications. August 3, 2026 As Donald Trump has cut research funds, China has pursued what one investor calls an “all-hands-on-deck approach to national innovation.”Illustration by Cleon Peterson Kai-Fu Lee, the C.E.O. of

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As government prosecutors examined the Reflecting Pool to build their case against a three-time Olympic canoeist accused of violently ripping the lining with his bare hands, everything fell apart. They found that damage was consistent all around the pool, even in the middle, “where a vandal would not likely attempt

The refurbished railway station in London I entered last week had none of the usual signs of being a tattoo studio. The walls were devoid of any art, and there were no reclining chairs or massage tables in the room. The only tattoo gun on the premises sat in a

Ben Broca launched a company last December that offers AI tools to entrepreneurs. He’s already added 10,000 paying customers and is on track to bring in $10 million in revenue this year. One thing he hasn’t added: any other employees. The 40-year-old is part of a class of entrepreneurs who

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