Robert Waldinger on happiness: ““The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.” More: “That strong marriages and family relationships make people happier — yes, that’s intuitive, Lyubomirsky acknowledges. What she found more surprising was just how effective even having smaller points of connection throughout the day could be for happiness — and how achievable that is, if people could only overcome their own hesitation. “If someone were to ask me what’s the one thing you could do tomorrow to be happier, that’s my answer: having a conversation with someone — or a deeper conversation than you normally do,” she says.”
WSJ: “Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said all American companies will eventually need or become artificial-intelligence factories—or entities that produce both goods and AI—and will create skilled U.S. jobs in the process. “Just as we make physical cars today, or anything physical in the future, there’ll be a digital version of it,” Huang [said]…“So you need an AI factory to create the AI model that runs in the car.” An AI factory—which can also be described as a sort of one-stop shop of chips, software, design and networking infrastructure designed for AI—is a concept that Nvidia has promoted at past events as a facility that takes in data and churns out intelligence.”
FT: “In the early 2000s, a start-up called Yelp came up with a novel and friendly feature for the emergent world wide web. Ordinary users could post reviews of restaurants that everyone could read. But there was a problem: very few people were interested in writing things on the internet. Yelp’s engineers needed to give them a reason to. The story of how they incentivised this user-generated content is the jumping off point for Like, an upbeat take on internet history by two veterans of business and technology. Yelp reckoned people might be compelled to post reviews if they received compliments from others. Ultimately, alongside similar experiments at other tech start-ups, this led to the ubiquitous expression of instantaneous recognition that is the like button, which, Bob Goodson and Martin Reeves write, is now clicked some 160bn times a day.”
WSJ: “Apps and online platforms can give us a written record of our video meetings, phone calls or just about any voice recording. AI can even read the transcripts for us, summarizing the key nuggets and action items, so we don’t have to wade through all the ums, ahs and digressions. The promise is that we can have meetings where nothing gets lost; meetings where we can give the conversation our full focus instead of worrying about taking notes; and where people with hearing challenges, attention differences or a noisy work environment can still follow and participate in the conversation. But a full accounting of every conversation could have an unexpected downside: When people in a meeting know they are being recorded, they don’t talk the way they usually do.”
