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On sociality
If you observe ants, you will notice how they often bump into each other for a second or more to detect whether they are from the same group and exchange signals. For example,…
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Caring and beyond
In teenage years, those who care least acquire the most admiration from peers. That admiration—and the seeming lack of care itself—are rather unstable and inauthentic most of the…
Fitness
Nutrition Considerations & Experiments
Every day, you eat something, and it becomes part of you in some way. Over years, you take on a certain bodily and psychological organization and shape that are in part affected…
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3 metamorphoses
In a passage from “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, Nietzsche outlines three metamorphoses of the spirit. The spirit is the essence of the human. In the first stage, the spirit is a…
Business
AI Agents in Notion, n8n, Make - Considerations and Differences
Building custom AI agents that perform certain tasks on demand or on a schedule is possible across many platforms. Some of the most prominent ones include Notion, n8n, and Make.…
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Swaying mind
The stressed elephant sways side to side. Similarly, the stressed human sways thought to thought, immersed in thoughts. Yet thoughts are not reality itself, and we can practice…
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Of all the possible things you could do, how do you decide what to do?
How you do anything matters more than what you do. When you pay attention to the how, you can excel at whatever you do. Take hospitality, for example, as illustrated by Will…
Life
AI Skills in Notion
Say, you’ve trained boxing for many years and you stumble upon a street fight one night. You immediately invoke your boxing skills to protect your friend. Similarly, Notion AI has…
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The missing advice on habits
A useful tool in establishing something new is to make it easy to do that behavior (i.e., to use affordances). You place your training clothes on the chair the night before in…
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Constant imaginary conversations
We go about our days with a machinery of imaginary conversations or monologues from relevant people in our lives, whether in the past or present, dead or alive. It’s easy to take…
Business
Notion AI Computer Access
While working on a PowerPoint presentation for an upcoming investor meeting, John—the CEO of a fast-growing U.K. scale-up—let a Notion Custom Agent use all the notes in the…
Life
Information overload and action gaps
A way you clean up a trash can that’s been tipped over by the monkeys at night, snacking on the leftovers, is to soften and begin picking up the first piece of garbage, and the…
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