12 Simple Sustainable Productivity Habits That Actually Work
Building sustainable productivity habits is one of the smartest investments you can make in your career, well-being, and long-term happiness.
Building sustainable productivity habits is one of the smartest investments you can make in your career, well-being, and long-term happiness. We live in a culture that often glorifies hustle, all-nighters, and squeezing every last drop of energy out of our days, but the truth is that this approach simply does not work over time.
By LifeDev, LifeDev
People burn out, lose motivation, and eventually accomplish less than those who pace themselves wisely. The good news is that there are simple, science-backed strategies that allow you to be consistently productive without sacrificing your physical or mental health.
In this article, we will walk through twelve habits that genuinely make a difference. These are not gimmicks or trendy productivity hacks that fade in a week. They are practices that successful, balanced people use to maintain steady output year after year, and they can be adapted to any lifestyle or profession.
David Friedman: Eugenics and Evolution
Does the Welfare State Make It Easier for the Undesirable to Survive?
Etienne Note: If you are interested in the history of Eugenics, then see my article: Solving Covid - The Covid 19 Eugenics, Vaccine/Drug Scam Timeline
By David Friedman, David Friedman’s Substack
Eugenics and Evolution
A claim I have seen in discussions of eugenics is that modern institutions, in particular those of the welfare state, prevent evolution from working, make it easier for the unfit to survive and reproduce, and that humans should intervene. There is a legitimate point in that claim but putting it in terms of fitness is misleading; in the evolutionary context fitness is defined by the ability to get copies of your genes into future generations. The complaint is not that a welfare state lets the unfit survive and so makes the population less fit but that the characteristics that lead to fitness in a welfare state are by other criteria less desirable, lead to less economic growth, less scientific progress, a population less able to defend itself against aggression, less of something else the person making the argument views as more important than evolutionary fitness. Sometimes the implicit background to the argument is the worry that at some point in the future civilization will collapse on a population no longer able to deal with that environment.
AI Data Centers: The Real Reason They’re Going Up Everywhere
Who’s paying for them. Why it’s happening this fast. What the buildout is actually for. Why you should care.
By The Golden Order, The Golden Order
AI Data Centers: The Real Reason They’re Going Up Everywhere Who’s paying for them. Why it’s happening this fast. What the buildout is for. Why you should care.
I live in Montana but I am from Pennsylvania so I follow a Facebook page called I live In Pa. I kept seeing AI data centers on this channel split-screened against the farmland and covered bridges they’re replacing. Larry Fink’s picture and shareholder letter, where he said the quiet part out loud about how they get paid for. So I sat down and pulled the threads.
Merck Ignored Gardasil Safety Warnings From Its Own Trial Investigator, Court Documents Reveal
A Danish physician who led Merck-sponsored Gardasil clinical trials concluded the HPV vaccine was the probable cause of POTS
By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., The Defender
A Danish physician who led Merck-sponsored Gardasil clinical trials and later ran a government clinic for injured patients concluded the HPV vaccine was the probable cause of POTS and chronic fatigue-like conditions in some recipients. In a report submitted as evidence in a lawsuit against Merck, Dr. Jesper Mehlsen said Merck ignored the safety warnings.
Merck rejected adverse event reports from a clinician working under one of the drugmaker’s own Gardasil trial investigators — and later dismissed the investigator’s analysis linking the HPV vaccine to rare autoimmune and autonomic conditions in some patients, according to a recently released expert report.
US Finally Capitulates with ‘Memorandum’ of Surrender
Etienne Note: Was the US forced into a war by the Mossad / Epstein “Brownstone Operation” that installed a compromised President to do the bidding of Israel? Did the Iranians play along with a war where both sides pulled their punches to crank the oil price through the roof to enrich certain companies (and “governments”) over others while waging economic warfare against the tax slaves? Did the “war” provide cover for the Israelis to commit war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon? Are American tax slaves about to pay more for the reconstruction of Iran after paying more at the pump?
By Simplicius, Simplicius
The US has finally capitulated in its disastrously failed war against Iran, reportedly drafting a memorandum of understanding which is highly favorable to the Islamic Republic, and gains as concession nothing more than the promise that “Iran will not obtain nuclear weapons”—a position Iran had already long held.
The most explosive detail is the alleged $300 billion “reconstruction fund” that Iran will be entitled to once the deal is sealed.
Trump has downplayed or denied this point, with everyone seemingly perplexed as to what this massive sum entails, exactly. In the above article, Reuters writes the following:
Trump’s Family Crypto Firm Is Expected to Get Federal Banking Privileges
Trump-appointed bank regulators’ crypto-friendly approach is likely to extend to World Liberty Financial, despite ethics concerns.
Etienne Note: This article also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime’s control of the “Government,” Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_Scams
By Jeff Stein, NOTUS
President Donald Trump’s family crypto business is expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank — a decision that would give U.S. companies a new route to steer money to the president.
Goldman Sach’s List of Top 20 College Majors Most (and Least!) Exposed to AI Job Disruptions
Goldman analysts led by Pierfrancesco Mei told clients that early signals are emerging, showing how college students are adapting to AI-driven labor market disruption.
By Tyler Durden — ZeroHedge
The rapid adoption of AI across corporate America is stoking anxiety among recent and upcoming college graduates, many of whom fear that the entry-level white-collar labor market is shrinking just as they prepare to enter the workforce.
Goldman analysts led by Pierfrancesco Mei told clients that early signals are emerging, showing how college students are adapting to AI-driven labor market disruption. Students are shifting away from majors tied to high automation risk and weak job growth, and toward fields where AI and automation are less likely to have an impact.
Chinese lab Z AI released GLM-5.2 - a free open model going toe-to-toe with GPT 5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8.
Giving away top-tier AI for free is a flex that lowkey terrifies every paid model on Earth.
By Z.ai, Z.ai
We’re introducing GLM-5.2, our latest flagship model for long-horizon tasks. It marks a substantial leap in long-horizon task capability over its predecessor GLM-5.1 and, for the first time, delivers that capability on a solid 1M-token context. GLM-5.2’s new capabilities include:
Solid 1M Context: A solid 1M-token context that stably sustains long-horizon work
Advanced Coding with Flexible Effort: Stronger coding capabilities with multiple thinking effort levels to balance performance and latency
Improved Architecture: We propose IndexShare, which reuses the same indexer across every four sparse attention layers, reducing per-token FLOPs by 2.9× at a 1M context length. We also improve GLM-5.2’s MTP layer for speculative decoding, increasing the acceptance length by up to 20%
Pure Open: An MIT open-source license — no regional limits, technical access without borders
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