Creativity, Recession Leadership, AI Limits and More

Hello and happy Sunday!

We had a packed week this week: we published 6 original essays and 1 podcast episode. So sit back, relax, and get ready for the best of Every!

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How to Improve Your Creative Thinking

Alice Albrecht / Superorganizers

Creativity is our greatest human asset. But what actually is it? And how can we learn to do more of it?

In this piece, AI founder and cognitive neuroscience PhD, Alice Albrecht, examines the science of creativity and lays out some practical strategies for augmenting it.

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Rallying in a Recession

Lewis Kallow

In January 2008, Howard Schultz returned to the helm of Starbucks as CEO. The Great Recession was in full swing, and Starbucks was on the brink of insolvency.

But over the next two years, Schultz learned to lead through the recession and righted the ship. By 2010 Starbucks was posting record-breaking profits.

How did he do it? And what lessons can leaders learn about innovating during tough times? Lewis examines in part two of his series on Starbucks.

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Artificial Unintelligence

Dan Shipper / Superorganizers

If you want to build a sustaining advantage in AI the conventional wisdom says you have to build the technology required for a powerful model. But a powerful model is not just a function of technology.

It’s also a function of your willingness to get sued. In this essay Dan examines what this dynamic means for foundational models and the third party developers creating technology on top of them.

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