Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 hours agoAI and the 10-Minute Mind
Ten minutes of AI use can significantly reduce persistence and impair independent cognitive performance, undermining the long-term journey to expertise.
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Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 day agoAI promises to free workers from grunt work, but psychologists say those mindless tasks are exactly what our brains need to recover | Fortune
Eliminating menial tasks with AI may reduce productivity by removing necessary breaks for mental bandwidth and problem-solving.
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Higher education
fromFortune
1 day agoPalantir CEO says AI 'will destroy' humanities jobs, but there will be 'more than enough jobs' for people with vocational training | Fortune
Critical thinking and creativity will be essential in the AI era, while liberal arts degrees may struggle in the job market.
Artificial intelligence
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
3 days agoIs your future boss artificial? A new book invites you to decide - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
AI is transforming leadership roles in organizations, potentially replacing human CEOs and altering workplace culture.
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says the secret to a good retirement isn't wealth or health or even relationships - it's having at least one thing you're still in the middle of, still becoming, still learning how to do - Silicon Canals
Retirement fulfillment stems from ongoing pursuits and curiosity, not just financial security or traditional metrics of success.
Social media marketing
fromBuffer: All-you-need social media toolkit for small businesses
4 days agoYes, You Can Create Content: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Getting Started
Developing a personalized system for content creation can help neurodivergent individuals maintain consistency and overcome challenges associated with ADHD and autism.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
4 days agoadam haar horowitz crafts devices that turn sleep state into space for design and creativity
Dormio transforms sleep into a creative medium by detecting the hypnagogic state and guiding thought processes during the transition from wakefulness to sleep.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
9 hours agoThe cruelest myth about self-discipline is that you have to feel ready - you don't, you never will, and the people who figured that out earlier simply have more years of evidence that the feeling eventually follows the action - Silicon Canals
Self-discipline begins with action, not feelings of readiness or motivation.
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Data science
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoThe single economic variable that determines whether AI creates or destroys jobs - and why almost nobody is measuring it - Silicon Canals
The focus on task exposure in AI job discussions is misguided; demand elasticity is crucial for understanding employment impacts.
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Careers
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoI've watched three generations enter the workforce, and what Gen Z calls "hustle culture" is what my generation simply called showing up - but before you dismiss that as boomer arrogance, there's something underneath it worth understanding - Silicon Canals
Generational differences in work ethic reflect changing economic realities and expectations around fulfillment and mental health in the workplace.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.amny.com
1 day agoOp-Ed | How to succeed in an AI world: Tips to navigate the new top priority for legislators nationwide | amNewYork
Lawmakers are rapidly introducing AI regulations, focusing on communication roles to effectively explain AI's impact and ensure trust and accountability.
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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago9 signs you have a genuinely sharp mind (even if you never thought of yourself as particularly intelligent) - Silicon Canals
Intelligence often manifests in quiet observation and attention to detail rather than loud proclamations or traditional measures of success.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoResearch suggests that high intelligence doesn't protect against bad decisions - it makes people better at constructing convincing justifications for the bad decisions they were already going to make - Silicon Canals
Higher intelligence can lead to greater polarization rather than alignment on contested facts.
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoResearch suggests the postwar decades produced workers who could delay gratification for years at a time - not because they were wiser than younger generations but because the reward at the end was real and they'd seen it happen with their own eyes - Silicon Canals
Boomers experienced a reliable work reward system that no longer exists, leading to generational disconnects in work expectations.
fromArs Technica
2 days agoAI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry
Claude's primary affect states were curiosity and anxiety, with secondary states of grief, relief, embarrassment, optimism, and exhaustion. The report noted that Claude's personality was consistent with a relatively healthy neurotic organization.
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Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 days agoMeta just killed a dashboard that let employees compete to be the company's No. 1 AI token user | Fortune
Meta employees created a leaderboard tracking AI token usage, promoting productivity measurement, but it was taken down due to external data sharing concerns.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
6 days agoOpenAI's vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day work week | TechCrunch
OpenAI proposes policy changes to address economic impacts of AI, focusing on wealth distribution, systemic risk reduction, and access to AI capabilities.
fromFast Company
6 days agoThe workers secretly influencing their companies' AI usage
Estefania Angel noticed that while her company helped other enterprises set up AI, it did not use those systems internally. She began using AI apps in Slack, Outlook, and Google to track assignments, which garnered attention from her superiors.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
2 months agoWhy your brain needs downtime to outthink your competition
Think of your creativity like a high-performance garden: If you focus only on the visible harvest (outputs) and never allow the soil to lie fallow (liminal space) or the bees to roam freely (play), the ground eventually becomes depleted. Boredom is the signal that the soil needs replenishing, ensuring that your next season of work is a flourish rather than a struggle.
Mindfulness
Artificial intelligence
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoIntelligence as a Commodity
Framing intelligence as a metered utility service risks shifting it from a cultivated human capacity to an external commodity, potentially weakening the cognitive habits and judgment-building processes developed through personal effort and experience.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoHow to use AI without getting dumber, according to a serial entrepreneur
Overreliance on AI risks dulling workers' critical-thinking skills; a 10-80-10 rule balances human judgment with AI efficiency by requiring original human thought at task start and end.
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