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Why New Year's resolutions fade by February and what the research says about building habits that last: context-cued automaticity, how long it really takes (Lally et al. 2010 and the 2024...
2024 was the year AI won two Nobel Prizes, learned to reason step by step, and prompted serious books and essays about life in a world where machines can do most of what we do. If our work is no...