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Recently I had a conversation with an experienced manager responsible for over 300 employees. She expressed the view that in the next ten years we could see such significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI) that the skills shortage will no longer be a problem and we could all work less for the same productivity. I find that perspective interesting, but I’m more skeptical about what AI can actually do. While AI can certainly help automate repetitive tasks, I find the fear that AI could fully replace human creativity and complex interpersonal skills problematic. Creativity is more than recognizing patterns; it involves creating something entirely new — something that often has subtle, authentic nuances. ...

Esther Perel posts on Instagram Creativity is an active engagement with the unknown, it’s risk-taking, it’s curiosity, it’s exploration, it’s discovery, it’s mystery. It’s all of that.

“Waydroid” is an exciting project that provides a full Android system in a Linux container. It runs on ARM, ARM64, x86, and x86_64 CPUs and has direct access to the hardware, since it is not a virtual machine (VM). Although it may seem obvious, I still want to mention it: this project is Open Source. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

Automattic announced in its blog post “Shipping Tumblr and WordPress” that Tumblr blogs will be migrated to WordPress. This decision was foreseeable after large parts of the staff were moved to other projects and the attempt to revive Tumblr failed. Going forward, the same product will technically be marketed under two brand names. In the long run this will probably be reduced to a single brand — I’d bet on that. ...

Thio Joe has released a new YouTube video: “Secrets of Windows Notepad”. In it he presents some lesser-known features of Microsoft’s Notepad. For example, Notepad automatically inserts the date and time when a document that begins with .log is opened. I hadn’t known about most of these features before. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.