The Practice of Noticing

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The Conversation

Even in Japan, robots are a long way from being fully-fledged carers – here’s why

Japan’s care robots can help with lifting and monitoring, but real care still depends on human judgement, emotion, and trust.

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You may think that in everyday life, the things you see and hear influence what you feel, but it’s mostly the other way around: What you feel alters your sight and hearing.

Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Angry people are always in search of others they can be angry at. Anger is unattractive. Anger is stupid. A person who is perpetually angry is always mishearing and misreading others.

David Brooks

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The Sunday Times

Is a plug-and-play battery the solution to our energy crisis?

Plug-in home batteries are being legalised in the UK, letting households arbitrage off-peak tariffs and cut bills without solar or installation.

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Spyglass

The Age of the “Super App” — Again and Again and Again

MG Siegler argues Western “super apps” keep recurring, but bloat and complexity make them hard to sustain.

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The Curiosity Shop

What the Return-to-Office Debate Gets Wrong

Brené Brown and Adam Grant argue RTO debates miss the point: define the problem, then design hybrid work around it, not attendance.

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A Bit of Optimism

Why Young People Don't Have ‘The Hunger’ For Work

Eliza Filby argues Gen Z’s “lack of hunger” reflects an economy and life-cycle reshaped since 2008, forcing leaders to rebuild security and belonging.

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When you give a depressed person advice on how they can get better, there’s a good chance all you are doing is telling the person that you just don’t get it.

David Brooks

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On my Om

Memory Is the Machine

Why RAM and bandwidth—not cores—are the limiting factor for local AI, and why Apple’s unified memory is a big edge.

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The Conversation

Headspace: can our brains get full?

Your brain doesn’t run out of space; it filters and forgets when attention and reinforcement are lacking.

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The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true.

Elizabeth Lopatto

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To be reasonable is to have the capacity to recognise that we aren’t the only ones making judgments of value…

Nikhil Krishnan

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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Ralph Ellison

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Anam Cara

John O’Donohue

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The Menopause Brain

Lisa Mosconi