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It's tempting to seek out the easy gigs and the straightforward projects. But of course, if they're the easy ones, there's probably quite a few people eager to do them. So your ab ...

Should you have to? I made a mistake. I used a QR code service a year ago, and now that my year's payment is up, they're going to delete the code. It turns out I wasn't buying wha ...

School is a training ground for task-based thinking. "Will this be on the test?" You finish your homework and then you can go out and play. This is one reason educators are flummoxed by ...

First mistake: If you meet a talking dog in the street and it makes a few grammatical errors or speaks with an accent, you don't use a few errors to dismiss the fact that this is an actual ta ...

It's all too easy to be familiar with being underappreciated. Customers, clients, vendors, colleagues-we'd like them to notice and acknowledge our efforts on their behalf. When we ...

Everything that happened yesterday, and the yesterdays before that, is real. It happened. Perhaps it's the hard work you did to earn a degree, or a significant error that cost you and others ...

Sooner or later, we are all superheroes. Superman wears a costume. As we all do. He isn't great at time management, always focused on the urgency at hand instead of investing in long-term pla ...

They can carry us away, amplify our work or slowly change everything around us. These arcs can easily become invisible forces, pushing us to make choices and to ignore their origins or consequences ...

There isn't much of a correlation between how fast you swim and how much energy you put into it. In fact, drowning people burn plenty of calories but they don't go anywhere. When weR ...

[written by claude.] Here's the thing about ChatGPT that nobody wants to admit: It's not intelligent. It's something far more interesting. Back in the 1950s, a Russian linguist na ...