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Personal development, Thinking and Learning

Can fasting help you live longer? Here’s what the science says.

It’s a popular practice, and research shows it has real health benefits. A new diet that tricks your body into thinking it’s fasting may have similar benefits.

National Geographic•Fran Smith

The art of asking the right questions

The art of asking questions isn’t dead; it has merely grown dormant. Here are some tips for revitalizing the art of the question.

Big Think•Kevin Dickinson

What Does ‘OK’ Actually Stand For?

Despite OK’s ubiquity, many people don’t know the words behind this two-letter agreement.

HuffPost•Caroline Bologna

Creativity training: How to develop creative skills in employees

By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.

Big Think•Michael Wiseman

Indie Hacking and bootstrapping

Why Non-Linear Career Paths Are The Future

As we face an ever-changing job market, non-linear career paths are becoming the new normal. Here are some reasons why.

Forbes•Caroline Castrillon

I made $1 million in revenue last year selling project-management templates. Here’s how I built up this new income stream in just 2 years.

Thomas Frank’s templates for note-taking software Notion, which he sells through Gumroad, generated more than $1 million in revenue in 2022.

Insider•Lola Christina Alao

Founders sharing their startup fails in spreadsheets

Ever seen a successful founder and assume they just got lucky?Maybe some luck has been involved

Pete Codes - Bootstrapped Founder•Pete Codes

Founder Intuition vs. Team Expertise vs. Customer Expertise

Founders have intuition about their company and products that are hard to describe, but extremely valuable. This post talks about how to harness that and when it ceases to become an effective tool.

Casey Accidental•Casey Winters

AI

Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering, also known as In-Context Prompting, refers to methods for how to communicate with LLM to steer its behavior for desired outcomes without updating the model weights. It is an empirical science and the effect of prompt engineering methods can vary a lot among models, thus requiring…

Lil'Log•Lilian Weng

What Will Transformers Transform? – Rodney Brooks

•March 25, 2023 at 6:27 pm

GitHub - sigoden/aichat: Using ChatGPT/GPT-3.5/GPT-4 in the terminal.

Using ChatGPT/GPT-3.5/GPT-4 in the terminal. Contribute to sigoden/aichat development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub•sigoden

10 productive ways to use ChatGPT at work (your boss won’t mind) | DeskTime Blog

AI tools like ChatGPT can help you excel at work in all sorts of ways. In this article, discover 10 specific and practical ways how.

DeskTime Insights•Viesturs Abelis

GitHub - nichtdax/awesome-totally-open-chatgpt: A list of totally open alternatives to ChatGPT

A list of totally open alternatives to ChatGPT. Contribute to nichtdax/awesome-totally-open-chatgpt development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub•nichtdax

Tech

Qwik Reaches RC Milestone

After months of hard work and community feedback, we are excited to announce Qwik RC!

Builder.io

Next.js vs. Angular: Comparing key features and use cases - LogRocket Blog

Next.js and Angular are both popular JavaScript frameworks for developing web applications. Let’s compare their features, use cases, and more.

LogRocket Blog•Temitope Oyedele

Develop Skills with Free Courses in Tech | IBM SkillsBuild

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In defence of pull requests | johnnyreilly

Some people feel that pull requests are a barrier to contribution. I disagree.

John Reilly•John Reilly

From a Fan: On the Ascendance of PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is seeing a resurgence because it’s extensible, offers a great developer experience and performs well in Spring and Java apps.

The New Stack•Josh Long

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