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As I was pondering how to describe Harrison Scott Key’s writing in How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told, the word “lightness” came to mind. A story of heartbreak and infidelity has every right to be heavy (while also risking heavy-handedness), yet Harrison defies gravity while excavating—and salvaging—the rubble of his once stable marriage. Somehow he does this without sacrificing any of the introspection and authenticity we expect from a great literary memoir.

Hi hello greetings, Gonna write some about baths, which are frequently a What’s Helping Today for me. A friend was staying here the other week and quizzing me about my bathing habits and about baths generally. She’s someone who’s taken showers in the morning her whole life but has lately become interested in other options. I was likewise a mandatory shower in the morning person once upon a time but have since changed.

Dear Subscribers, This post has been in the works for almost a year. While classroom/behavior management is perhaps the most vital aspect of teaching kindergarten (or any grade, for that matter), I haven’t broached the topic much here at Busy Bee Kindergarten. It’s not because I don’t feel it’s a top competency of mine—au contraire—or one of the most important aspects of teaching that I can possibly share with you. I’ve avoided this topic because managing a big bunch of five- and six-year-olds (one year 30 of them) has always been something I do naturally and not based on research, theories, models, or how anyone else says is the best way to manage kids.

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About four years ago, I decided to try and teach myself a language from scratch. This was a decision that came after years of believing that learning on ones own was impossible. I have neither the time nor resources to enrol in a formal school program, nor do my circumstances permit me to just take off and live in a foreign country of my choosing for immersion. These were two things I’d long been told were vital prerequisites to language learning, but were both, alas, beyond my reach.

Welcome to Zwischenzug! This newsletter goes out to 4,909 chess players. Sign up to get chess improvement advice delivered to your inbox. Chessable can be a controversial topic. Some swear by it as a way of streamlining your training. Others accuse it of promoting mindless memorization. Well, I just released a course on Chessable, so of course I think it’s a valuable tool. But I also see a lot of players using it in ways that aren’t optimal, so here are my suggestions to get the most out of the site.

Why did I watch this movie? Yes, okay, fine, I watched it because I had to, so I could be on the Pop Culture Happy Hourepisode discussing it. But I’ve been asking myself over and over since seeing Civil War: Why did I watch this movie? OK, saying “I had to” watch this movie isn’t quite right. I suppose I should cop to pretty much BEGGING to be on PCHH’s “Civil War” episode.

The more I write about how to get dressed, the more clear it becomes that I’m always trying to do the same thing: reflect multiple parts of me. Do you find that’s the case for you too? It’s like, I can’t just settle on wearing a tank top with denim shorts when it’s too hot for anything else because even though the combination would be an adequate solve to the problem of ventilation while engulfed in a blanket of steam, it doesn’t seem worth the possibility that I could be mistaken for the sum of this one, finite thing.

Much of the AI hype of 2023-24 has been centered around horizontal capabilities of foundational models. The real opportunity of AI lies not in creating mediocre marketing copy, but in the ability to reconfigure value creation across vertical value chains. While most AI hype is centred around horizontal B2C use cases, the real opportunity lies in vertical B2B AI. This post unpacks the the opportunity of vertical AI and how companies can win this game.