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Collaboration masterclass: How to wrangle disagreements like Bob from Xerox
Excerpted from The Bonfire Moment: Bring Your Team Together to Solve the Hardest Problems Startups Face by Martin Gonzalez and Joshua Yellin. Copyright © 2024 by Martin Gonzalez and Joshua Yellin. Reprinted courtesy of Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Leaders need to invite disagreement, not just expect it. When the invitation to offer their opinion is not
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How to get your ethically sourced pleasure
Pleasure is a dirty word. I mean this in two ways. First are the connotations or associations of the word. If a colleague asked you, “How much pleasure have you had this morning?” you might fire off an email to HR. If you saw the title “Learning to find pleasure,” or “Enjoy more pleasure,” you’d
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The LHC’s best 2025 discovery points the way to new physics
One of the biggest unanswered questions in all of theoretical physics is how the Universe came to have more matter than antimatter in it. In laboratory experiments, we can only create or destroy matter if we also create or destroy an equivalent amount of antimatter. But at some point in the Universe’s past, it must have happened. Although
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Google fellow: AI doesn’t pretend to be intelligent. It is.
Much of the ongoing discourse surrounding AI can largely be divided along two lines of thought. One concerns practical matters: How will large language models (LLMs) affect the job market? How do we stop bad actors from using LLMs to generate misinformation? How do we mitigate risks related to surveillance, cybersecurity, privacy, copyright, and the
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