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The big 5 predictors of success

Darius Foroux
5 min

Open YouTube, Substack, or X right now, and you will be inundated with emergency sirens disguised as career advice. They put a timeline on your potential. To me, this is pure fear-mongering designed…

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Why Warren Buffett’s superpower is an Achilles heel for AI

Big Think
5 min

The great investor instinctively knew that humans are much smarter than computers in volatile environments. So he bet on common sense.

«Innovation obsolesces yesterday. In business, the data you gathered from last quarter can therefore be used to calculate … last quarter.»

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Can art and creativity change our future?

Big Think

The "Creativity Pioneers" proving that imaginationis a practical tool for social transformation.

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Athletes keep breaking records — and they may never stop

Big Think
7 min

Technology, shifting rules, and human ambition push athletes beyond biology’s perceived limits.

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Why Hybrid Productivity Systems are the Most Effective Systems.

carlpullein.com
7 min

Shared by 669, including New UA RSS, New Daily RSS, The Mega List

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Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney

Big Think
15+ min

Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans. In 2026, that matters more than ever.

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Why organisms are more than machines

Big Think
7 min

Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of AI.

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5 sci-fi books that foreshadowed the future of biology

Big Think
6 min

The “dystopian” biotech imagined in these novels is now changing real lives for the better.

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Done Is Better Than Perfect: Why Shipping Beats Polishing Every Time

LifeHack
5 min

You Know Exactly What You Need to Ship. So Why Haven't You? You have the project. The plan. The vision. It's all mapped out, probably in more detail than

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Phone Addiction vs. Entrepreneurship: What It's Costing Your Business

carachace.com
11+ min

Phone addiction isn't just productivity loss for entrepreneurs—it's nervous system burnout. Learn why chronic phone use is costing your business more than time.

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Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

Brain Pickings
6 min

“It is very important to be in love with life… Life is very fragile and always elusive. As soon as we think we ‘understand,’ there is another mystery. I don’t understand any…

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

Farnam Street

Michael Ovitz co-founded CAA and helped reshape Hollywood, then took the same playbook into tech investing and advising founders.

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Metabolism, not cells or genetics, may have begun life on Earth

Big Think
13+ min

A big open question in 21st century science is how life began here on Earth. The metabolism-first scenario just might be the best one.

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Validating LLM Output?
Prepare to Be ‘Persuasion Bombed’

MIT Sloan Management Review
9 min
Paywall possible

New research shows that large language models increase persuasive behaviors when users question their output.

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How reading books regulates your nervous system

Big Think
3 min

Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.

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It’s never too late to stop hating math

Big Think
6 min

Math anxiety discourages people from pursuing the subject, but the benefits of math literacy extend far beyond numbers and equations.

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Can Self-Compassion Change the Way You See Society?

Greater Good
5 min

A new study explores the connections between mindfulness, empathy, compassion, and social attitudes.

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Scientists use machine learning to control specific brain circuits

PsyPost.org
4 min

A Japanese research team has developed YORU, an AI tool that detects animal social behaviors as distinct visual objects. This open-source software allows biologists to trigger real-time neural…

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Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

Brain Pickings
5 min

One of the most important things I have learned about living is that, in any life of purpose and creative vitality, you must be as religious and disciplined about your sleep as about your work. And…

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Neuroscientists identify a unique feature in the brain's wiring that predicts sudden epiphanies

PsyPost.org
5 min

Researchers have identified a distinct structural signature for insight. The findings indicate that reduced connectivity in the brain's language networks may actually help facilitate sudden creative…

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