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There is growing evidence that AI can help us learn hard-to-teach human skills, like showing empathy. In a preregistered study of 968 people found almost no correlation between feeling empathic & communicating empathy. But a single practice session with an AI coach made people measurably better at.

Paper: it https://lnkd.in/eEX2BwUJ

I impulse purchased a boat from craigslist in 2020. Everyone told me not to do it, but those were desperate times..

Boats are expensive.
Boats always break.
You won’t use it after the first year.

All things I heard. Blah blah blah.

This thing has been a beast. Legit do nothing on it but change the oil, don’t even witnerize the thing.

6 years later. It just sat for 5 months, and the darn thing fired right up. With a tad of smoke. Same thing every year, it’s wonderful.

Like it just said, “let’s make some memories this summer.”

No chance they see this but shout out to Mercury Marine for building the Mercruiser 3.0 - straight up bullet proof.

Long story short, buy fun things even if people tell you not to 😂

ISN’T THIS EVIDENCE OF A CURE FOR AGING ?

Who knew the fountain of youth was actually as simple as getting a four legged, furry, friend.


“I don’t think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” 
—John D. Rockefeller

DOGS ARE THE BEST

Someone built a LinkedIn Translate tool.

I’m DEAD 😂😅

Some of the most important decisions in my life did not come from knowing.
They came from asking, waiting, and trusting.

That process never really ends.

This company just 3D printed a 12-meter ship hull.
An actual boat you could use, printed by robotic arms.

For the past few years, we’ve seen AI generate text, images, video, music, code.

Now we are moving towards prompt-matter.

We already watched content explode. Posts, images, videos, websites, apps, code; anyone can generate them now.

The next step is moving that same idea into the physical world, where you can literally prompt to 3D print and generate real objects and products like we generate content today.

CEAD Group built this directly from a digital model. Instead of creating large molds and going through the usual heavy assembly process, the robots printed the hull straight from the file.

This will force us to rethink a lot of things. How products are made, what we buy, what we sell, and even how supply chains work.

Follow Endrit Restelica for more.

Taking everything personally is exhausting.

It’s even harder when you’re trying to be liked.

It wears you down, especially at work:

💬 You don’t get the response you hoped for
💬 Someone cuts you off in a meeting
💬 A client is short with you

And your mind fills in the gaps:
❌ “I must have messed up.”
❌ “They don’t respect me.”
❌ “I’m not good enough.”

But here’s the truth:

Most of the time, it’s not about you.
It’s about them - their stress, their filters, their story.

When you stop taking things personally,
you take back your power.

Protect your peace with these 5 steps:

1. Pause before reacting
→ Let the first wave of emotion pass. Most emotions are temporary.

2. Assume positive or neutral intent
→ Don’t default to worst-case thinking.

3. Detach your worth from outcomes
→ A failed pitch doesn’t mean you failed. It just wasn’t the right fit.

4. Don’t personalize vague feedback
→ Ask clarifying questions. Stay curious, not defensive.

5. Remember: Everyone is fighting their own battle
→ Their behaviour is a reflection of them, not a definition of you.

You can’t control what others do.

But you can choose what you carry.

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Injecting settings in .NET?

You have 3 main interfaces to choose from. But picking the wrong one means your app might completely ignore your config changes.

Here is the simple breakdown:

1️⃣ IOptions
• Read once at startup.
• Cached for the entire lifetime of the app.
• Perfect for static settings that never change.

2️⃣ IOptionsSnapshot
• Re-evaluated on every single request.
• Picks up appsettings.json changes without restarting your app.
• Perfect for web APIs (Scoped lifetime).

3️⃣ IOptionsMonitor
• Real-time updates.
• Triggers an event exactly when a setting changes.
• Perfect for background services (Singleton lifetime).

The Rule of Thumb: Use IOptions for static config. Upgrade to IOptionsSnapshot in web apps. Reach for IOptionsMonitor when you need change notifications in background workers.

Want a deeper dive into how the Options Pattern works under the hood?

Read my full breakdown here: https://lnkd.in/d4wfFdC9

Which of these three do you find yourself using the most?

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