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Why "maxxing" is made for social media and terrible for real life

Let's try to minimize our "maxxing," mkay?
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OpenAI’s first hardware device will be a portable desktop robot
OpenAI’s first-ever hardware device will be a battery powered, “humanlike” AI smart speaker designed to compete in the new Attachment Economy.
Jul 14
Rise of the 'slop zombies'
Corporate America and the wider world of work are suffering from a pandemic of AI-pilled slop zombies infected with brain rot and unearned confidence.
Jul 10
Driving in Europe feels like a dystopian sci-fi novel
When you get behind the wheel in the EU, Big Brother is Always Watching You.
Jul 9
Gen Z’s AI problem isn’t about AI
The generation that distrusts everything and everyone found one place to converse without judgement or consequence.
Jun 29
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Our consumer culture has us looking to corporations to supply us with relationships.
Jun 5 • Mike Elgan
Google betrayed the web
Google was built on a Grand Bargain with content creators: traffic for content. Now it wants content without giving traffic. It’s time for a post-Google…
May 23 • Mike Elgan
We’ve entered a golden age of idea thieves and liars
It's normal now to pass off other people’s ideas as your own. Even Google is doing it.
May 20
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