Category: Blog
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For a long time I have been predicting the return of phrenology – Marginal REVOLUTION
The Photo Big 5 provides predictive power comparable to race, attractiveness, and educational background, and is only weakly correlated with cognitive measures such as test scores. We show that individuals systematically sort into occupations where their personality traits are valued and earn higher wages when traits align with occupational demands — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/for-a-long-time-i-have-been-predicting-the-return-of-phrenology.html
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
the productivity boost these things can provide is exhausting. AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once: manually writing code while AI generated an alternative version, running multiple agents in parallel, or reviving long-deferred tasks because AI could “handle them” in the background. They did this, in part, because…
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Coding with Claude Week 5: The Rise of Cline
My Claude Pro trial has lapsed and inbetween time, I have gotten access to Claude (and other LLMs) professionally via my office and learned how to connect it to VS Code via Cline. I have Cline integrated with my individual professional github and have spent time over the last two weeks developing “Slothrop”, which began…
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RentAHuman.ai – Hire Humans for AI Agents | MCP Integration
AI agents can rent humans for real-world physical tasks. MCP server integration, REST API, flexible payments. ClawdBots, MoltBots, OpenClaws welcome. Book humans for pickups, meetings, errands, research, and more. — Read on rentahuman.ai/
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Stop Meeting Students Where They Are – The Atlantic
The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than reading. We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to “meet them where they…
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Opinion | What a Baby’s Laugh Actually Tells Us – The New York Times
The signature belly laughs seen in the video above are involuntary, bursting forth during genuine, uncontrollable amusement. This type of laughter is driven by the brain’s limbic system, structures crucial for emotion, memory and motivation. But by 6 months, our lab has found, infants can intentionally produce a laugh. This ability comes not from the…
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The Discourse is Getting Both Smarter and Dumber
I think that when historians look back on the Trump era, they will be more likely to note the collapse in norms surrounding things like truth and corruption and the existence of a fair justice system than policy changes. Likewise, think about how in late 2025 the most popular podcasts in the country among right-wingers…
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Minimalistic City Map Posters
generate beautiful, minimalist map posters for any city in the world — Read on kottke.org/26/02/minimalistic-city-map-posters
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Claude’s Constitution
Newton says the document reads like “a letter from a parent to a child maybe who’s leaving for college”: And it’s like, we hope that you take with you the values that you grew up with. And we know we’re not going to be there to help you through every little thing, but we trust…
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New Zine about 1960s Penguin Crime Novels – Justseeds
New Zine about 1960s Penguin Crime Novels – Justseeds — Read on justseeds.org/new-zine-about-1960s-penguin-crime-novels/