Personality testing is a booming business; inevitably, there’s a business to build on top of the results. Classifying things, or in this case, people is a step in a series that ultimately leads to the creation of personalized products, services, supplements, etc., based on determined personality.
I’ll cop to taking several of them over the years. I find that Enneagram feels the most accurate, though not without some things that simply are not accurate.
Sorry, wut?!
I love the idea of the Punkt. MC02. Will be interesting to see what people have to say about it.
Quite a statement from Apple about Spotify. I can’t recall ever seeing something quite like this. I’m sure Daniel will post a video on LinkedIn any minute.
Between January 2016 and December 2022, the monthly antidepressant dispensing rate increased 66.3%, from 2575.9 to 4284.8. Before March 2020, this rate increased by 17.0 per month (95% confidence interval: 15.2 to 18.8). The COVID-19 outbreak was not associated with a level change but was associated with a slope increase of 10.8 per month (95% confidence interval: 4.9 to 16.7). The monthly antidepressant dispensing rate increased 63.5% faster from March 2020 onwards compared with beforehand. In subgroup analyses, this rate increased 129.6% and 56.5% faster from March 2020 onwards compared with beforehand among females aged 12 to 17 years and 18 to 25 years, respectively. In contrast, the outbreak was associated with a level decrease among males aged 12 to 17 years and was not associated with a level or slope change among males aged 18 to 25 years.
From Antidepressant Dispensing to US Adolescents and Young Adults: 2016–2022 via Marginal Revolution
I had to read this a few times before it registered. This is some dark stuff, especially as the father of a daughter. What are we doing?
Anthropic announced Claude 3 today. Depending on who you ask and what the prompt deals with, it seems like this is about as close as anyone has gotten to GPT-4 performance. We live in ever-exciting times.
RIP Richard Lewis. One of the greats. I guess Larry has an answer now.
A day will never pass when I don’t type ⌘-K in Slack to hyperlink a word instead of ⌘-V. Every time I do it, I curse out loud. I cannot think of another equivalent in my life.
Kottke posted about the new Robert Putnum documentary, Join or Die, which looks absolutely fascinating.
