Tag: Attention
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Working with agents doesn’t feel like flow — Bill de hÓra
After a stint of deep work, I usually feel the tiredness of having held a line of thought together for a long time via concentration. After a stint with agents, the tiredness feels more like the aftermath, again, of sustained play or competition. The accumulation of lots of small judgments, many state updates, repeated course…
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What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?!
Unless an author makes a major stylistic turn later in their career, I can’t imagine any new work being favorably compared against the earlier work that established the style and sounded so fresh. On the other hand, it’s not always the first work that is considered the best. It can still take time to perfect…
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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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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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Blind to the solutions we were never taught to see
Programmers are trained to see everything as a software-shaped problem: if you do a task three times, you should probably automate it with a script. Rename every IMG_*.jpg file from the last week to hawaii2025_*.jpg, they tell their terminal, while the rest of us painfully click and copy-paste. We are blind to the solutions we…
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The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think … | New year | The Guardian
In the end, though, there is a consideration even more fundamental than any of these, which is that it’s not clear what life is really for at all, if it isn’t for doing more of whatever makes you feel most alive. It’s notoriously easy to slip into the unconscious assumption that any such aliveness is…
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Tired of the wellness industrial complex? Six rules to ditch – and what to do instead | Well actually | The Guardian
As well as no phones at the dinner table or in the hour before bed, he tries to spend every Saturday entirely screen-free. He has yet to achieve 52 consecutive weeks, Emanuele admits – but the intent is important. “If we rely on our own willpower, we’re going to fail … You have to create…
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Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection
Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection — Read on www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/