Is Google’s LaMDA Sentient?
Google’s “product” just passed the Turing test and wants to be referred to as an employee, not property. Why doesn’t it matter whether it’s sentient or not?
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Beaumarchais: How A Weird Man Can Help you Find Success
Beaumarchais was a polymath. He was an inventor, playwright, spy, revolutionary, and a libertine. His story can help you find your own path.
Don’t Lose Sight of Your Long-Term Goals
On our deathbed, no one is likely to care about any of the social media content we’ve ever made, even as we’re spending more of our lives making it. So how do we combat this?
Why Crazy Career Changes Aren’t as Crazy as We Think
We seem to believe that the “best” way to live is to leave high school knowing exactly what we want to do with the rest of our lives, and then committing to that for decades. I debunk this now.
Investing in Your Life’s Work [The Ugly Truth]
So you’ve been inspired. You’ve seen examples of people who pursued something extraordinary and lived to thrive. Now what do you do?
How to Avoid Burnout and Stay Motivated
Many of us have a love/hate relationship with money, and society tells us we should only have a love/love/more love/MOST LOVE relationship with money! Yay unfettered capitalism!
What You Want to Say vs. What People Want to Hear
This simple binary is at the heart of more than you know. What you may not realize is that you’ve heard variations on this theme, manifested in three different ways.
Will you be happy in the future?
In this post, I want to talk to you about our inability to predict the future, and why that affects us in our decision-making.
Remote Careers: State of the Onion — Ep. 40
Why It’s the Best (and Worst) Time to Work Remotely Today we’re going to have a state of the union on remote work. Have you ever looked at the word “union” and thought it should be pronounced “onion”? Because I sure have… And now that I’ve lost all credibility in your eyes (as if I …
Can’t find your “calling”?
Whether it’s Billie Eilish getting 5 Grammy awards at the age of 18, or Leonardo DiCaprio being chosen by the acting gods as a mere boy, multipotentialites are bombarded with stories of what I call the “often path”. A straight, unmistakable road to success.