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The Power of Being an Amateur

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today's business culture, expertise is currency. We celebrate mastery,
reward pattern recognition, and prize leaders who can quickly
distinguish signal from noise. But in doing so, we've created an
unexpected trap for ourselves: The more you become "somebody" in your
chosen field (recognized, accomplished, authoritative), the more your
thinking tends to calcify, limiting your flexibility and creativity.
The management scholar Erik Dane has called this problem "cognitive
entrenchment," and the researchers Huy Phan and Bing Hiong Ngu have
documented it widely across professions.

Editor's Note: Neuroscience suggests that this practice, which I call
strategic amateurism, is essential to becoming a dynamic leader.
Researchers have shown that when we try something unfamiliar, the
brain's reward system activates, releasing dopamine and forging fresh
neural connections, which are the building blocks of neuroplasticity.
Experiencing novelty doesn't just stimulate the brain; it pushes it to
reconfigure itself in real time, expanding cognitive flexibility.
Other studies suggest that new challenges can not only accelerate
skill development but also sharpen the range of thinking leaders draw
on in their day-to-day jobs. Continued here
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What large-scale US military action against Venezuela could look like
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Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in
London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the
U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She joined
Newsweek in January 2023, having previously worked as a reporter at
the Daily Express, and is a graduate of International Journalism at
City, University of London. Languages: English, Spanish.You can reach
Ellie via email at [email protected].

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The 65-year-old theory that helps explain why the Democrats keep
losing
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Democratic strategists think the party has a messaging problem.
Post-election autopsies overflowed with countless cross-tabs of how
Democrats underperformed with demographic after demographic. There are
endless debates about which words poll better (should Democrats stop
using microaggression?) as if anybody were even listening.

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'This is mission critical': Inside Tesla's battle to get Full
Self-Driving approved in Europe - Business Insider
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For nearly a year, Tesla has been teasing a European rollout of Full
Self-Driving, its driver-assist software. It has posted videos of its
cars navigating narrow Roman streets, busy German boulevards, and
Paris's Arc de Triomphe all while touting an ambitious timeline for
the product.

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China plans to outpace Neuralink with a state-backed brain chip blitz
- seven ministries, a 17-point roadmap, and clinical trials where
patients play chess
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Plan aims to streamline approval by bringing regulators in at the
beginning, potentially shaving years off the lab-to-market timeline.

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Crypto scandal sinks Russian elites $8.5mn polar party cruise - FT
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Company owned by France's billionaire Pinault family sued by
Russian-owned travel agency after trip collapses following payments
chief's arrest

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Prigozhins Ghost Haunts Africa Corps - Foreign Policy
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Two years ago, Wagner Group frontman Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a
plane crash along with the group's top deputies.

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Ukraines Fight at Home - Foreign Affairs [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=229756&nl=daily]
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Ukrainians know how to make their voices heard-and to make their
leaders listen.

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Top pension fund pulls 14bn from BlackRock in sustainability pivot -
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One of Europe's largest pension funds has pulled about 14bn from
BlackRock as it increases its focus on sustainability after an
overhaul of its investment strategy.

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Chicagos criminals are learning more lucrative tricks -
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Visitors to Chicago often worry about gun crime. The president
certainly does-on August 25th, he called the city "a disaster" and a
"killing field" as he threatened to send in National Guard troops.
This year however violence is dramatically down. Robberies have fallen
a third on last year. The city is on track for its lowest murder rate
in more than a decade

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Inside Amazon's 'hardcore' culture reset - Business Insider
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In the past year, the company has slashed layers of management,
increasing worker-to-manager ratios by 15%. He's enforced strict cost
discipline, down to monitoring how employees' company-issued phone use
is work-related. He's updated performance metrics and pay structures.
He's sent the vast majority of corporate employees back to the office
five days a week. He's created a "bureaucracy mailbox," to which
employees are encouraged to flag unnecessary processes or rules that
could be streamlined or eliminated; Amazon says the initiative has
already led to 375 changes.

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Big shakeups to the childhood vaccination schedule could be nearing -
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Public health experts are bracing for what could be fundamental
changes to childhood vaccine policies that dont align with scientific
consensus, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention undergoes
a major leadership shakeup.

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Google Shares Up Nearly 6% After Judge Rules It Doesn't Have To Sell
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Shares of Googles parent company, Alphabet, rose sharply in premarket
trading early on Wednesday, after a federal judge ruled that the
company does not need to be broken up or be forced to sell its popular
Chrome web browser to remedy its search market monopoly.

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How Modi Is Sending Trump a Message
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It was a sight to behold. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined
Chinas Xi Jinping and Russias Vladimir Putin in Tianjin on Monday,
laughing, trading smiles, and even holding hands.

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Instagram is coming to iPad, 15 years later
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The first thing you'll see is a Reel video.

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Is Ghosting Inevitable? - The New Yorker [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=229756&nl=daily]
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Any new technology created for the purpose of human connection also
creates an opportunity for novel forms of missed connection: the
envelope returned to sender, the unanswered phone call, the forlorn
voice mail. We replace face-to-face interaction with layers of
mediation, each with its own chance of breakdown. The fear of losing
touch is rooted in human nature; in eleventh-century Japan, women of
the imperial court fretted in the hours following a tryst, as they
waited for the customary morning-after poem from their lover. Proust
wrote that the silence of the person one loves is more cruel than the
silence of prisons. Social media, which was supposed to bring humanity
closer together, has also created a smorgasbord of new ways to be
rejectedD.M.s left on read, posts gone unliked, friends unfriendedthat
can engender the age-old fear of being ignored. Facebook users might
recall a time when a declined friend request or unrequited poke could
be sources of anxiety. But worse than blatant rejection is the absence
of any signal, the total disappearance of the other party. This
vanishing act, called ghosting, has become a persistent feature of
twenty-first-century life. Dominic Pettman, a cultural theorist and
professor of media at the New School, in New York City, examines this
contemporary phenomenon in Ghosting: On Disappearance, a slim new
monograph published this month by Polity. Just as we inevitably
invented the car crash when we invented automobiles, we also created
ghosting when we created the internet, Pettman writes.

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Chimps, Humans and Macaques All Love a Little Drama - Scientific
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The human fascination with watching otherswhether through reality TV,
Instagram stories or overheard dramais often dismissed as nosiness.
But new research suggests this impulse may be a social survival tool
dating back millions of years.

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Why It's So Hard to Delegate - and How to Improve
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A conversation with MIT Sloan's Elsbeth Johnson on letting go
effectively.

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How jet lag cost the global face of Japan Inc his job - WSJ
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Seeking a treatment for that bane of all globe-trotting executives,
the 66-year-old turned to dietary supplements widely available in
Japan and the U.S., he said at a news conference in Tokyo Wednesday.

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China should not fuel an arms race, says a close watcher of its
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THE HIGH-PROFILE display of nuclear might that China staged at its
latest military parade on September 3rd showcased a full spectrum of
land-, sea- and air-based systems. Remarkably, for land-based
intercontinental ballistic missiles alone, it unveiled three new
systems simultaneously, including a silo-based missile probably
intended for large-scale deployment in the open terrain of north-west
China.

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Inside Harvard's Elite Founder Class, Students Learn to Build Amid
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On Wednesday, Satchu kicks off the latest iteration of his Harvard
Business School course the Founder Mindset, which aims to inculcate in
its students the methods and attitudes of a startup founder and, even
more vitally, develop in them what he calls a muscle called judgment.

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China is using the private sector to advance military AI - WSJ
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In a study published in January last year, researchers at Shanghai
Jiao Tong University showed how artificial intelligence could be used
to deploy weapons systems in automated kill webs" that would adjust in
real time to battlefield changes during combat at sea.

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Putin and Xi brainstorm living to 150 with modern organ transplants
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were
captured privately talking about living to at least 150 years old on
the sidelines of China's massive Victory Day parade in Beijing.

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'No place in children's hands': under-16s in England to be banned from
buying energy drinks
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Government to ban sale of energy drinks with more than 150mg of
caffeine, citing concerns over obesity and lack of concentration

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Democrats Can't Afford to Ignore Trump's Creeping Fascism -
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How a five-toed running shoe became cool-to fashion people - WSJ
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When Nicolaia Rips was in middle school, she remembers the dorkiest
kid" wearing Vibram FiveFingers, utilitarian running shoes with
articulated toes meant to simulate the feeling of being barefoot.
Still, the fashion writer couldnt help but buy a pair after seeing
them pop up on her Instagram feed.

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When You're Suddenly Managing More People - and Feeling Buried
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Five strategies for leading at scale.

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New York City Is in the Midst of a Maximalist Chicken Moment -
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Over-the-top servings of the bird, which go for as much as $160, are a
break from formulaic dining.

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'Almost unimaginable': these ants are different species but share a
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Nature - Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create
hybrid workers that do their bidding.

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Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of
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Police say there is no evidence of foul play, ahead of local elections
in western Germany.

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Video: In a Rare Sign of Protest, a Chinese Activist Challenges the
C.C.P.
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In an act of defiance against China's Communist Party, an activist
projected anti-C.C.P. slogans on a building and managed to flee one of
the world's most surveilled countries without being caught.

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Spouses Tend to Share Psychiatric Disorders, Massive Study Finds -
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People with a psychiatric disorder are more likely to marry someone
who has the same condition than to partner with someone who doesnt,
according to a massive study suggesting that the pattern persists
across cultures and generations.

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UN Watchdog Says its Lost Knowledge Of Irans Nuclear Work - Bloomberg
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Iran's blackout of international inspections has led to a critical
loss of knowledge about the country's nuclear work, the United Nations
atomic watchdog wrote in two restricted reports, their first
circulated among diplomats in the wake of Israeli and US attacks on
the Islamic Republic's nuclear program in June.

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Earth's capacity to store carbon could max out surprisingly soon
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Around 1,460 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide can be safely stored
underground, but this limit could be reached by 2200.

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Extreme Heat Makes Your Body Age Faster - WIRED
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The researchers are not talking about the effects of solar radiation
on the skin, but biological aging. Unlike chronological agethat answer
that you give when asked how old you areyour biological age reflects
how well your cells, tissues, and organs are functioning. Biological
age can be calculated by looking at physiological and molecular
markers in the body as well as by using various tests, for instance by
measuring lung function, cognitive ability, or bone density.

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AI Music: The Infinite Jukebox - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=229756&nl=daily]
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Generative AI models trained on vast swaths of popular music can
create songs almost indistinguishable from human-made work. For some,
they represent the future of pop music.

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Amazon cracks down on Prime free shipping sharing
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The company is ending the program in favor of Amazon Family, which
lets users share Prime benefits with another adult, but they must
share the same address.

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Dan Kleban Joins Maine Democratic Primary, Seeking to Unseat Senator
Susan Collins
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Dan Kleban enters a crowded Democratic primary as party leaders wait
for Maine’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, who is “seriously
considering” a run for Senate.

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Trump brothers-backed bitcoin mining company is set to list on Nasdaq
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American Bitcoin, a bitcoin mining and accumulation business backed by
President Trumps two eldest sons, is set to list its shares Wednesday
in the latest test of investors appetite for a Trump-linked crypto
venture.

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FDA approves at-home Alzheimer's shot to effectively slow disease
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new version
of an Alzheimer's disease drug that can be given as a quick at-home
weekly injection, offering patients a far more convenient option than
lengthy infusion-center visits. It will be widely available from
October 6, 2025.

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Are ultra-processed foods really so unhealthy? What the science says -
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These foods have been linked to obesity and other health troubles, but
some scientists argue the grouping is too broad to guide dietary
choices.

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How to Go From Quiet to Commanding - Inc [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=229756&nl=daily]
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Youre smart, capable, and consistently deliver results. But in
meetings, your voice disappears. As an executive coach with over two
decades of experience, Ive helped hundreds of introverted leaders find
their voice, speak up, and lead with impact.

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More workers look to employers for financial advice: survey
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Bank of America found 26% of surveyed workers are actively seeking
support with emergency savings, debt reduction, and general financial
wellness

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China parade: What new weapons on show say about Beijing's military
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Beijing has unveiled a range of military hardware in a show of might
to Western powers.

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Florida officials say the state will work to eliminate all childhood
vaccine mandates
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Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the
state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb
vaccine requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic. DeSantis also
announced on Wednesday the creation of a state-level "Make America
Healthy Again" commission modeled after the initiatives pushed by
federal Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On
the vaccines, state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo cast current
requirements in schools and elsewhere as an "immoral" intrusion on
people's rights and parents' ability to make health decisions for
their children. Some vaccine mandates can be ended by the state Health
Department and others would require legislative action.

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Nestle fires boss after romantic relationship with employee
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He initially received $105m (£77.5m) in a severance package which he
later returned. In 2023, he was fined $400,000 by the US financial
watchdog for misleading investors. He paid the penalty without
admitting or denying the claims.

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Job opening data falls to levels rarely seen since pandemic
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The Job Openings and Labor Turnover report showed less than 7.2
million listings in July.

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MrBeast reportedly plans to launch a phone company
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MrBeast, the 27-year-old popular YouTuber, plans to launch a phone
company as he diversifies his brand.

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OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental
controls
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OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to
reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the
next month - part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents
involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress.

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Venezuela, Drug Boats and Trump's Latest Claim: What to Know
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The Trump administration says Venezuela is sending vast amounts of
cocaine to the United States. Venezuela’s role in the drug trade is
overstated, experts say.

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U.S. and Mexico Vow to Cooperate Against Crime as Rubio Meets
Sheinbaum
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with President Claudia Sheinbaum,
after she pressed the Trump administration not to take unilateral
action in Mexico.

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