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You are taught to push back against problems. To fight difficulties, and to treat issues as enemies.

Pushing back is not sensible when you consider that what makes a block “a block” is your perception of it being a block.

You give it power, then you wrestle against the power you give it, then feel helpless against it. Which means, you feel helpless against yourself, when you have just demonstrated your own power. 🤔

#ChangeMakers #ProblemSolving

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Ars Technica: CMU research shows compression alone may unlock AI puzzle-solving abilities. “A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently discovered hints that the process of compressing information can solve complex reasoning tasks without pre-training on a large number of examples. Their system tackles some types of abstract pattern-matching tasks using only the puzzles […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/10/ars-technica-cmu-research-shows-compression-alone-may-unlock-ai-puzzle-solving-abilities/

If you’re frustrated by slow growth, poor retention, or inconsistent revenue, chances are your business is like a puzzle with a missing piece.

It’s not always about working harder. Sometimes, it’s about finding the right piece—the right system, strategy, or tool that changes everything.

What’s one challenge in your practice that feels like a missing piece? Let’s discuss it in the comments!

A quotation from Oppenheimer

However, it is my judgment in these things that when you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) American theoretical physicist, "Father of the Atomic Bomb" [Julius Robert Oppenheimer]
“In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” testimony transcript, US Atomic Energy Commission, Personnel Security Board (1954-04-13)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/oppenheimer-j-robert…