Category: Blog
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Understand to participate
You can learn what the agent is doing to make sure you can be an active participant in the creative process. […] You need a rich set of concepts in your mind to think creatively and fluently about how to move something forward. If you’re lacking that fluency, your ability to participate in the project…
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The Prisoner as Prescient of Today
https://www.avclub.com/the-prisoner-criterion-channel-patrick-mcgoohan
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Thinking or Feeling
Jackson: (23:25) Do you experience art primarily by thinking or by feeling? Tyler: (23:29) I don’t even know what those words mean. I experience it by looking at it. I don’t think I have very deep emotional responses. I think it’s pleasure and I feel I learn a lot from it. When I go out…
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COMPULSION: The Writers Who Wrote The Most in History · brennan.day
None of them, I think, would tell you they were happy during those hours. But the repetition, the loop, the showing-up, the ritual? All were non-negotiable with who they were. That’s different from, say, hustle. Hustle is instrumental; you grind because of what’s on the other side of it. What I’m describing in these writers…
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The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It
the rules of adjective order that fluent English speakers follow without quite knowing why. …adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a…
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Decision Fatigue: Why You Feel Exhausted Without Having “Done” Anything Physically
None of these studies points to a magic solution, but they do, quite consistently, point in the same direction. The first is to reduce the number of trivial decisions we make without realizing it: the more routines and default settings we have for repetitive tasks, the fewer resources we spend on decisions that add no…
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Learning to Prompt AIs
This is like saying there’s no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/timothy-b-lee/
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Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052 | Bill McGuire | The Guardian
People sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water is scarce and supermarkets are for the wealthy, says climate academic Bill McGuire — Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/26/heatwaves-britain-2052-sleep-hot-houses-water-climate
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Comment préserver la douceur de nos petits garçons ?
En grandissant, les petites filles ont davantage de latitude vis-à-vis du genre que les garçons. Il est désormais admis largement en France, et parfois valorisé, que les filles s’intéressent à « des jeux de garçons », qu’elles aspirent à être mécaniciennes ou astrophysiciennes. Leur force physique est vantée à l’école. La réciproque n’est pas vraie. Il est toujours…