For millennia, jocks ran everything. The nerds finally take over. And what do they do? Develop AI that wipes out their own coding/math/analysis moats. Creating a social premium on interpersonal skills. The irony.

This is why RAM is so expensive.

The state of the Internet in a nutshell: For 2.5 years, whenever I published a video on YouTube, I'd come up with a bespoke title / thumbnail that accurately described what the conversation was about. Then, during the summer, my view count fell. Nothing worked until I found a formula: "How to Write ________ Well." Always the same text. Throw an adverb in the middle, then share a quote from the interview in the thumbnail. People are 0.5% - 1% more likely to click on that title format, so the channel has exploded in growth. This title format is worse for my viewers and soul-deadening for me, but it's leading to so many more views that I'd be crazy not to follow it — and people are significantly more likely to click on videos with the formulaic title. This isn't just a story about YouTube. So much of the Internet works like this now.

The New Yorker's art department never misses

Bern has a quirky summer tradition: instead of driving home, some locals jump into the Aare River after work, pack their clothes in waterproof bags, and float with the current all the way home — a refreshingly unique commute.

Roger Federer making Andy Roddick consider retirement just moments after this shot 😂 Greatest of all time?

And the Atlantic wins best headline of the year

This is largely being ignored but it's easily one of the biggest China news of the year. What China is doing with Hainan - a huge island (50 times the size of Singapore!) - is pretty extraordinary: they're basically making it into a completely different jurisdiction from the rest of the country, and an extremely attractive entry gate for the Chinese market. You can now import most products in the world (74% of all goods) entirely duty free into Hainan. And, if you transform the product and add 30% value locally, you can then send it to the rest of mainland China completely tariff-free. So for instance: import Australian beef into Hainan tax free. Slice it and package it for hotpot in Hainan: it can enter all mainland supermarkets duty-free. They also have insanely low corporate tax rates: 15%, lower than Hong Kong (16.5%) and Singapore (17%) or the rest of the mainland (25%). That's not all, Hainan now has different rules from the rest of China in dozens of areas: HEALTH: Basically the rule is that if a medicine or medical device is approved by regulatory agencies anywhere in the world, it can be used in Hainan - even if banned on the mainland. Which undoubtedly makes it THE place in the world with the widest range of medical treatments available. NO FIREWALL: Companies registered in Hainan can apply for unrestricted global internet access OPEN EDUCATION: Foreign universities can open campuses without a Chinese partner VISA-FREE: 86 countries get visa-free entry, probably one of the most open places in the world CAPITAL: Special accounts let money flow freely to and from overseas - normal mainland forex restrictions don't apply So they're running a pretty extraordinary "radical openness" experiment there. They're basically building a "greatest hits" of global free zones: Singapore's tax regime, Switzerland's medical access, Dubai's visa policy - all in one giant tropical island attached to the 1.4 billion people Chinese consumer market.

sugar daddy: im gonna spoil you salt daddy: im gonna preserve you

91.4% of worries experienced by people with anxiety never come true.

Hiking in your 40s is a great way to meet new people. Today I met two paramedics, three nurses, a cardiologist and nearly met Jesus.

Just stumbled on this incredible handrail

A Palindrome is a word that reads the same forward and backwards. E.g Madam, Level, Radar. An Emordnilap is a word that forms a different valid word when spelled backward. E.g, Stressed (Desserts) Evil(Live) Palindrome spelt backwards is… There you have it 🤭

don’t forget to drink water and get some sunlight because you’re basically a house plant with more complicated emotions

"Passion" comes from the Latin “passio” which means "suffering" and "endurance." So people think that following your passion means doing something you love, when it really means finding something that you are willing to suffer for.

Maximum Carnage. This project is a non-commercial fan film and technical demonstration. Its purpose is to push these models to their limits and explore what’s possible with new tools in visual storytelling.

Asked by the WSJ whether he spent $500 million renovating the 5th Avenue Tiffany flagship, Bernard Arnault replied: “You cannot dream when you talk numbers. When you create desire, profits are a consequence.” You need to be creating desire.