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Paradoxes: a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. Useful Links:20 Mind-blowing Paradoxes15 Paradoxes
The Productivity Paradox
Work longer, get less done.
Parkinson's Law says that work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
When you establish fixed hours to your work, you find unproductive ways to fill it.
2. ChatGPT:ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that’s designed to help people communicate with computers in a more natural and intuitive way — using natural language processing (NLP) technology.Useful Links:OpenAITechCrunchCNet
ChatGPT launched just 5 days ago and already crossed 1 million users.
Here’s what you should know about one of the most disruptive technologies ever created.
3. Uniformity in Architecture: Do buildings across the world look similar? It seems that "forces of technology, religion, colonialism, economics, style, and practicality have conspired to create regional, continental, and even global homogenous styles". It has been there throughout history.
This might not be going where you think.
Because, for centuries, the forces of technology, religion, colonialism, economics, style, and practicality have conspired to create regional, continental, and even global homogenous styles.
4. Austrian Business Cycle: The Austrian business cycle theory is a theory that was developed by the Austrian School of Economics. It explains how business cycles happen and how they are caused by too much growth in bank credit. The ABCT teaches that when bank credit grows too fast, it causes the business cycle to happen. This is because businesses use a lot of bank loans to finance their investments, and when the loans become too easy to get, this causes a lot of businesses to go bankrupt.
First introduced by Ludwig von Mises in his 'Theory of Money and Credit' (1912), ABCT has been expanded upon by Murray Rothbard, Friedrich Hayek and Roger Garrison. Here is a succinct explanation of the ABCT from Mises himself: 2/
5. The Real Mukhtar Baba: Newslaundry's Mukhtar Baba has been actively conspiring against India while working with ISI and Turkey. An expose.
NewsLaundry gave clean chit to #MukhtarBaba against the intelligence agencies of India. It found no evidence of terror & radical Islamist link of Mukhtar Baba.
Ayush Tiwari (@sighyush) could’ve saved a lot of sweat by doing some basic Google.
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