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		<title>Tubi has more than 110 million monthly active users</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t realize that Tubi was owned by Fox, but I’m not at all surprised that it has taken off, with more than 110 million monthly active users: “It really feels like we are seeing both in Tubi’s results and in the market a clear validation of a strategy that Tubi has believed in and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Kleenex was originally marketed as a cold cream remover</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to the Everyday Abundance podcast, when they did an episode on handkerchiefs getting replaced by tissues: I didn’t realize where the name Kleenex came from: Kleenex began during the First World War when the Cellucotton company developed a crepe paper gas mask filter. In the 1920s, the product was modified into the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The twilight of the chatbots</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, Ethan Mollick notes, work at OpenAI looks like managing AI: A quarter of OpenAI workers have at least four agents running at one time every week. And, as coding is done by AIs in specialized harnesses and apps, other roles start to become coders of a sort. And they are good at it. A [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Do something, not everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2024, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), he met up with a group of General Magic alumni to discuss their proto-iPhone: It had been three decades since they went public—with no revenue—in Silicon Valley’s first “concept IPO.” […] On the day of the IPO, Sony’s investment in General Magic instantly [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The median salary for an aviation technician was $79,140 in 2024</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graduates in aviation maintenance from the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics are in demand, NPR reports, due to a labor shortage: After shifting their tassels and hugging their parents, they head to a nearby building for one last test. &#8220;Every one of the 54 Maintenance students took their final test graduation day or the morning after,&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Studying what, exactly, workers in a knowledge economy do all day</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/06/studying-what-exactly-workers-in-a-knowledge-economy-do-all-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gloria Mark, David Epstein’s explains (in Inside the Box), has been at the forefront of studying what, exactly, workers in a knowledge economy do all day: Early on, this meant that she and her colleagues were shadowing office workers with stopwatches and logging all of their activity. […] The resulting paper was published in 2004, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop starting and start finishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea that growth can come from a focus on limits, rather than limitless expansion, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), is at the core of a simple but profound idea: In the 1970s, Israeli physicist Eli Goldratt was working on algorithms to predict the behavior of atoms in heated crystals, when a friend [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The ideas that made an impact in the long run were those that embedded something new in something already established</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Shakespeare’s era, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), creativity was more associated with the ability to improve upon something that existed than with sheer originality: If the audience already knew the story, they could readily take in the unique aspects that each new creator brought to it. […] Robert McKee, in his classic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>General Magic had a right to any IP developed by employees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Magic was already in trouble, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), when a tech-support guy named Pierre Omidyar used his free time and personal website to start AuctionWeb: General Magic had a right to any IP developed by employees, so Omidyar dutifully showed the company’s lawyer that his site was generating traffic, connecting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Businesspeople weren’t going to use the Newton unless it included a phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 11:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Tesler, who was leading Apple’s Newton group, hired an anthropologist named Eleanor Wynn, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), to test the theory behind their business plan: Wynn reported back that business&#173;people weren’t going to use the Newton unless it included a phone. But adding a phone at that point (as General Magic [&#8230;]]]></description>
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