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"I got a $20 a month ChatGPT membership and I got a $20 a month Claude membership. And initially, I started by running pieces of writing through the machine and asking it for five suggestions to make the piece better."
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"I got a $20 a month ChatGPT membership and I got a $20 a month Claude membership. And initially, I started by running pieces of writing through the machine and asking it for five suggestions to make the piece better."

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"None of these devices — Oura Ring, Whoop — none of them release their quote-unquote proprietary algorithm. And I just think that human performance is so much more complex than an algorithm. I've also met people that said, 'I used to have two to three beers a night and I started wearing an Oura Ring or a Whoop and I realized this isn't good for me.' And for those people, great."
From: The Optimization Paradox Explained • ▶ 40:41 • Jul 20, 2026
Strava mentions software

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"There's this terrible thing for authors called an Amazon sales rank, which is essentially Strava, the app that runners use to track how they stack up in real time, except for authors."
From: The Optimization Paradox Explained • ▶ 29:16 • Jul 20, 2026
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"Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book Flow, a foundational book in performance psychology, defines a flow state as when we completely enter the zone, when we feel one with our activity, when we're really at our best."
From: The Optimization Paradox Explained • ▶ 27:39 • Jul 20, 2026
Digital Minimalism mentions media

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"The first is essentially the case that you made for social media in many apps and Digital Minimalism made towards these tracking tools, which is that people only see the benefits but they don't acknowledge the potential cost that comes with all this tracking."
From: The Optimization Paradox Explained • ▶ 9:27 • Jul 20, 2026

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