The true, the good, the beautiful, and the useful are all checks on each other. They need to be in harmony for anything worthwhile.
SOCIETY
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Balancing Bold Vision with Full Life in Tech
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Full life. Bold vision. No either/or. Curious if anyone else is walking this tightrope too?
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Redefining Success: Balance Over Burnout in Building Dreams
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But what if that’s a broken narrative? What if the real flex isn’t burning out for the dream, but building it in a way that makes room for breath, for love, for being human? I don’t have the answer. But I’m choosing to believe both are possible.
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The Hidden Cost of Building Startups: Life Beyond Scale
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Can I be vulnerable for a minute? Why does building a startup often feel like a choice against life, instead of a path into it? Like if you want to scale something meaningful, you have to shrink everything else …relationships, rest, joy, your health.
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Ideological Brainwashing: A Non-Partisan Technological and Social Concern
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Ideological brainwashing isn't a partisan issue.
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Bathhouses offer digital privacy through phone-free relaxation spaces
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One thing people cite about all the bathhouses popping up in NYC is that they feel like they can relax without their phones (less about trust, more about general time away from screens) – might be a good thing for privacy that phones aren’t really waterproof 🙂
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AI Devices Integration: Social Acceptance and Cultural Impact
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I think these devices will come online, but I’m equally interested in the rebuttal of society. Do we let these devices into social clubs (hey, they already block phones)? Or into exercise classes (again, some already block phones)? Do friends only want to hang out if their
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Permanent Data Recording Changes Behavior Society Ethics
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Outside of the conversation referenced above, we also say things at work or at the grocery store or with friends or at the park, that we assume will be forgotten. If instead, NONE of it is forgotten, even the smallest of statements, we’re going to see behavior change, both good
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AI Digital Replicas for Grief: Ethical and Societal Implications
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“Imagine this: In the final months of her life, your mother, while in palliative care, paid an AI company to create a digital replica of herself. The pitch was simple — this AI avatar would ease your grief, allowing her to "live on" for you and your children.”
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AI Replaces Research Teams
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AI just killed the research department. You can now use ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, or any other LLM to replace a full research team. Here’s the exact mega prompt I use to make any LLM a world-class researcher for free: