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Yesterday, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were fired from the Board of Directors of OpenAI. Following, all of Tech Twitter was abuzz with one question: wait a moment, who was on the Board? And after they found out, they asked: who on earth are Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner? It turns out that OpenAI’s Board had undergone numerous changes over the years, especially recently. And that just wasn’t ever the biggest news about OpenAI, so those changes didn’t spark the concerns that maybe they should have.

Hello everyone! This week is a little bit special, one of our readers (which happened to be linked to one of our previous interviewees) recommended to me this band and sent me their info for an interview. I preferred letting her conduct the interview and write the article. I want to thank her for this amazing work and I will let her present herself. Just a quick note, for the moment, the band doesn’t have a Spotify or Apple Music page but you will find links to their videos on Instagram or YouTube.

On Tuesday of last week, Tempest (fka Hip Sobriety) was acquired by Monument, an early stage organization that provides MAT (medication-assisted treatment) and therapy to help folks stop drinking. That might mean nothing to you, or maybe it means everything. I don’t know how to talk about it yet, the same way someone might not be able to talk about an endless divorce that won’t stop coming for you, new papers served every time you think you’ve finally moved on; the same way you might not be able to talk about something you haven’t even begun to mourn.

In our everyday language we do not sufficiently distinguish between play and contest. We put our children into contests, and we call them play. We think we are providing children with an opportunity to play when we are not. One of the defining characteristics of play is it is activity conducted for its own sake, not for some reward outside of itself (see Letter #2). Contest, in contrast, is activity in which two or more individuals or teams compete for some prize, which might be material (e.

Hi everyone!! Two weeks ago I wrote about my thoughts on engagement rings in general, but this issue is all about how to actually buy an engagement ring–a no bullshit, not trying to sell you anything, extremely practical guide that’s perfect for people who claim they have “no idea what they’re doing.” This is by far the longest issue I’ve ever written, which says a lot coming from me, haha. I’m sure you know this, but in case someone else forwarded this to you, I got engaged in December and worked in the jewelry industry for five years selling vintage engagement rings in my 20s.

A REASON sometimes given for the relative paucity of scientific research on play is that the concept is difficult or impossible to define. That’s a poor excuse, in my opinion, but I agree that a scientific investigation of anything must start with a shared understanding of just what it is we are investigating. Like many English words, “play” can have various meanings. The question here is not “what is the proper definition of play,” but “what do I and most other play researchers mean by play?

Hello, and welcome to the Tips for Teachers newsletter. For over 400 ideas to try out the very next time you step into the classroom, check out my Tips for Teacher book. Here is a scenario I see play out time and time again in classrooms: The teacher starts the students off on an activity where they have been asked to work independently and in silence. The room is quiet. But after a few seconds, a few hands go up.

I use a bike for all of my local travels. On most of these short trips, and sometimes long ones, I travel solo. So, for the longest time, I have only owned one helmet. On rare occasions, when I have someone with me, the pillion has to travel without a helmet. But when I have a pillion, I am extra careful at the turns, just to make sure the police are not waiting to catch people travelling without helmets.

Dear friends, Our word work has two different meanings. It can mean toil, which is unpleasant activity; or it can mean any activity that accomplishes something useful, whether or not the activity is pleasant. We use the same word for both of these meanings, because, in our culture, the two meanings often overlap. To a considerable degree, we view life as a process of doing unpleasant work to achieve necessary or desired ends.