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Write Things Down

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.

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Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed?

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

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An Alien Mind

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,

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The Singularity Is Not What It Seems

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

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The Delusions of John Roberts

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

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¿Por qué se ríen de ‘La odisea’ de Christopher Nolan?

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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Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?

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How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Times investigation A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is

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What if Freud Was Right?

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. To announce that you are embarking on a course of psychoanalytic training today is tantamount, in many quarters, to admitting that you plan to treat your patients using astrology or by parsing the

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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate

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

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AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed

“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

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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

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.

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The end of the age of heroes

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

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The Future, Made in China

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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How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Times Investigation Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered

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How the Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Fell Apart

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

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The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies With Just One Employee

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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Trump Crashes Into Reality

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. President Trump has mused about being the most powerful man in history. He has started wars and remade his nation’s economic and strategic relationships with the world. He has demanded, and largely received,

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