Courtney Dauwalter won a 240 mile ultramarathon by TEN HOURS in 2017 How? By using 4 evidence-based mindset shifts that supercharge endurance I broke down the full details in a new article for @every but here's a TLDR on how Courtney's tactics can make you mentally stronger: 🧵

Wow, from a recent study: "The findings revealed a significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities, mediated by increased cognitive offloading." What does the world look like with a generation of cognitive offloaders?

o1 is getting access to tools and the cost to run it has started to fall = a new wave of AI agents is about to become viable

Gravy Analytics hack shows thousands of apps like Tinder, Candy Crush, etc are leaking location data via in app ads to data brokers who then sell that data onto law enforcement Many VPNs were on the list of compromised apps Is basic online privacy impossible for the avg person?

Australian psychologists find mental health issues go way down at Christmas But then there’s a rebound in searches for “anxiety,” “stress,” and “suicide”—with the biggest spike occurring after New Year’s Day Possibly due to: ⁃Isolation ⁃Unmet goals ⁃Work pressure restarting

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The US economy has doubled over the past 14 years Meanwhile many European economies have been flat 🇺🇸 USA GDP 2007 - 14.47 trillion 2023 - 27.36 trillion 🇬🇧 UK GDP 2007 - 3.09 trillion 2023 - 3.34 trillion Wild difference

The most interesting part about the new study that found taxi drivers + ambulance drivers have the lowest rates of Alzheimer’s is that bus drivers and pilots had mid-high risk levels This implies that the act of navigating unfamiliar paths is a big key to a healthy brain

New study finds that limiting added sugars in the first 2 years of life may have massive long-term health benefits UK’s World War II sugar rationing was associated with: • 30% ⬇️ in obesity risk • 35% ⬇️ in type 2 diabetes risk • 20% ⬇️ in high blood pressure risk

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Hubspot founder Dharmesh Shah arguing that every hour you spend improving your writing skills is an hour that your future self will thank you for…

Underrated prompt engineering technique: Show don’t tell Cornell researchers published a study in July that found giving AI examples of what you want (or don’t want) increases output quality by 19% Recently got one of my prompts to 100% success rate by adding good and bad egs

Source: Runa Korde, Paul B. Paulus, Alternating individual and group idea generation: Finding the elusive synergy, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 70, 2017

@lennysan @MavenHQ 2 - AI product management I will use the insights to help @every build awesome Spirals + share the top ideas from Miqdad with @ActionDigest community 🌀💥 Thanks Lenny!

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Ultimately Don and his team crowned IBM as king of the PC market for a time Yet in return he was exiled to Florida and his team barely captured even a fraction of the value they created