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2022-05-22 07:35:00 Issue #312 | Toby Ord on Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

In issue 269 and issue 270, we featured a comprehensive overview of artificial intelligence. The idea was to start introducing you to topics of particular relevance for the future of humanity, thus helping you decide how best to use your creative potential for maximum positive impact on the world.

Today, we continue on this path with an article by Toby Ord, a moral philosopher at Oxford University and a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute. Published by Edge and based on Ord’s book, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Ord’s article goes beyond artificial intelligence and assesses the risks posed by technological progress in general.

As Carl Sagan put it: “Humanity has become powerful more quickly than it has become wise.” An ominous concern indeed. Read on to learn more!

We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure That We Don't

Edge • 31-minute read Open / Comment

2022-05-21 22:35:18 “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” – Winston Churchill

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2022-05-21 07:35:09 Issue #311 | Advice on Big Career Changes From People Who’ve Been Through Them

According to recent polls, most people seem to be miserable in their jobs. For example, only one-third of American workers surveyed by Gallup report being “engaged” at their work.

As a result, many people fantasize about leaving it all behind to become travel bloggers, life coaches, or surf instructors in Bali. Should you take the plunge?

What’s needed, Elaine Meyer argues in today’s nugget, published by Ambition & Balance, is honest and realistic advice by those who have actually done it.

Read on to learn more!

Burned Out and Fantasizing About a Big Life Reset? Start Here

Ambition & Balance • 14-minute read Open / Comment

2022-05-20 22:35:31 “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.” – William Blake

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2022-05-20 07:35:19 Issue #310 | A Contrarian’s Guide to Combining Analytics and Intuition

Golf had long been a sport devoid of analytic data. But then, in 2004, the PGA Tour decided to start tracking all 1.5 million golf shots every season.

This opened up the way for contrarians to challenge conventional wisdom and approach the game of golf in boldly innovative ways.

For example, there’s a famous saying in golf: “Drive for show, putt for dough.” But when Mark Broadie, a professor at Columbia Business School and a statistician, crunched the numbers, he found that long shots are, in fact, the most important factor in achieving a good score.

In today’s nugget, David Perell recounts how Bryson DeChambeau, a professional golfer who has won eight PGA Tour titles, exploited these analytic insights to change the way he practiced. At the same time, he cautions that, during actual performance, trusting your intuition remains paramount.

Read on to learn more!

Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively

David Perell • 7-minute read Open / Comment

2022-05-19 22:35:26 “Forever is composed of nows.” – Emily Dickinson

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2022-05-19 07:35:00 Issue #309 | Boost Your Productivity With “Attention Management”

“According to one study,” Maura Thomas, a widely published productivity expert, writes in today’s nugget, “we switch our attention every 3 minutes, 5 seconds.”

Interestingly, many of these interruptions are self-inflicted. For example, people pause whatever they are working on for no apparent reason and start surfing the web.

Needless to say, such distractions greatly impair your productivity. Thomas’ solution? “Attention management.”

To help you get started, she suggests a simple exercise of setting a timer and staying with your work, no matter what, for 15 minutes.

Read on to learn more!

Unleash Your Genius with Attention Management

Maura Thomas • 4-minute read Open / Comment

2022-05-18 22:35:33 “To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.” – Dan Brown

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