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Conquer college and set yourself up for a productive career.
 • Gio
Reject Performative Busyness
Optimize for progress, not theater.
 • Gio
Parkinson's law strikes again
Even a best-selling productivity master cannot stop work expanding to fill the time available for its completion.
 • Gio
Is This The End Of The Superintelligence Bandwagon?
AI scaling laws fail to deliver, but is this enough to stop prophets and preachers?
 • Gio
Money Is A Neutral Indicator Of Value
How do you know when you’re “making a difference”?
 • Gio
AI Does Not Need Welfare
You can’t mistreat an algorithm.
 • Gio
Three Tips To Get Started With Deep Work
So you decided to try out this deep work thing that everyone is talking about.
 • Gio
Break free from mediocrity
The discipline to push for higher standards will buy you freedom on several axes.
 • Gio
Swift did not disrupt the iOS job market, and neither will AI
Writing code is only a tiny fraction of what it takes to develop great software.
 • Gio
Process over people
Managing processes, not people, is the key to maintain productivity and foster creativity.
 • Gio
A training plan for cognitive fitness
To get smarter, you need to put in the reps.
 • Gio
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