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mayukh

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www.k2think.ai 10mo ago

K2 Think

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www.wsj.com 2y ago

Cleaning Up ChatGPT Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers

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www.nytimes.com 9y ago

Watching: The Times new movie and tv recommendation site

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www.forbes.com 10y ago

Apple Ordered to Halt Sales of iPhone 6 in China After Patent Rule

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thenextweb.com 10y ago

India just turned off mobile internet for 63M citizens amid protests

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

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www.bloomberg.com 10y ago

Citing porn, India blocks websites

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www.interfluidity.com 11y ago

Why is finance so complex? (2011)

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www.telegraph.co.uk 11y ago

Hacker 'made plane climb' after taking control through in-flight system

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www.wsj.com 11y ago

Prodigy Has Lots of Promise, but AOL May Be the Prodigy [1992]

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

How We Learned to Kill

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flowingdata.com 12y ago

Starbucks vs Dunkin Donuts map

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www.advisorone.com 13y ago

Reinhart and Rogoff Fight Back

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www.zdnetasia.com 14y ago

Yahoo unit loses data for over 5000 comapnies

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news.cnet.com 14y ago

Is Apple fragmenting the iPhone?

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intelligentsoccer.com 14y ago

Capitalism in European soccer compared to American sports

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thenextweb.com 14y ago

Ebook pricing case against apple

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www.cloudave.com 15y ago

Can we ever have too many startups?

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mashable.com 15y ago

Google Earnings Takeaways

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www.icorrect.com 15y ago

Setting the record straight on icorrect?

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

Population of young whites falling faster than expected

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

Gadgets you should get rid of (or not)

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www.pcmag.com 15y ago

Google set to launch music service

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techcrunch.com 15y ago

Friends don't let friends get into finance

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www.gapminder.org 15y ago

History of wealth and health of nations

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

Hard line chefs say no to customers

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thenextweb.com 15y ago

Do you have the hustle to be an entrepreneur?

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Google Flow Music 3 months ago

Wow, such hate for anything AI. I haven't used it, I don't care to. But I have teenaged kids and I've seen them hang and tinker with tech and ai. They seem to love it.

Sloppy humans create sloppy output. The AI is just an amplifier, it has no motive

Guilty Displeasures 5 months ago

Came here to say the same. At first I couldn't even relate, but then another phase of my life came flashing back to me. All the angst around the pretense, wondering why I like somethings in a particular space but then not others that I was supposed to like...

And then slowly over time the realization that most people were in the same boat and it's just virtue signaling

Now I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like

Im with you... to some extent. I come from parts of the world where there is real material poverty and so this is tangible food on the table and a better life in some sense...at least for her family if not for her.

The question though is why that material poverty exists in so many parts of the world that were once pretty advanced civilizations.... Colonialism def had a part to play there. So the irony isn't lost that western powers exploited and extracted from civilizations and cultures that were different from theirs..all in the name of progress of course..and now those parts of the world are dependent on the breadcrumbs thrown their way by different western powers.

Not exhaustive by any means but here some ideas:

  > To make friends, be one -- figure out what this means 
  > Be vulnerable -- the quickest way to connection I have found is to be ok with sharing your vulnerability first  
  > Be ok with rejection -- the danger of being vulnerable is getting rejected, be ok with that. Plenty of fish in the sea
  > Love yourself -- learn to give yourself grace
  > Practice gratitude
  > Serve/Volunteer/Teach -- you have unique valuable skills, figure out what they are and help others
  > Join clubs that excite you -- if none exist create one. (derek sivers: how to start a movement, consider being the second person)
  > Find your tribe online -- if none exist create one (see above)
Focus on physical and mental well being, life is long and one never knows the turns, the ups and downs that will come about -- learn to be resilient and don't lose your sense of humor

I use AI a ton for writing emails and other corporate stuff, I have no problems there, it structures and presents them well enough and quickly that it saves me a ton of time.

Where I am conflicted is creative writing -- its something I have been interested in but never pursued...and now I am able to pursue it with AI's help. There is a degree of embarrassment when confiding to folks, that yes a piece was AI assisted... see here by what I mean: https://humancurious.substack.com/p/the-architect-and-the-cr...

Claude 4 1 year ago

Beautifully written. Interestingly, humans also don't know definitively where their own thoughts arise from

Obesity is a side effect of the industrial food production system in advanced economies that is slowly spreading all over the globe.

How about alcohol and smoking ? Is that the same as obesity then

Sit. 3 years ago

This is brilliant. For me it was about 8 counts per minute (and I could adjust on the fly). This is a good one to add to the arsenal of breathing techniques.

Re: the app. My personal experience has been after while if you need an app to do nothing …

Mark Hurd Has Died 7 years ago

This seems a short-sighted and judgmental view on someone I assume you do not know well personally. What if he loved what he did ? What if he did manage to spend quality time with his loved ones (We all wish we had more)? What if he hated vacations and itched to get back to the action at work? To each his own.

Mark Hurd Has Died 7 years ago

Thank you for sharing your perspective. Wishing you the best. You can consider having added some valuable food for thought in one person's thinking about this disease and how we choose to spend our limited time on this planet.