💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
A visit to a newsroom, lunch with a karate master, and I also had ChatGPT take the Swedish national university exam.
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A somewhat tumultuous week for me. First a nervous visit to the newsroom of Expressen. On Wednesday, a lot of changes were made to Warp News after a tough review.
At the same time, a completely new and very liberating work situation. I now really have the time to write.
Which, among other things, allowed me to test how ChatGPT would perform on the Swedish national university exam. That news has spread to some other news sites, including Omni, Breakit and Feber.
That's precisely the goal of the changes. To reach out with our content and thus our mission.
This week, I was invited to lunch by a Premium Supporter, Per Holmlöv.
I read about him in Professor K Anders Ericsson's book, "Peak":
"Another of my favorite correspondents is Per Holmlöv, a Swedish man who started taking karate lessons when he was sixty-nine years old."
Now he is over 80 years old, has a blue belt in karate, and has recently published the book "Jäklar anamma!" (a Swedish expression that roughly translates to "Come on!").
I briefly wrote about Per and the lunch in our Premium Supporter group on Facebook. Feel free to join if you're not already a member.
I had the privilege of talking to former golf pro, Jenny Hagman, on her podcast.
She starts off quite strongly: "This might be the most important episode I've recorded so far, regarding your mental health."
We talk about negative news and how it affects us.
What elite athletes do when they visualize success is a form of optimism.
The reason why it is optimists who create the future is that they visualize a positive future, which gives them the energy and determination to get there.
The discussion is in Swedish. Idrotts- och ledarskapspodden. Finns där poddar finns, till exempel på Spotify.
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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🚁 Stockholm testing drones in city environment
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🧬 "DNA passport" can reduce side effects from medicines by 30 percent
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