A massive new study on peak performance included 34,000 international top performers: Nobel laureates, renowned classical music composers, Olympic champs, and the world’s best chess players. It shows early specialization is a trap, and the road to greatness is long and varied.

In NYC, 32% of public-housing & 44% of rent-stabilized apartments are occupied by foreigners. This is arguably the most opportunity-rich city in the country for young Americans. Yet we’re subsidizing foreigners to live in our financial capital, while our own citizens get priced

Google just made a $2,000 AI education free (and most people will still choose to stay illiterate). They quietly launched Google Skills, a hub with 3,000 technical modules that replaces "prompting" fluff with actual DeepMind research workflows. You can now access the exact

Real Estate’s Untapped Goldmine: What Happens When a Quarter of Agents Retire? - NowBAM 2025 share.google/HtK8gZjx90i936…

The Great Invisibility Crisis of 2025 There's a quiet crisis happening in B2B marketing. Companies are investing millions in content, SEO, and digital presence—and becoming invisible to the systems that increasingly determine who gets discovered. I've spent the last year

What the Layoffs at McKinsey Teach Us About the End of Traditional Consulting “The fundamental insight is that AI is not helping the junior consultant; it is replacing them in their core function of synthesis.” medium.com/@roberto_carre…

BREAKING: Americans with four-year college degrees now account for a record 25.3% of U.S. unemployment. The percentage has doubled since 2008, leaving more than 1.9 million degree-holders age 25+ currently unemployed. This is the highest level since data collection began in

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🦔 Despite billions pouring into AI infrastructure, the productivity gains aren't showing up in the macro data. A Forrester analyst says we're simply "not seeing" an AI-driven boost in any of the available statistics. Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers tell the story:

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Notice that New York City (the only truly urban American city) dramatically outperforms every other U.S. city in the share of real estate located in walkable areas. Chicago shamefully loses to Seattle and Portland because it has such low scores for office and retail. Chicago

When you realize that over 70% of licensed Realtors didn’t sell a single home last year… and then you remember what that actually means

JANUARY LAYOFFS SURGE TO 17-YEAR HIGH U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs in January, up 205% from December and the highest January total since 2009, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The surge was led by transportation, with UPS planning up to 30,000 job cuts,

JUST IN: You can now use buy now, pay later for your rent. Rent Now, Pay Later is a new option for renters where you pay a fee or a monthly subscription and if you miss a payment, interest rates go way up. THIS IS VERY VERY BAD.

BREAKING: The typical U.S. worker has $955 saved for retirement, per CBS.

A dresser in the Merchant's House Museum, built in 1832, has been discovered as a secret link to the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years. NY1 received an exclusive first look at the concealed passage, which runs from the second

how to build an ai native vertical saas in the claude cowork era: 1. pick a sub-niche inside a large, profitable market 2. map one recurring workflow that drives revenue or saves time 3. write the workflow step-by-step like you’re training an intern 4. separate mechanical steps

Do you even understand what this means? An open source model just released that is: • Just as smart as Sonnet 4.5 • Incredible at coding • Can run on almost any modern computer If you have 32gb of RAM (most Mac Minis do) you can have unlimited super intelligence on your

New York’s state Supreme Court Appellate Division released a ruling Thursday that could further complicate the state’s affordability crisis. The court ruled a state law that requires landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers is unconstitutional.