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“Many more people regret taking too long to make a decision than making a decision too quickly. […] people regret the time they have lost deciding so much more than the occasional decision they made too hastily.” —Nell McShane Wulfhart text.npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-…

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“Start every piece of work with a mindset of ‘there must be a way AI can help me do this quicker/better, I’m determined to find it’.” —@DarraghCurran (CTO of Intercom, on Fin)

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“Audiobooks, screen readers, text-to-voice applications – anything can now be turned into robotic but perfectly intelligible audio within seconds. Admittedly, the experience of ‘reading’ in this way is different. […] But it’s still reading, of a kind.” —Hugh Linehan

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“You can have AI [write] for you […] In preindustrial times most people's jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. […] It will be the same with writing. There will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.” —Paul Graham

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“[Collecting] articles […] generates a huge backlog to slog through – so that even if you do get around to reading or watching, you’re no longer responding from […] excitement […] but from a duller sense of obligation […].” —Oliver Burkeman ckarchive.com/b/r8u8hoh3qpe9…

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Here’s a ChatGPT prompt that’s been helping me a lot. After I finish writing something, I run this prompt: “Rewrite this at a third-grade reading level.” Why? • About 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. read below this level. Writing this way makes sure more people can understand.