Betterment

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Me.bot serves as your personal AI assistant, seamlessly integrating with your mind and the world around you. It is an extension of your brain, capable of managing your schedule, organizing your thoughts, sparking creativity, or preserving your memories.

A picky customer is oppositional. Whatever you offer, they want something (slightly) different. A particular customer is easy to delight. They tell you what they want, and that’s what they wa…

Over the course of last year I saw several mentions on social media and other online posts about Obsidian, the personal knowledge management application, not being able to lock posts. I had an idea about this at the time and finally got around to picking it off my to do list. In this post I’m going to outline something that I believe is at least a workable partial solution for this.

Done wisely, naps can be a valuable way to boost your focus and energy. A sleep researcher explains how to get it right.

The plot of 2001: A Space Odyssey is pretty simple. You could write out a summary in three paragraphs. That’s not what made it one of the most revered movies of all time, and also one of the …

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“Severance” is currently one of the hottest shows on television. It centers on Lumon Industries where people volunteer for a job on the “severed floor”

Simply say it. The first minute of a speech, the first paragraph of a novel or the tuning of the orchestra before they begin… The performance improves if we skip that part. Sometimes, our thr…

Cutting Growing Grinding Pruning Irrigating Sanding Cultivating Grafting Pressuring Polishing Shifting Feeding Bending Welding Celebrating Melting Burning It works better when we choose with intent…

It’s easy to be distracted by the wave that’s crashing on the shore. On the other hand, the tide is inexorable. It’s the long-term trend, the one that is quietly happening, over t…

Want to hear just how irrational you are? (How irrational we ALL are?) It’s a cold, nasty world, and nature plays little tricks on us to keep us alive. We

Why loneliness is akin to smoking, democracy depends on bowling leagues, and how to make new friends as an adult.

"Taskmasking" or whatever you want to call it. I got you some strategies.

It’s not unusual to encounter conflicting weather reports. One site says it’s going to rain, the other insists it won’t. On the other hand, you don’t need a weatherman to kn…

If you’ve ever caught a ball, you’re a physicist. You might not be trained in it, but your intuitive sense of where the ball is going to land requires having a theory about gravity. And…

We are shokunin.

The ramblings, thoughts, and channeling of Kin Lane.

It hadn’t happened in such a long time that I hesitated to respond. As I was walking through town, a driver pulled up, rolled down his window and said, “is this the way to Irvington?&#8…

Perhaps you’ve encountered a sink with two taps, not one. One for hot, one for cold, without a chance to mix them before you scald or chill yourself. It seems absurd that the folks who figure…

There are two major cities in business.  The first is called “Care More.” It’s where you get ahead by caring more than the other guy.  The second is

When Congress Surrenders to the Executive

My Conversation with Andrea Hiott

The more common, easier to execute sort: Instructions to remind people who already know what to do, what to do. The more essential and harder to create kind: Instructions for people who don’t…

No one knows the name of the maternity nurse who helped with the delivery of Marie Curie or Esperanza Spaulding. You might grow up to be a genius, but the team that helped your mom give birth don&#…

Tanks teach us a lot. During WWII, Germany and the US had two radically different approaches to tank warfare.  Germany built tanks like works of art – a

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