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You're Spreading Yourself Too Thin: What is your Project X?

If you only had 20 big decisions in your lifetime, you'd stop dabbling and concentrate only on what actually compounds.

Likes Are Dead.

The most important KPI of the next era of social media is trust.

“AI First” Is the New Policy

The winners will be the teams who learn AI fast.

Your Life Is Better Because a Whole Lot of Other Things Were Happening at the Same Time

Progress usually isn’t one genius invention. It’s a bunch of different tech improvements stacking together until life suddenly gets way better.

America’s Biggest Air Travel Upgrade in 50 Years

Three executive orders fast-track drones, airspace defense, supersonic jets, and air taxis.

Meta and YouTube didn’t beat TikTok; Washington did.

ByteDance just cut a deal to spin off TikTok. The biggest winners? Meta, YouTube, Snap. They must have exhaled like marathoners crossing the finish line. Why?

Meet 27-Year-old Shayne Coplan: His $9 Billion Deal Explains How Wealth Really Works

How does a broke coder go from an FBI raid to negotiating a $9 billion deal with the head of the New York Stock Exchange?

The side-hustle economy —one paycheck doesn't cut it anymore.

More Americans now need more than one job to stay afloat. That is the story.