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🍏 Apple’s Product Flood: Too Much, Too Fast?
Apple just launched a wave of new products—MacBooks, iPads, iPhones—so fast that even Apple fans are overwhelmed.
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🤖 Foxconn Drops Its Own AI Model
Foxconn—aka the company that makes your iPhone—just launched its own AI language model. Big tech should be watching.
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🔥 Burnout is Costing Companies Millions
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💡 "Your 38 open tabs aren’t a research strategy. Close the ones you haven’t touched in a week—your brain will thank you."

For years, companies have pushed "efficiency"—but let’s be real. That’s just code for “do more with less.”

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💻 Tech = Productivity Boost? Not Always.
Computers were supposed to help, but now we spend more time managing work than actually doing it.

📅 Not Everything Needs to Get Done.
Some tasks shouldn’t exist at all. If you’ve ever been stuck in a “this could’ve been an email” meeting, you already know.

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