NYTimes: “Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese martial art with complex, flowing poses — known as forms — that integrate movement, breath and mindfulness. Typically, Tai Chi walking (or Tai Chi gait) is the first thing that new students learn. “It’s the most fundamental movement for Tai Chi practice,” said Feng Yang, an associate professor of biomechanics, kinesiology and health at Georgia State University, who practices and studies Tai Chi. When you walk normally, you push off from one step to the next, using momentum to propel you forward. Tai Chi walking takes away the pushing, slowing everything down until you have total control of each movement. “Some people call Tai Chi gait a catlike walk,” Dr. Yang said. “You need to walk very slowly and silently.””
McKinsey’s questions for growth leaders: “Are our growth aspirations and commitments bold enough to allow us to grow faster and more profitably than the market? Do our resource allocations match our growth priorities? How many independent growth engines do we actually have today—and how many rely entirely on the core? Which adjacencies genuinely build on our strengths, and which are distractions dressed up as growth? Where can AI and agentic AI help us build up our competitive advantages? Which strategically critical capabilities should we build organically, and which would benefit from being developed through thoughtful partnerships or acquisitions?”
WSJ: “AI-written code may replace minor applications, but it isn’t dependable enough to write anything essential on its own. I talk to a lot of customers, and none has yet suggested they might vibe-code a critical system. In the end, AI-generated code may do more to lower costs for software companies than it does to lower prices for their consumers. The software industry will survive its second free-code scare. As Safra Catz of Oracle said in 2012, “If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet.””
NYTimes: “In the future that Elon Musk envisions, humans won’t just live on Mars. They will also never have to work again. Money will be irrelevant. And everything they could ever want will be immediately accessible. This is what Mr. Musk calls “sustainable abundance,” a post-scarcity society where humans have created technologies so ubiquitous and so powerful that they have eliminated the need for labor.”
