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AI has taken over the Internet – June 2026
“We spent thirty years building a web to capture human attention, and just crossed the point where most of the visitors can’t be sold anything.” Is it a bad thing?… to move from the model of ‘attention is value.’ The Visitor is now AI. They have no attention to sell to. What is the value …
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Let’s Get Real about AI
“Using AI to summarize 16 newsletters you never read isn’t productivity. Running an agent to manage an overscheduled kid’s calendar isn’t a solution — it’s automation of a problem you created. The worst thing we can do is get really efficient at something that shouldn’t be done at all.” Thanks to: Rohan at A Learning …
More than 11
Sitting for 11 hours/day increases your risk of death by 48%. Bryan Johnson – Blueprint
History does NOT need to repeat itself!
TODAY IN HISTORY | APRIL 13 1993: The B.C. government announces it will allow limited logging of the last major old-growth rainforest on Vancouver Island. At least half of Clayoquot Sound was opened to logging. This could be the biggest mistake we’ve ever allowed our government to make. Let’s not allow our past mistakes to …
Upgrade
“The day we stop working to upgrade ourselves is the day we start to become obsolete.” Arnold Schwarzenegger
Settling
Settling Sometimes it pays to accept and celebrate what we get. And sometimes, we only get something because we settled for it. It helps to be able to discern the difference between the two. Thanks Seth
10 Sleep Rules to Live (amazingly) By
1. final food 4 hr before bed 2. screens off 60 min before bed 3. avoid blue light 2hr before bed, use red/amber 4. book in hand 10 min before sleep 5. go to bed same time every night 6. light in eyes when waking (sun or 10k lux device) 7. walk for 10 min …
What we love about Winter?
“Necessity may be the mother of invention, but interdependence is the mother of affection, and the cold its midwife.” Eric Weiner h/t to rohanrajiv dot com
Now these are great ideas!!!
FUTURE CANADA 18 Big Ideas to Supercharge Canada’s Economy By Claire Porter Robbins Canada is, by many metrics, a great country. But the recent trade war has underscored that it could benefit from some bold thinking to help propel it forward. Canada is at a crossroads. We have an increasingly complex relationship with our southern …