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January 10, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes
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Andreessen Horowitz publishes an interactive feature recommending AI applications
"The Happiness Lab", Laurie Santos' podcast about how to be happy
Singapore, USA, and New Zealand lead the ranking of world's most innovative countries, according to CTA
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Andreessen Horowitz publishes an interactive feature recommending AI applications
Different members of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and various digital world experts have analyzed hundreds of artificial intelligence applications across different fields throughout 2024 and have selected those they consider most valuable.
An interactive special has been published on the company's website where you can discover each expert's selections and their arguments, along with links to the corresponding websites.
Among the dozens of recommended applications are Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, Granola, Cursor, ElevenLabs, NotebookLM, and Remix, to name a few.
Link:
Apps Unwrapped – Andreessen Horowitz
"The Happiness Lab", Laurie Santos' podcast about how to be happy
When we launched the "On the Net Today" newsletter in April 2024, the first resource we recommended was "The Science of Well-Being", a free online course taught by Yale University professor and scientist Laurie Santos that had gathered more than 4.6 million students:
Today we bring to this newsletter a new recommendation featuring Laurie Santos: her podcast "The Happiness Lab", which has just launched its seventh season.
Santos says that "research shows that the start of the new year is a good time to start fresh. And in the spirit of a happier 2025, I'm pleased to share that a new season of my podcast, The Happiness Lab, has just launched."
In the coming months, Laurie Santos' podcast will focus on practical advice. "Throughout the new season, we'll offer you an essential series of practical guides that we believe will make your life much happier in 2025," the professor explained.
The first episode is already published and is titled "How to be Imperfect: 7 Lessons for Embracing Imperfectionism". In it, author Oliver Burkeman shares these seven tips with Laurie Santos:
Tip #1: You just gotta do things. Don’t get stuck in that perfectionist fantasy planning phase. Just dive in and get going.
Tip #2: Fight back against productivity debt. You don’t need to justify your existence by getting through some huge to-do list.
Tips #3: Remember that there’s a cost to information overload. Resist the urge to stockpile all the knowledge possible.
Tip #4: Reject the urge to “whole-ass” stuff. Shoot for 80% and remember the benefits of what Oliver calls scruffy hospitality.
Tip #5: Let the future be the future. There are lots of bridges we’ll cross when we get there.
Tip #6: Follow the reverse golden rule. A little self-compassion goes a long way.
Tip #7: Don’t bring a perfectionist attitude towards imperfectionism. Remember that baby steps are often the way to go.
To receive the new guides, you can sign up for Laurie Santos' newsletter.
Links:
Podcast "The Happiness Lab"
Episode "How to be Imperfect: 7 Lessons for Embracing Imperfectionism"
“The Science of Well-Being”, the most popular class in Yale University’s history. – On The Net Today
Singapore, USA, and New Zealand lead the ranking of world's most innovative countries, according to CTA
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), producer of the CES technology fair, held from January 7 to 10 in Las Vegas (United States), has published the fourth edition of its Global Innovation Scorecard which evaluates the innovation level of 74 countries, including all G-20 and the 27 European Union countries, among others.
This global scorecard analyzes a total of 56 indicators across 16 different categories with the aim of identifying "the countries that most encourage technological innovation, economic growth, and social progress, and the policies that other countries could emulate to deliver similar benefits to their citizens."
The ranking is led by Singapore, United States, and New Zealand, which occupy the top three positions. Spain is ranked at number 21, within a first group identified as "innovation champions."
These "innovation champions" are countries that have "a diverse and highly skilled workforce, fast broadband, a climate favorable to entrepreneurs, and openness to new technologies such as Web 3.0 technologies, autonomous vehicles, and blockchain."
The 25 countries that are part of this prominent group are the following (shown in order based on total points achieved):
Singapore 3,529
United States 3,410
New Zealand 3,352
Sweden 3,352
Switzerland 3,313
Canada 3,275
Norway 3,273
United Kingdom 3,235
Iceland 3,165
Estonia 3,156
Finland 3,136
Australia 3,097
Luxembourg 3,078
Netherlands 3,078
Denmark 3,077
Ireland 3,059
Japan 2,990
South Korea 2,980
France 2,961
Czech Republic 2,941
Spain 2,941
Israel 2,916
Germany 2,902
Portugal 2,803
Austria 2,765
The ranking is available in PDF format, through a complete data table and a map.
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