AI can be a heartless machine or a loving companion — a dichotomy you can now experience for yourself thanks to the latest developments in the field of artificial intelligence, spearheaded by xAI and exemplified in Ani and Valentine. The two sexually explicit chatbots can be accessed through the company’s SuperGrok subscription plan. A controversial … Read more
“This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship,” the Buddha told one of his students while talking about the vital role of community in our life. This is what Priya Parker explores in her book “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters,” where she … Read more
. Do you really need a YouTube channel? As a nobody who runs a WordPress blog in the age of podcasts, Medium, Substack, Ghost, Twitch, and TikTok, I believe that I’m uniquely qualified to ask this question and start a conversation. Since the first round of opinions is on me, I would like to offer … Read more
Consider the choices you make every day: what food you order, how often you exercise, the way you organize your work. You might think that they’re the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits. If you can change your habits, you can change your life. This is what Charles Duhigg explores in … Read more