Daily bread 06/23/2025

• I use this 'blank line' prompt every day now — here’s why | Tom's Guide

  • “One idea no one’s thought of yet for solving this problem is ___”

• 5 ChatGPT Prompts That Force ChatGPT To Think 10x Deeper

  • "Based on what you know about my business goals and challenges, generate three distinct strategies for [specific business challenge]. For each strategy, include the primary benefits, potential drawbacks, and implementation requirements. After providing all three options, rank them from most to least effective for my specific situation, explaining the key trade-offs that influenced your ranking."
  • "Challenge your thinking by identifying potential blind spots, questioning key assumptions, and offering alternative perspectives I might not have considered."
  • "I've developed a plan for [describe your plan]. Based on what you know about successful approaches in this area, create and apply an expert success checklist to evaluate my plan. For each criterion on your checklist, explain why it matters, assess how well my plan addresses it, and suggest specific improvements where needed. Focus on factors that most directly influence success or failure."

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Daily bread 06/22/2025

• Why Do Non-Americans Refer to “Z” as “Zed”? - Word Smarts

  • align with
  • the English-speaking world
  • feet instead of yards
  • own unique way of doing things
  • Fahrenheit instead of Celsius
  • identity extends to
  • borrowed that letter from
  • which in turn inspired
  • was adopted as
  • may have to do with
  • shortly after declaring independence
  • trying to create a unique identity
  • to standardize
  • his conception of
  • differed from
  • was solidified
  • you likely know it as
  • in his lyrics
  • came shortly before it
  • has been used to
  • has become fully entrenched in
  • it more closely aligns with

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Daily bread 06/13/2025

• The short, dramatic history of alien abduction in the US | Aeon Essays

  • But, in

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Daily bread 06/12/2025

• Should Ethiopian philosophy be universalist or Africanist? | Aeon Essays

  • the works of the French historian Anaïs Wion and the Ethiopian politician Daniel Kibret, I abandoned that position.

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Daily bread 06/04/2025

• Midweek Sanity Oasis: How We Render Reality and Attention as an Instrument of Love

  • we live out our lives in a subjective reality defined by what we agree to attend to
  • we live largely in the territory of the unanswerable because there is no pure attention — the aperture of our attention is constricted by myriad conditionings and focused by a brain honed on millions of years of evolutionary necessities, many of which we have long outgrown.
  • “the very brain mechanisms which succeed in simplifying the world so as to subject it to our control militate against a true understanding of it,”
  • to braid neuropsychology (the way our brains shape our impression of reality), epistemology (the way we come to know anything at all), and metaphysics (our yearning to wrest meaning from fundamental truth as we try to discern the nature of the universe)
  • “love is the quality of attention we pay to things.”
  • The world we experience — which is the only one we can know — is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it.
  • “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,”
  • “the type, and extent, of attention we pay changes the nature of the world that we experience,”

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