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☆ A Harvard Medical School professor with ADHD shares how he retrained his brain for deep work and reached peak productivity
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Dr. Jeffery Karp | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Using two tactics to retrain his brain, Karp gained confidence and pursued a career in academia. The MIT and Harvard professor shares the benefits of working in a flow state in his new book. Though I still struggle every day in various ways, I'm grateful to be able to say that these LIT tools enabled me to meet and far exceed those dismal early expectations. AdvertisementYou're never too old to charge your brain this way, and most definitely no one is ever too young. In fact, LIT tools can be lifesavers for kids, as they were for me.

Persons: Jeffery Karp, Karp, —, Eric Kandel, you've, we're, I've, they've, Jeff Karp, William Morrow, Jeffrey Michael Karp Organizations: MIT, Harvard, Service, Harvard Medical School, National Academy of Inventors, Royal Society of Chemistry, American Institute for Medical, Biological Engineering's College of Fellows, Biomedical Engineering Society, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Karp Lab, Center, Medical Locations: Canada, playbook, LIT

☆ 9 things people get wrong about sociopaths, according to a sociopath
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The lack of available care for sociopaths inspired Gagne to pursue a PhD in psychology, where she specialized in the relationship between sociopathy and anxiety. Sociopaths do feel emotions, just not "social" onesSociopaths are often depicted in media as devoid of feelings entirely. As an adult researching sociopathy and going to therapy, she learned that sociopaths — and even psychopaths — can feel basic emotions. Related storiesWhile research on the diagnoses is still limited, Gagne says experts believe that, unlike psychopaths, sociopaths can feel anxiety and also show signs of learning right from wrong. They don't understand why some things are "wrong"Throughout the book, Gagne explains how she finds it difficult to identify "bad" behavior.

Persons: Patric Gagne, —, Gagne, She's, Hannibal Lecter, Patrick Bateman, sociopaths, I'd, checklists, Nobody, Dr, Ben Karpman, David, I'm Organizations: Service, Lambs

☆ Apple's first AI move may be outsourcing the mess to Google
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Why handle the mess of AI by itself when it can pass it on to someone else? AdvertisementApple does, of course, want an AI strategy, despite all the mess the technology brings with it. Fresh AI features could help Apple boost falling iPhone sales in China. Fresh generative AI features could give iPhones the extra edge they need to boost sales again. In addition, Apple will have several new AI features based on its own, homegrown LLM models we expect to be unveiled at WWDC this June.

Persons: —, Tim Cook, they've, Apple, Perfectionism, Steve Jobs, Cook, OpenAI's GPT, Dan Ives Organizations: Service, Google, Bloomberg, Apple, Business, Publishing, Getty, Worldwide Locations: China, China —

Without ever clicking a mouse or touching a screen, Mark selected this command on his computer simply using signals from his brain. “I figured I had two choices: I could wallow in self-pity, or I could pick myself up by the bootstraps and do what I could to help,” Mark said. Synchron’s brain implant, the one Mark has, is called a Stentrode and consists of a stent with electrode sensors that can detect electrical brain activity. That external transmitter sits right above the internal transmitter and carries the signal from Mark’s brain to the computer almost instantaneously. Earlier this month, Musk also said Neuralink’s first human trial participant can control a computer mouse with their brain.

Persons: Sanjay Gupta’s, Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN —, Mark, Lou Gehrig’s, ” Mark, Elon Musk, ”, “, Sanjay Gupta, Synchron, Tom Oxley, hardwired, he’s, Mark didn’t, “ We’d, Maria Nardozzi, ” Oxley, CNN Mark, Musk’s Neuralink, Oxley, António Guterres, ” Elon Musk, Gonzalo Fuentes, Neuralink, Musk, Hope Organizations: CNN, BCI, US Food and Drug Administration, Netflix, US Securities and Exchange Commission, United Nations, Reuters, SpaceX Locations: Neuralink, UNESCO’s, Pennsylvania

☆ United grounded 5 planes because it couldn't turn off their 'No Smoking' signs, breaking a strange FAA rule
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

United Airlines "briefly" grounded its Airbus A321neos due to a peculiar rule. It needed an exemption from requirements flight crew be able to turn off "No Smoking" signs. United received an exemption for Boeing jets in 2020, but ordered the A321neos a year later. The FAA told BI it was "working to quickly resolve a non-safety issue that United Airlines discovered with some of its Airbus A321neo aircraft." Around four hours after those statements, a United spokesperson said the FAA gave it permission to keep operating the jets while it evaluates the exemption request.

Persons: —, United, PJ9i1QRzn4, nQU7I4e1WK — Jason Rabinowitz Organizations: Airlines, Airbus, Boeing, Service, United Airlines, Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, United, FAA, Airbus A321neo

☆ Married people tend to be far happier than those who are not, according to new data
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

A happier life after getting married may not just be in fairy tales. Adults who are married report being far happier than those in any other relationship status, according to a Gallup Poll published Friday. Over the survey period, married people consistently reported their happiness levels higher than their unmarried counterparts, ranging from 12% to 24% higher depending on the year, according to the data. “There’s also famously, for men anyway, a premium associated with being married in terms of earning higher income,” Rothwell said. “I don’t think we’re ever going to get to a point in social science where we can say whether or not and with any precision whether marriage causes happiness,” Rothwell said.

Persons: ”, Jonathan Rothwell, Bradford Wilcox, Wilcox, Aristotle, Ian Kerner, I’ve, ” Kerner, Monica O’Neal, Rothwell, “ There’s, ” Rothwell, “, O’Neal Organizations: CNN, Gallup, Education, University of Virginia, “ Locations: United States, Boston

NEW YORK (AP) — Ever-present on the lips of Taylor Swift and the uniforms of both Super Bowl teams. The color red has gone boom as loud as TNT. The phenom that is Taylor Swift at boyfriend Travis Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs games was a red-hued wonder of a lead-up to Super Bowl LVIII. You can wear red accessories to add color to a more neutral look or throw on a red lip or red nail polish. THE RED VS. RED SUPER BOWLThe 49ers have some skin in the red fashion game, too, in running back Christian McCaffrey's fiancee, Olivia Culpo, and in Kristin Juszczyk, fullback Justin Juszczyk's wife.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Trav, Travis Kelce's, We've, we've, Pat McGrath, ”, Laurie Pressman, Stuart Semple, Erin Jaeger, it’s, Christian McCaffrey's, Olivia Culpo, Kristin Juszczyk, Justin Juszczyk's, Kristin, Jaeger, I’m, Sabato De Sarno, Gucci Rosso, ” Jaeger, Bianca Betancourt, Semple, Anish Kapoor, It's, “, Geothe, Michel Pastoureau's Organizations: Super Bowl, TNT, Travis Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs, Media, Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Pat McGrath Labs, FOOTBALL AS, North America, 49ers, Swift, Vogue Locations: Taylor, British, North, Paris, Milan, China, India

☆ What did Israel know about Hamas’ October 7 attack?
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Rob Picheta | Simone Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7 left Israel flat-footed, sparking a backlash that is still rippling through the country. But a report from the New York Times claimed Israel obtained Hamas’ plan for the attack more than a year in advance. Here’s what we know about Israel and the US’ advance knowledge of the attack. What did Israel reportedly know about the attack? Then, on October 6, the day before the attack, US officials circulated reporting from Israel indicating unusual activity by Hamas — indications that are now clear: an attack was imminent.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, “, ” Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Biden Organizations: CNN, New York Times, Haaretz, Times, …, Palestinian, Hamas, CIA, Intelligence Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ Five tips for dating in the digital age
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Andrea Kane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Each episode will focus on one of those states — the distracted brain, the frightened brain, the nourished brain, etc. She zeroed in on four brain systems: dopamine, serotonin, estrogen and testosterone. It contains the question: Have you ever met somebody whom you initially did not find attractive and eventually fell in love with? “So when you go on these introducing sites and you’ve just met somebody, you have very little information about them. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing.”We hope these five tips help you make the most of dating apps.

Persons: Sanjay Gupta, —, Helen Fisher, Fisher, ”, ” Fisher, Match.com, “, it’s, ‘, ’, …, you’ve, Ah, ’ ”, Don’t, ” “ They’ve Organizations: CNN, Kinsey Institute Locations: America

☆ Hamas operatives used phone lines installed in tunnels under Gaza to plan Israel attack over 2 years, sources familiar with intelligence say
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Pamela Brown Zachary Cohen | Pamela Brown | Zachary Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The phone lines in the tunnels allowed the operatives to communicate with one another in secret and meant they could not be tracked by Israeli intelligence officials, the sources told CNN. They avoided using computers or cell phones during the two-year period to evade detection by Israeli or US intelligence, the sources said. CNN has not seen the specific intelligence but spoke to sources familiar with it. CNN previously reported that a series of strategic warnings from US and Israeli intelligence agencies did not lead officials from either country to anticipate the events of October 7. Israel was aware that Palestinian militants had been using hardwired communication systems prior to the October attack.

Persons: Yocheved, ” Organizations: CNN — Intelligence, CNN, National Intelligence, Israel Defense Forces, IDF Locations: United States, Israel, Gaza, Washington, Iran, Jenin, West Bank

☆ I give all my employees August off on full pay. Here's how it works and why it's boosted productivity.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Jo Hunter was already offering her employees remote working and a four-day week. Hunter repeated the move this year and says taking a month off is a revelation – and good for business. During the pandemic, we moved to working a four-day workweek and remote working to support our employees. The company had grown from four to seven employees over the last few years and demand for our creativity workshops increased. Right now, CEOs of some of the world's biggest companies are pointing to productivity data to call their employees back to offices.

Persons: Jo Hunter, Hunter, –, I'm, Jo, We've, hardwired, Jo Hunter I'm Organizations: Service, Artists, Staff Locations: Wall, Silicon, Finland, France, Spain

☆ Neuroscientist: 3 tips for finding songs that give your brain a physiological and emotional boost
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Though it might seem counterintuitive, slow tempo music is more likely to give you the chills than uptempo music. "There's often a long anticipation phase and a buildup of tension in the music," Viskontas says of ballads. "And the chills happen when there's a release of tension like a beat trop or some kind of modulation or change." Though it might seem counterintuitive, slow tempo music is more likely to give you the chills than uptempo music. "And the chills happen when there's a release of tension like a beat trop or some kind of modulation or change."

Persons: Pharrell isn't, Miles Davis, Viskontas, Whitney Houston's, Adele, Warren Buffett Organizations: Indre, CNBC

☆ Tackling money shame: Personal finance advice from top TED Talks
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Chris Taylor | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

We combed through them for the most helpful advice to get our money lives under control. “And so many of you are left believing that you’re crazy, or stupid, or just bad with money. It wants to consume, whereas the future self wants the present self to save ...“So what can we do about this? Maybe the reason money doesn’t make us happy is that we’re always spending on the wrong things – in particular, always spending it on ourselves. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right.”Editing by Lauren Young and Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Simon Sinek’s “, TAMMY LALLY, “, ” DANIEL GOLDSTEIN, TEDSALON, Derek Parfit, ” ESTELLE GIBSON, TEDxDayton, ” ELISE PAYZAN, ‘, couldn’t, ” MICHAEL NORTON, we’re, you’re, Lauren Young, Stephen Coates Organizations: TED, Thomson Locations: TEDXORLANDO, TEDSALON NY, TEDXCAMBRIDGE

☆ Yale and Oxford-trained neuroscientist: These 3 questions can help you get better at embracing change
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"Change is scary," Shankar said in a recent TED Talk. And when we experience a change that we wouldn't have chosen for ourselves, it's easy to feel that our lives are contracting, that we're more limited than before." If you struggle with rigidity when faced with uncertain circumstances, ask yourself these three questions, Shankar suggested:How might this change improve what you're capable of? Focusing on the opportunities you might gain — rather than what you could lose — can help you better adapt to unexpected challenges. But adapting to change can be a crucial life and professional skill — and practicing self-reflection can help you become more open to uncertainty, said Shankar.

Persons: Maya Shankar, Shankar, Carla Marie Manly, Manly, Warren Buffett Organizations: Yale University, University of Oxford

☆ Harvard psychologist: If you use any of these 9 phrases every day, 'you're more emotionally resilient than most'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Dr. Cortney Warren | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

If you use any of these phrases every day, you are more emotionally resilient than most:1. Similar phrase: "As much as I hate this, I can survive it." Similar phrase: "There's always a gift, even in the darkest experiences — I just need to figure out what it is. Similar phrase: "I'm feeling a strong emotion, so I'm going to take a moment before I respond or make any big decisions." Similar phrase: "I have to see reality for what it is, even if it's not what I want, so I can move forward."

Persons: I've, I'm, isn't, it's Organizations: Harvard

Darya Komarova | Moment | Getty Images'The dots need to be connected for consumers'Exposure to our older selves is only part of the process of making decisions for retirement, experts say. While the TikTok filter has recently made it popular to look at our future selves, this type of application has been around since the early 2000s, said Joseph Coughlin, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab. Once people see an image of their older selves, they tend to feel differently about their future decisions. Successful, lasting behavioral changes typically come with incentives to work toward, such as saving money or exercising, Coughlin said. Pairing the videos with prompts to save more money or invest more toward retirement may be effective, according to UCLA's Hershfield.

Persons: Darya, Joseph Coughlin, Coughlin, UCLA's Hershfield, Hershfield, Victor Ricciardi, Ricciardi, Carolyn McClanahan, Drazen Zigic Organizations: Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab, Ursinus College, Behavioral Finance, Planning Partners, CNBC FA, Istock, Getty Locations: Jacksonville , Florida

☆ My Love Affair With Air-Conditioning
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Aatish Taseer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It took me a moment to see what he found so funny. I had grown up with the deprivations of Socialist India in the 1980s. I was hardwired to fetishize air-conditioning. It was not an adjunct to life, sewn seamlessly into our daily routines, as it is here in the U.S., where 82.7 million homes have central AC. It was, as the philosopher Immanuel Kant would say, the “thing-in-itself,” and to sit “in” AC was something of a national pastime.

Persons: “, Immanuel Kant Locations: Mumbai, Socialist India, U.S, ”

☆ An AI detector mislabeled nearly every essay written by a non-native English speaker as being written by a bot
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Researchers found popular GPT-detectors flagged essays by non-native English speakers as AI-written. Systems that detect AI-generated writing are flagging essays written by non-native English speakers as bot-generated, researchers from Stanford University said. In the study published Monday, the researchers ran more than 100 essays written by non-native English speakers through seven popular GPT detectors. The researchers also fed the detectors essays written by US eighth graders who speak English natively. More than half of the essays written by non-native English speakers were marked as AI-generated by the detection systems, the Stanford researchers found.

Persons: chatbots, James Zou, Zou, OpenAI, Sam Altman, ChatGPT, Altman Organizations: Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, The New York Times

☆ A former producer of hit TV show Entourage is launching an altruistic social network and says he doesn't want 'shitty users'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Whether it's misinformation on Facebook, privacy concerns at TikTok, or the perpetual cloud of controversy hovering over Elon Musk's Twitter, social media has an image problem. "Because of the hot mess that is legacy social media, I believe there's a real opportunity for disruption," Weiss said. That's what led him to found Roar Social, a social media startup based on the idea that "humans are hardwired for altruism." So I want the right users and to get the right users, you need to be a little patient." "Nothing is stopping McDonald's from selling filet mignon," he said, "they could do it well, they could do it cheaply, but no one's really gonna gonna go to McDonald's to buy the filet mignon.

Persons: Robert Weiss, Weiss, Melinda Gates, There's, it's, filet mignon, mignon, I'm, Bluesky, Jack Dorsey, he'll Organizations: Elon Musk's Twitter, Roar, MTV, Melinda Gates Foundation, Elon, Twitter Locations: TikTok

☆ People probably have to be on Ozempic forever. But no one is ready for the bill.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

But she knows — from experience — that probably won't be possible if she has to stop taking the drug once her manufacturer-issued coupons expire. But the injections don't work once people stop taking them. Li Ran/Xinhua via Getty ImagesMany health insurers and employers have long declined to pay for weight-loss drugs. He has resumed taking weight-loss medication but said he hoped to go down to a lower dose. Want to tell us about your experience with health insurance and weight-loss drugs?

Persons: Tara Rothenhoefer, Rothenhoefer, Eli Lilly's, Insider's Gabby Landsverk, —, Wegovy, Rothenhoefer Novo, we're, Dr, Martin Lange, Novo, Eli Lilly, Li Ran, Sean Duffy, Omada, Duffy, hungrier, Nisha Patel, it's, " Lange, Bill, Gabby Landsverk, Shelby Livingston, Hilary Brueck Organizations: Rothenhoefer Novo Nordisk, Novo Nordisk, Getty, National Library of Medicine Locations: San Francisco, Novo, Xinhua, slivingston

Investors anticipate the U.S. central bank will follow through with a quarter-percentage-point rate hike at the end of its latest two-day policy meeting. The policy statement is due to be released at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT), with Fed Chair Jerome Powell scheduled to speak to reporters half an hour later. But the new statement, and Powell's elaboration on it, will have to reconcile a set of risks that have grown more into conflict. Between that consensus and other problems that have intensified in the meantime, the Fed is likely to at least open the door to the prospect that this hike will be the last of the current tightening cycle, absent a future inflation surprise. Doing otherwise might hint that those projections had changed, a hawkish tilt towards more rate hikes that the Fed won't want to close off but also won't want to guarantee.

☆ A major inflation report and fallout from Silicon Valley Bank hang over markets in week ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Patti Domm | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

February's consumer inflation report should be a big driver for markets in the week ahead, as investors watch for continued fallout from the shutdown of SVB Financial Group's Silicon Valley Bank. The consumer price index report on Tuesday is the last major inflation data ahead of the Federal Reserve's March 21 and 22 meeting. Silicon Valley Bank's troubles overshadowed nearly everything else in markets Thursday and Friday, as investors sought safety in the bond market and sold bank stocks. Those odds had been as high as 70% before the Silicon Valley Bank news began to hit the market. Now inflation data is being watched carefully since a very hot number could mean the Fed will become more aggressive.

☆ Legendary VC Doug Leone touts AI, praises Elon Musk, and reveals how he tests people over dinner in a new interview. Here are the 10 best quotes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Doug Leone compared AI to mobile devices and the internet in terms of technological impact. Great companies often emerge in tough times, and easy money can be bad for founders, he said. Leone is a legendary venture capitalist who led Sequoia Capital for over 25 years. (Leone said he looks for founders, partners, and employees who are seen by others as insufferable, belligerent, and bad listeners.) "What you shouldn't do and say: 'There's money in venture, I want a cushy life, I want to go into venture.'

☆ 6 ways shopping sites trick you into buying more
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Danni Santana | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Online retailers use psychological tricks and tools to get consumers to make purchases. But we're shopping online now more than ever before, and these subtle nudges are starting to feel more widespread. Buy online, pick up in storeBuy online, pick up instore was all the rage during the pandemic. So much of how we shop and make purchase decisions is subconscious, he said, and while you may rationally know that scarcity is a marketing tactic, your subconscious doesn't. Tips for avoiding retailers' marketing tricksJust being aware of these marketing tactics isn't enough to protect you from them, Goldberg said.

☆ Awful Stock Market Analysts, Wall Street Economists Are Costing Investors Money
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Neil Dutta | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

One type of data point to be wary of involves vehicles for confirmation, which use old data to confirm what an analyst already believes. The index is also revamped after every recession — given new weights and components so the new index perfectly signals the recession that just happened. Let's assume the ISM signals a turning point in the business cycle when it runs below 50 for three consecutive months. In a bull market, when rising stocks lift all boats, these analysts are still making money while arguing the downside just "hasn't happened yet." No single data point is a substitute for good judgment, which is the best leading indicator of all.

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