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Continue reading →: The Plus: Part 3, Keep DivergingThe nine-dot puzzle has been around for decades. Connect all nine with four straight lines…without lifting your pen. In the control group, nobody solves it. Then researchers temporarily suppress the rule-following part of the brain with electrical stimulation. Forty percent crack it. The puzzle didn’t change. The rules didn’t change.…
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Continue reading →: The Plus: Part 2, The Atrophy ProblemIn April, the Artemis II splashed down after a ten day trip around the moon. Three of the four astronauts couldn’t walk off the deck. Ten days. From able-bodied to not. Your brain works the same way. This is Part 2 of The Plus. We look at the atrophy problem—what…
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Continue reading →: The Plus: Part 1, Working With the RobotsIn late 2024, AI-generated articles passed human-written ones. Twelve months later, AI took the lead online. Then the volume plateaued. Not because the robots stopped writing. Because nobody was reading. This is Part 1 of The Plus, a five-part series on working with the robots. We start with the Super…
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Continue reading →: Is This Thing On?In 1951, a comedian named Jack Roy walked away from the stage. Twelve years later he came back as someone else. I think about him a lot lately A piece about writing into the void, what the kids are watching, and finding the difference between asking the room if it’s…
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Continue reading →: Winning and The WaveAt the 2003 U.S. Open, on center court, Pete Sampras emerged wearing a dark suit, open collar, surrounded by legends. He is retiring, and before he says a word, he’s overcome. He can’t get through it. Then Agassi appears on the screen—prerecorded, because he’s still playing. “If I’d beaten Pete…
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Continue reading →: Anchors Aweigh!You’ve heard a guy at a barbecue call his wife “the old ball and chain.” It’s a joke. It’s also a lie. The real ball and chain travels with you everywhere you go. And most people spend their whole lives hacking at the wrong ones. This week’s post is about…
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Continue reading →: I Know, Right!?!We all say it. “I know, right?!?” It rolls off the tongue so easily that we don’t even notice we’re doing it. But that little reflex might be costing you more than you think. It closes doors, shuts down conversations, and worst of all, it fools you into thinking that…
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Continue reading →: Let’s Be HonestWhy are we quicker to tell someone they have spinach in their teeth than to tell them they look great? A.J. Jacobs called it radical positive honesty—if you think something good and keep it quiet, you’re lying by omission. Sylvester Stallone’s entire career exists because one Harvard professor told him…
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