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There are two feet of snow blocking your car from the road. This is a problem. Except it's not a problem if you don't need to leave the house for a few days--the snow will melt on its ow ...

Sarcasm is an easy way to amplify feedback. It has two hidden costs: It reveals low status. People with power don't need to use sarcasm to make a point. If you want to lead with status, using ...

Millions of folks are about to get snowed in. Stay safe. Here's a code for last year's Thriving with AI course on Udemy. It's free for the first 1,000 people. Sorry, we hit Udemy ...

It depends. A freelancer, a brand, a musician-they're here to serve. If people come to the restaurant for your famous marinara sauce, if new clients hire you to architect your signature ...

Rice is one of the most consumed foods in the world, and it gives us insight into our relentless search for status and for affiliation. Once rice is harvested for consumption, it's brown. The ...

I've been playing an online wordgame for a few months, and after each round, it shows me how well I'm doing against the 10,000 other people who are also playing. It didn't take lo ...

When phone cameras got good enough, portrait photographers scolded people who took their own headshots. And when the Mac got pretty good at typesetting, professional designers pointed out that peop ...

An AI like Claude is actually a pretty good fortune cookie. You can ask a simple question and get a simple answer, sometimes a profound one. But this is a waste of the tool's potential. The A ...

Industrialism brought us the idea of optimization. Incremental improvements combined with measurement to gradually improve results. We can optimize for precision. A car made in 2026 is orders of ma ...

A watched pot will boil. As it heats up, there's no way to predict where the cavitation will start and which bubble will arrive first. But with enough time and enough heat, it's going t ...