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I asked ChatGPT to plan my weekends for a month — the surprise wasn’t the free time, it was how little I’d been choosing for myself
The screen showed a five-weekend plan.
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The lost art of being unreachable (and how to get a little of it back)
I am not a psychologist or a doctor, and this should not be taken as advice.
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Thought of the day by Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: “What does not benefit the hive does not benefit the bee.”
Picture the colleague who quietly keeps the best leads for himself.
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I asked ChatGPT to describe my personality and forbade it from flattering me — it didn’t hold back
"You come across as highly self-directed, analytical, private, and restless.
Mind
Too many options breed hesitation, regret, and less satisfaction in the end
I have a decision sitting open that I should have closed days ago.
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We assume AI is coming for everyone’s job, but a 2025 Stanford study tracking payroll data found the damage is concentrated by age: employment for 22-to-25-year-olds in the most AI-exposed roles fell roughly 13%, while older workers in the very same jobs were barely touched
In November 2025, three Stanford economists pulled monthly payroll records from ADP and found something the broad "AI is coming for everyone" story doesn't quite capture.
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Google studied 180 of its teams to find what made the best ones click, expecting talent or structure but found the factor that beat everything was psychological safety: safety to admit a mistake
Most people assume a good team is mostly a casting problem.
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We tend to think our actions follow from our beliefs — but cognitive dissonance means we often rewrite our beliefs to justify what we’ve already done, not the reverse
In 1959, Stanford students sat through a deliberately tedious task, then were paid to tell the next participant it had been fun.
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Rethinking remote work: surveys show people will give up 5 to 8% of their pay to work from home, but a 2026 study links remote work to more isolation, anxiety and depression — suggesting they may be underweighting the cost
Here is something I have been turning over for a while.
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When DeskTime studied how its users actually worked, the most productive tenth were not the ones who never stopped — rest seemed to be key to output
I have a bad habit I am not proud of.
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I asked ChatGPT why reaching every goal still leaves me flat. The answer wasn’t the one I was expecting.
I typed it out plainly: "Based on everything you know about me, why does reaching my goals still leave me feeling flat?
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As AI eats into paid creative work, people are taking up the same skills — drawing, writing, crafts — on their own time, for no money, just to feel human
I'm not a psychologist, an economist, or a labor researcher.