The Most Underrated Productivity Technique – Scott H Young

The aim of productivity should not be to worry obsessively about how much we get done. Instead, it should be to feel, at the end of the day, that our time wouldn’t have been better spent doing anything else.

Ultimately, we need to create a vision for our lives and regularly ask ourselves whether we’re actually living up to it. Tasks, projects and purposes will take as long as they need to reach fruition. Our only job is to ask ourselves what really matters and have the conviction to stick with that.

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

“I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to provide useful functionality. I have built over 150 of these in the past two years, almost all of them written by LLMs. This article presents a collection of useful patterns I’ve discovered along the way.”

SynthID – Google DeepMind

SynthID is our new watermarking tool, designed specifically for AI-generated content. It empowers users to identify AI-generated (or altered) content, helping to foster transparency and trust in generative AI.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Universities scrambled to fight back with AI-detectors like Turnitin—despite high rates of false positives, documented bias against ESL and Black students, and the absurdity of fighting robots with robots. It’s a twisted ouroboros: universities partner with AI companies; students use AI to cheat; schools panic about cheating and then partner with more AI companies to detect the cheating. It’s surveillance capitalism meets institutional malpractice, with students trapped in an arms race they never asked to join.