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  • 01
    Everyone in the room thinks they’re the only one struggling
    The connective ritual behind my closest friendships and the best teams asks the same question: What are you working on that you need help with? During my PhD, I regularly participated in something called Shut Up and Write. The idea was (wait for it) to be quiet and work, but in a room full of people doing the same. Two hours, sometimes three, broken into 25-minute blocks with five-minute breaks and coffee in between. I went to my first one because I was stuck, but also because I was promised freDanny Kenny
  • 02
    3 social skills you should never outsource to AI
    “AI is helping me with my social skills,” one of my therapy clients told me. He experienced social anxiety and had started asking AI for scripts to say whenever he felt nervous. At a recent dinner party, when he felt overwhelmed by all the insightful questions the other guests were asking, he slipped away for a restroom break. He asked AI to create a list of questions that would make him a more interesting conversationalist so he could be well-liked. He returned to the dinner table armed with quAmy Morin
  • 03
    Ask Ethan: Do evaporating black holes ever lose their event horizons?
    Here in our Universe, there are few objects more awe-inspiring or mysterious than black holes. First theorized to exist back in the late 18th century, they represent a region of space where so much mass and energy is confined within such a small volume that, from within it, nothing can escape: not even light itself. Black holes are bounded by an event horizon, and as more and more mass falls into the black hole, the black hole grows, with its event horizon increasing in size as it happens. But aEthan Siegel
  • 04
    Google CTO: A unifying theory of life, intelligence, and technology
    From von Neumann’s blueprint, which predated the discovery of DNA, to viral genes that now help form our memories and placentas, Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that function defines life more than material does, and that AI belongs in the same story. He explains why he thinks AGI is already here, and gives a blueprint for using AI without sacrificing your own mind. This video Google CTO: A unifying theory of life, intelligence, and technology is featured on Big Think .Steph McClain
  • 05
    No one cares about your framework – they care about leadership problems
    This article was the topic of a recent live event, hosted by the author. Watch and listen, here. A few years ago for Christmas, my dad gave me a beautiful antique atlas. It’s oversized and hardbound. This is the kind of book that covers the whole coffee table when it’s open yet still requires a magnifying glass to read the names of towns. My dad gave it to us “because you all travel so much.” While the atlas is lovely and we treasure it…its permanent home is on a bookshelf out of reach of my youCharlotte Sharpe
  • 06
    You know history’s famous quotes — but do you understand them?
    Marie Antoinette was done dirty. No, that’s not a reference to her beheading at the zealous whims of French revolutionaries. Decapitation by guillotine is over in an instant. Slander, on the other hand, lasts for centuries. As dissidents successfully roiled public fervor against the aristocracy in the late-18th century, they launched a libelous campaign against their well-known queen. Antoinette was defamed as an Austrian spy, a libertine, and a spendthrift — in essence, the worst version of a wRoss Pomeroy
  • 07
    The Second Amendment has a hidden origin story
    Malcolm Gladwell argues that almost everything most people believe about the Second Amendment is wrong. Guns weren’t widely owned in 18th-century America. The militias didn’t win the Revolutionary War. And the amendment that guaranteed their survival was written to protect one thing in particular: the armed slave patrols that Southern plantation owners depended on. In conversation with Jonny Thomson, Gladwell traces that history into the present — why originalism gave the right a blank cheque, wMalcolm Gladwell, Jonny Thomson
  • 08
    Quantum fields carry energy. Does that prove that they’re real?
    One of the biggest questions that appears right at the intersection of physics and philosophy is as simple as it is puzzling: what is real? Is reality simply described by the particles that exist — that make us up, that we interact with, and that we can observe and measure — atop the background of spacetime that’s described by general relativity? Is it fundamentally wrong to describe these entities as particles, and must we consider them as some sort of hybrid wave/particle/probability function:Ethan Siegel
  • 09
    Francis Fukuyama on why we’re better than our ancestors
    In 1675, Madame de Sévigné wrote a letter to her daughter about a musician “broken on the wheel.” This meant being strapped to an X-shaped cross, where an executioner would systematically break the victim’s bones, leaving him to die slowly from blood loss or dehydration. And then, within a few lines, she’s talking about her neighbor Madame de Tarente enjoying the woods in enchanting weather. In 1849, Charles Dickens recounted how he witnessed thousands of people gathered in Southwark to watch aJonny Thomson
  • 10
    Optimism isn’t all about perspective — it requires daily practice
    The email arrived after midnight. Mark stared at the single sentence on his screen while the house slept: If you don’t show progress in the next 45 days, we’re pulling funding. His chest tightened. He closed the laptop, then opened it again — like a lifeguard patrolling the same empty shore — hoping the words might rearrange themselves into mercy. Outside, the street was dark and still, the kind of silence that amplifies every thought. The hum of the refrigerator sounded too loud. His phone glowMichelle Gielan