A guide to building better habits by taking control of your reward circuits — Humans are always looking for rewards. Every action we do rewards us in some way, releasing dopamine, a chemical that motivates us and causes feelings of pleasure. And some acts give more dopamine than others. Think about how much easier it is to choose a snack like cookies or chocolate…

Why the hardest tasks don’t require the strongest wills, if any at all — When we look at insanely productive people, those that wake up super early each morning and somehow work out, followed by time spent working on their dreams and still finding time for family and the ones they love, we remark on their willpower. And then we compare them to us…

Anti-natalism and the argument for why you shouldn’t have been born — Think of the last day you did not suffer. A day where you felt no hunger or thirst, you didn’t feel too hot or too cold, or when you didn’t feel tired all day. Try to remember a week where you had no itches or allergies or any frustrations at…

True art and creativity are soon to be the last bastions of human uniqueness over AI, but for how long will it stay that way? — Over the past few years, we’ve been seeing headlines about artificial intelligence and bots being programmed to create music. Most of these were quite crappy at first, but some newer ones have shown to be surprisingly adept at creating music and paintings, to the point that most people couldn’t tell…

A guide to how visualizing your goals negatively can make you work towards your goal from day one — Visualization has become a popular technique among other productivity tips in the past few years. You’ll see articles or books on the topic everywhere, parading it as the secret ticket to achieving your goals. But visualization of your perfect future has more issues than many of these self-help authors would…

My secret tool that creates allows me to easily create content in less than 15 minutes — With AI on the rise and automation growing everywhere, it’s only a matter of time before the creator economy faces these issues. And this might be happening sooner than you think. In fact, we already have tools and apps that can create content at an impossible rate for us humans. …

As artificial intelligence grows, so will our understanding of consciousness and what it means to be human — On June 11, Google engineer Blake Lemoine released a transcript of his conversation with LaMDA. LaMDA is Google’s machine-learning model that mimics human speech and thought, and Lemoine believed it was sentient. While the consensus remains that LaMDA has a way to go before attaining sentience, there is a lot…

If you went throughout life never having changed a thing about the world, would you have lived? — The question and meaning of existence have thwarted philosophers for centuries. From eastern Buddhist philosophers to the Ancient Greeks and modern-day professors, there have been thousands of answers to this question, and yet there is no agreed response. But a slightly different question came to me a while ago. I…

Why our society‘s apathy to sleep is killing you slowly every day — We’ve all heard how important a good night’s sleep is. But until recently, we didn’t understand how important it is. Sleep was touted as evolution’s big mistake, leaving us defenceless and unable to search for food for a third of our lives, and this view is reflected in today’s societies…