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As artificial intelligence makes it easier to get the answers you want to any question, retaining knowledge is becoming a rare skill. The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve (introduced by psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885) proves that we lose most of what we learn over time if we don’t reinforce it…
There’s a new word for those who are apprehensive or outright uninterested in career advancement. Included in a new book of 100 Future Words, “ladderdodging” is defined as “declining or choosing not to seek out a promotion or high-level role in order to avoid the added pressure, risk, and…
Microsoft is pushing back on reports that the tech giant is considering major cuts to its cloud division amid increased spending on artificial intelligence.
The year is 1600. The sun has just set and you’re tucked up on your canvas sack on the floor. But shut-eye in medieval times had a twist: instead of the eight-hours-a-night routine we’re familiar with, going to bed in the olden days meant getting up around midnight for a chunk of time known as “the…
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic reportedly offered a salary of 145,000 euros (roughly equal to $190,000) for a personal assistant in its London office.
As much as there are immutable truths in investing and money matters — costs matter and getting started earlier is best, for example — many of the precepts we hold true as investors depend on the data. When the data change, so should our thinking.
Family estrangement isn’t just a private family problem anymore. It’s become a widely discussed social phenomenon. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, reports and polls across the United States have pointed to a rise in adults cutting ties with relatives.
The announcement of a new AI model or feature fills me with a mixture of anticipation and dread. I’m excited to see what “new thing” I might be able to do, but I also know that some of my existing processes and systems might break as a result.
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“I don’t know if I came across super harsh or not. At some point, I lost sense of how I was showing up.” That was my client after having a hard conversation with one of her leaders about getting the resources she needed in her role.
Jobs are always evolving, particularly in the age of artificial intelligence. But if the work you’re doing bears little resemblance to the role you were promised, and especially if no one has explained or discussed the change with you, you might be experiencing a career “bait-and-switch.” When…
In late August, the estate of Paul G. Allen sold the Seattle Seahawks NFL franchise to an ownership group led by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla for $9.6 billion.
I feel like such a failure: Nothing ever goes according to how I plan, and no matter how hard I try, I can never get everything done that I want to do. Sound familiar? If so, you’re not alone.
Unless you happen to live with a software engineer or avid gamer, you may not be aware of the current shortage in computer RAM—which your resident computer expert may be calling RAMageddon or the RAMpocalypse. The RAM shortage is a familiar story if you’ve ever dealt with capitalism.
“Meat proxy” is the worst insult you can hurl at me right now. The term, popularized in August 2026 by the software engineer Niklas Gruhn, refers to a person who takes what artificial intelligence generates and passes it on to another person without reading or even thinking about the output first.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has an optimistic perspective about the potential impact of AI on the American workforce. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Bezos predicted that productivity gains from AI will allow more families to survive on one income and workers to support themselves by…
I was writing a book about the perils of recklessly chasing new things when I had an idea: I should interview Tom Hanks. I had read about how Hanks was an avid typewriter collector, and the typewriter seemed like the perfect foil to today’s futuristic gizmos. It’s heavy and impractical.
Jeff Bezos wrote his first letter to Amazon shareholders in 1997. Amazon had just gone public and Bezos told investors he would be making decisions for the long term and that short-term Wall Street reactions would not influence his direction and decisions for the company.
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