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Ramp to the future
the best marketing teams will become more engineer-led over time. Great example from Ramp - 'Vibe Growth Marketing Manager'.
What's in the role
- The ability for someone to do work autonomously, end-to-end, from idea to execution. It literally says it in the job spec, 'without needing support from Engineering.'
- Being skilled in AI workflow tools to build agents that improve speed, personalization, and targeting across marketing channels. Marketers will gradually become AI agent trainers and managers.
- Prototype + ship vs. meetings & memos
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You may not see this happening yet, as we're still early, but it is happening.
What's in the role
- The ability for someone to do work autonomously, end-to-end, from idea to execution. It literally says it in the job spec, 'without needing support from Engineering.'
- Being skilled in AI workflow tools to build agents that improve speed, personalization, and targeting across marketing channels. Marketers will gradually become AI agent trainers and managers.
- Prototype + ship vs. meetings & memos
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You may not see this happening yet, as we're still early, but it is happening.
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Small slice of reality
You don’t live in the real universe — you live in the tiny slice your senses can detect.
Most of what exists around you is invisible, inaudible, untouchable.
Scientists estimate that 95% of the universe is hidden from human perception, meaning almost everything happening in reality never registers in your brain at all.
Your eyes only detect a narrow band of light — 380 to 770 nanometres.
Your ears hear just 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz.
Everything outside that range is constantly passing through you:
Ultraviolet and infrared light
Ultrasonic and infrasonic sound
Radio waves moving through walls
Cosmic rays showering Earth
And neutrinos — star-born particles — streaming through your body by the trillions every second
We navigate the world as if we see everything, when in truth we sense almost nothing, or very very little .
Technology widened the keyhole.
Infrared cameras show heat.
Ultrasonic sensors hear what we can’t.
Radio telescopes reveal galaxies invisible to the naked eye.
But even with all our tools, the greatest pieces of the cosmos — dark matter and dark energy — remain complete mysteries.
They hold the universe together, shape its expansion, and yet we cannot see or touch them.
It’s a humbling truth:
we don’t perceive reality in full.
We perceive a filtered version built for survival, not understanding.
The universe is larger, stranger, and more beautiful than anything our senses allow us to experience — and we’re only just beginning to uncover the rest.
Fun Fact:
Every second, about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body — but you’ll never feel a single one.
Most of what exists around you is invisible, inaudible, untouchable.
Scientists estimate that 95% of the universe is hidden from human perception, meaning almost everything happening in reality never registers in your brain at all.
Your eyes only detect a narrow band of light — 380 to 770 nanometres.
Your ears hear just 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz.
Everything outside that range is constantly passing through you:
Ultraviolet and infrared light
Ultrasonic and infrasonic sound
Radio waves moving through walls
Cosmic rays showering Earth
And neutrinos — star-born particles — streaming through your body by the trillions every second
We navigate the world as if we see everything, when in truth we sense almost nothing, or very very little .
Technology widened the keyhole.
Infrared cameras show heat.
Ultrasonic sensors hear what we can’t.
Radio telescopes reveal galaxies invisible to the naked eye.
But even with all our tools, the greatest pieces of the cosmos — dark matter and dark energy — remain complete mysteries.
They hold the universe together, shape its expansion, and yet we cannot see or touch them.
It’s a humbling truth:
we don’t perceive reality in full.
We perceive a filtered version built for survival, not understanding.
The universe is larger, stranger, and more beautiful than anything our senses allow us to experience — and we’re only just beginning to uncover the rest.
Fun Fact:
Every second, about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body — but you’ll never feel a single one.
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Night sky
This is a photo of the recent comet by an amateur astronomer named Barb Barton. This is a timed shutter with a tracking telescope, and it was set for 59 minutes to get details of the comet.
The other lines are mostly satellite traces. Starlink, the GPS constellation, mapping, spy, weather, etc. Notice how they have affected this photo, which would have likely been a masterpiece without them, or at least a lot fewer of them.
Do you think that perhaps we have too much traffic orbiting our planet?
Is there an ongoing "traffic jam" already, at least for such activities like wide-field astronomy photos?
Do you think this is also a problem with professional instruments on remote mountain tops the world around?
The other lines are mostly satellite traces. Starlink, the GPS constellation, mapping, spy, weather, etc. Notice how they have affected this photo, which would have likely been a masterpiece without them, or at least a lot fewer of them.
Do you think that perhaps we have too much traffic orbiting our planet?
Is there an ongoing "traffic jam" already, at least for such activities like wide-field astronomy photos?
Do you think this is also a problem with professional instruments on remote mountain tops the world around?
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ai tells --- worse than emdashes!
Consciousness is one of the biggest mysteries of science, and new research shows anesthesia can erase the brain’s unique “fingerprint.”
Every person’s brain has a distinct pattern of activity, like a neural signature that defines thought, behavior, and awareness. Under anesthesia, these patterns vanish, leaving the brain in a uniform, disconnected state.
Using advanced imaging and EEG scans, scientists observed that anesthesia temporarily silences the brain’s communication networks.
1. "it's not this, it's that"
This is a rhetorical device where a surface-level concept is immediately replaced by a deeper one. It instantly creates a sense of insight, like we thought it was one thing, but actually, it’s another.
Once upon a time, this was an okay technique and it can still carry insight - but often the content doesn’t match the level of drama in the structure. Gradually, the punch of this device wears off.
2. truncated questions
A paragraph in the middle of the text opens with a truncated question (missing a verb): The best part? / The truth? / The catch?
It’s a common literary device - mimics spoken language, disrupts the rhythm, and catches a wandering eye.
But when it shows up in every second LinkedIn post, it mostly screams AI.
Every person’s brain has a distinct pattern of activity, like a neural signature that defines thought, behavior, and awareness. Under anesthesia, these patterns vanish, leaving the brain in a uniform, disconnected state.
Using advanced imaging and EEG scans, scientists observed that anesthesia temporarily silences the brain’s communication networks.
1. "it's not this, it's that"
This is a rhetorical device where a surface-level concept is immediately replaced by a deeper one. It instantly creates a sense of insight, like we thought it was one thing, but actually, it’s another.
Once upon a time, this was an okay technique and it can still carry insight - but often the content doesn’t match the level of drama in the structure. Gradually, the punch of this device wears off.
2. truncated questions
A paragraph in the middle of the text opens with a truncated question (missing a verb): The best part? / The truth? / The catch?
It’s a common literary device - mimics spoken language, disrupts the rhythm, and catches a wandering eye.
But when it shows up in every second LinkedIn post, it mostly screams AI.
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Raise your kid like royalty
The future King of England, Prince George, turned 12 in July.
And even though around 95% of kids in the UK have a smartphone by this age, his parents are still holding the line.
In a recent interview, Prince William explained: “None of our children have any phones, which we’re very strict about… keeping them busy with sports and being outdoors is really important.”
Your son may not have a royal title or live in a castle, but you can bestow upon him something even better: a real childhood.
And even though around 95% of kids in the UK have a smartphone by this age, his parents are still holding the line.
In a recent interview, Prince William explained: “None of our children have any phones, which we’re very strict about… keeping them busy with sports and being outdoors is really important.”
Your son may not have a royal title or live in a castle, but you can bestow upon him something even better: a real childhood.
express, not stress