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(DAY 1278) A Difficult Decision
Some professional decisions can be right and still feel terrible personally.
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(DAY 1277) Searching Travel Reels
Short-form travel videos contain useful visual information, but they are still strangely difficult to search in a conversational way.
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(DAY 1276) Gratitude Is Heavy
Gratitude is difficult to carry for a long time because yesterday's extraordinary kindness quietly becomes today's normal.
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(DAY 1275) Commit, Review, or Let Go
For anything worth pursuing, define the rules, choose a target, create a learning loop, review deeply, and let go if the pursuit stops producing growth.
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(DAY 1274) The Intelligence We Don't Measure
Reflecting on practical wisdom that receives little formal recognition, from raising a family to navigating tragedy and building a good life.
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(DAY 1273) Life Is a Poorly Defined Problem
Contrasting well-defined problems like chess and exams with poorly defined problems like building a satisfying life.
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(DAY 1272) Spearman's g
Starting from Spearman's observation that different cognitive abilities tend to correlate, and reflecting on what that suggests about general intelligence.
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(DAY 1271) General Intelligence
Thinking about general intelligence as the broad capacity to reason, plan, solve problems, learn quickly, understand complexity, and figure out what to do.
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(DAY 1270) What Makes a Being Intelligent
A practical definition of intelligence as choosing goals, acting toward them, learning from feedback, adapting, and finding satisfaction in the process.
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(DAY 1269) Biology and AI
Using biology as a lens for AI, and noticing how adaptation, feedback, emergence, and evolution may explain intelligence better than ordinary software thinking.