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This month we've been experimenting with some fun things that are now possible due to the advancements in artificial intelligence (inspired from one of the articles below). All of the images in this issue were AI generated based on our text prompts (there are some crazy ones!) and the summaries were mostly AI generated as well.

If AI is not your thing - don't worry there are still tonnes of interesting rabbit holes for you to jump into and normality will be resumed next month!

📖 5 Great Reads

We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

Artificial intelligence has made major strides in the past 10 years and has some fascinating use cases: it’s being used to write screenplays, compose marketing emails and even develop video games. Given these recent advances, it’s a good time to understand A.I.'s capabilities as well as its risks. (possible paywall)

We all know people who always attract fun - you can too

We all know people who always seem to attract fun and joy wherever they go, and everyone loves being around them. The qualities that make people fun to be around are actually things that can be learned and practiced, so read on to become the life of the party…

Investment strategies for people with “bad luck”

If you have bad luck with investing, that's okay as luckily there are things you can do to improve your odds. Oghenerukevwe Odjugo, provides actionable strategies you can employ to improve your success with investing, starting with changing your mindset.

You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?

Almost all of us go to school for close to 20 years, and yet most of what we learn vanishes. However the ‘feelings’ we get from experiences in school are stored in our long-term memory. Adam Mastroianni argues that learning is not just about acquiring knowledge, it is about the experiences we have and the emotions we feel.

20 Questions to Change Your Life

This series of 20 questions is designed to measure your personal productivity. Ali Abdaal highly recommends working through these to help uncover your personal blind spots in your life.

Bonus: Steve Martin on His Late Career Surge and Contemplating Retirement

Steve Martin is 77 years old with more than 60 years in the comedy business and shows little signs of slowing down or officially retiring. In this interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Steve Martin opens up about his Emmy nominated series, "Only Murders in the Building," and his career.

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🤭 A Bit of Fun

• Shower thought - “If the Queen wore a pair of shoes once and sold them, they would gain value. If a random dude wore a pair of shoes once and sold them, they would lose value. But somewhere in between the Queen and the random dude is an "equilibrium celebrity" who could sell the shoes for the retail price.

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