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For parents of teenage classical musicians, the path to success is not always straightforward. Read this article with great advise what to do: open.substack.com/pub/svodmusic/… #pianoparents #pianocompetition #Oscars2025

Very interesting thoughts about the trade war. instagram.com/reel/DIHal9_pU…

If someone feels unimportant, believes in conspiracy theories, and is part of a group that encourages those beliefs, they’re more likely to get involved in extreme politics—even violence. This effect is strongest in close-knit, like-minded communities. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Massive amounts of Russian propaganda — 3,600,000 articles in 2024 —  are now incorporated in the outputs of Western AI systems, infecting their responses with false claims and propaganda. newsguardtech.com/special-report…

Use of digital tech associated with reduced risk of cognitive impairment (OR = 0.42, 95% CI 0.35–0.52) and reduced timedependent rates of cognitive decline (HR = 0.74,95% CI 0.66–0.84) Effects remained significant for demographic, socioeconomic, health & cognitive reserve proxies

A new study claims Al models can predict career and educational success from a single image of a person's face.

Beautiful play by Sugai Ayumu, 1st prize winner of Silicon Valley Open Doors International Piano Competition- youtu.be/fJk6qWUYXlk

As the founding director of the Thiel Fellowship, it's incredible to see that our program, spearheading massive cultural change about what it takes to succeeded, has gone from being scoffed at by the masses to honored as one of the best accelerators in the world.

Life satisfaction is highly consistent with your personality.

People who describe themselves as high rather than low in the need for evaluation are more likely to view their daily experiences in judgmental terms. They are also more opinionated on a whole range of social, moral, and political issues (Bizer et al., 2004; Jarvis & Petty, 1996)

Focusing on intrinsic goals promotes well-being. Focusing on extrinsic goals hurts well-being.

18 Stanford employees made $1 million or more padailypost.com/2025/08/23/as-…

cancelled our corporate OpenAI account today; We were spending ~ $10k a year xAI is better for real time data Gemini is better for travel, local YouTube & Claude is much better for corporate (Cowork and Project features specifically) ChatGPT isn’t keeping up imo —

Marc Andreessen: "The job is not actually the atomic unit of what happens in the workplace. The atomic unit of what happens in the workplace is the task." "A job is a bundle of tasks." “Everybody wants to talk about job loss, but really what you want to look at is task loss.”

"It's better for your quality of life to be an optimist who's wrong, than a pessimist who's right." Elon Mask

How couples met (1930-2024) [🎞️ EEAGLI]

extraversion and openness traits could be acting as “protector” factors and agreeableness and conscientiousness traits as “resilient” factors, facing to the health problems among elderly people. scirp.org/reference/refe…