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Science & Tech·5 min read
After a year of running AI assistants across real production work, here is where they genuinely save hours, where they quietly cost you time, and how to tell the difference before you commit.
By Obaid ·
Money & Business·5 min read
How compounding actually works, why the first decade matters more than the next three, and the specific ways fees and inflation quietly undo it.
By Obaid ·
Lifestyle·5 min read
Most note systems collapse the first week you get genuinely busy. Here is a structure that holds up, why the popular methods fail, and how to migrate without losing anything.
By Obaid ·
Health & Wellness·5 min read
A look at the physiology of sleep stages, the environmental factors with real evidence behind them, and why most sleep trackers measure something other than what they claim.
By Obaid ·
Science & Tech·5 min read
A diagnostic order of operations for a sluggish machine — find the real bottleneck first, then apply the fix that matches it, instead of running random cleaners.
By Obaid ·
Science & Tech·5 min read
Retrieval-augmented generation in plain terms — what problem it solves, where real implementations break, and how to tell whether you need it at all.
By Obaid ·
History & Society·4 min read
Gutenberg's press did not simply spread knowledge. It triggered religious upheaval, a misinformation crisis, and a restructuring of authority that took 150 years to settle.
By Obaid ·
Nature & Environment·4 min read
The symbiosis that builds reefs, the narrow temperature margin that breaks it, and an honest account of which interventions have evidence behind them.
By Obaid ·