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Notion AI opened to the public yesterday to put a digital assistant inside your documents. The AI can offer writing or editing suggestions, summarize notes, or generate idea lists. Read on for how to make the most of Notion AI. Notion AI is like a robot that has read and analyzed the entire Internet. Its training enables it to make detailed suggestions based on millions of documents it has studied.

I’m joining a brand I love, a business model I believe in, a mission that inspires me, and a founder, team, and community that make me want to be all-in.  I am so happy to now be President, COO, and Board member of Athletic Greens, one of the fastest-growing nutrition companies in the US (and soon to be the world). After advising the company and its founder and CEO, Chris Ashenden, for a good bit of the year, the opportunity to join the company was just too exciting to pass up.

Good morning. Let’s basketball. Saint Francis; Francisco de Zurbaran; 1658-64 It’s fitting that the Milwaukee Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers were both ejected from the NBA playoffs on the same night, by teams they came into the season well ahead of in any sort of rankings or analysis. These were considered to be the East’s top two challengers to the Boston Celtics, depending on how you rated the magical Miami Heat. The Sixers had the whole James Harden thing hanging over them but came roaring out of the gate with Tyrese Maxey looking like a top-2 guard in the East and Joel Embiid having raised the bar on his own MVP-caliber performance.

“Taylor Swift is the Beatles, Travis Kelce is Yoko.” -The Boston Globe Last Sunday, women took over the most impenetrable mojo dojo casa house: The National Football League. For 24 hours, the NFL (one of the most masculine institutions in the world) was under siege and under the supreme authority of our Lord Savior Taylor Swift (a leading global female institution) and this was my Roman Empire. The pop star went to Travis Kelce’s (her rumored boyfriend) game, and now football will never be the same.

I have been hosting a series of conversations, called “The Nietzsche Dialogues”, in preparation for an upcoming course on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which starts July 15th 2022. So far I have discussed Nietzsche’s relation to Christianity with the founder of Maniphesto, Paul Robson; I have explored an idiosyncratic tantric / integral interpretation of Nietzsche with the co-creator of The Integral Stage, Layman Pascal; and I have attempted to approach a meta-level of Nietzsche in relation to Rene Girard’s mimetic theory, with rogue Girardian theorist, Thomas Hamelryck.

This episode had a tall order to fill after last week, but splashy entrances, cute creatures, and an unsettling, spooky mood made for another riveting installment. A classic fantasy archetype performs important functions for the series and Star Wars more broadly. (That’s purposefully cryptic, much like this episode.)  [SPOILER WARNING: This review is a one-way trip into spoiler territory. Traverse it at your own risk!] Image Credit: IGN Witch, please. 

If you’ve been around here for a while, you know that I’ve been counting down the 101 best players in Reds history. Here’s the most recent installment; we’ve made it to #90 so far (Eugenio Suarez). By the time we get to #1, hopefully I’ll have figured out where to install Elly De La Cruz on this list. Will he be number one, or only number two? I guess you’ll have to stay tuned to find out.

Today I would like to share my version of a myth. In Celtic mythology, we are told of Nine Sisters who guard a holy vessel on an Otherworldly island. These myths may be the prototype of the later medieval grail quests in which women - often nine of them - guard the vessel in the form of a cup, a cauldron or a grail. ncG1vNJzZmifkZe%2FqrHLmqSgraSesrO%2BxLNlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8tbTEZqWippViwKq%2F056prA%3D%3D

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