冒险。随着夏天的临近，我一直在轮换中添加一些季节性音乐。

JL Lawson。我喜欢将图腾放在口袋里。我的最爱之一是JL Lawson的决策者。我实际上没有使用它来做出决定。

Change: What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation by Jeffrey A. Kottler. I read this book while researching my Dying Breed article on the effectiveness of therapy. The big takeaway? There’s no single magic bullet for personal transformation. Kottler examines various approaches to behavior change and finds that success often depends on a mix of factors rather than one specific technique. What works seems highly individualized. Despite all our psychological research and self-help wisdom, we’re still remarkably uncertain about what truly causes lasting behavior change. It’s a humbling read that challenges our cultural obsession with finding the “one right way” to fix ourselves.

改变：真正导致杰弗里·A·科特勒（Jeffrey A. Kottler）持久的个人转变的原因。我在研究我的垂死品种文章时读了这本书，内容涉及治疗的有效性。大外卖？没有一个魔术子弹可以进行个人转型。科特勒研究了各种行为改变的方法，发现成功通常取决于因素的组合，而不是一种特定的技术。什么作用似乎是个性化的。尽管我们所有的心理研究和自助智慧，但我们仍然对真正导致持久行为改变的是什么都非常不确定。这是一本令人沮丧的读物，它挑战了我们的文化痴迷，以找到“正确的方式”来修复自己。

The Ventures. With summer approaching, I’ve been adding some seasonal music into my rotation. Lately, that’s meant diving back into surf music from the 1960s. I had a serious surf music phase back in high school. I owned this two-CD compilation that I bought from Walmart got heavy play in my room. My favorite band from that era, by far, is The Ventures. Their reverb-heavy instrumental hits like “Walk, Don’t Run” and “Pipeline”make you feel like you’re riding a wave off some sunny coast. Despite never having stood on a surfboard in my life, their music continues to evoke a certain carefree feeling that perfectly accompanies the longer days and warmer temperatures.

冒险。随着夏天的临近，我一直在轮换中添加一些季节性音乐。最近，这意味着从1960年代开始回到冲浪音乐中。我在高中时有一个严重的冲浪音乐阶段。我拥有我从沃尔玛购买的这两个CD汇编，在我的房间里很重。到目前为止，我最喜欢的乐队是冒险。他们重音的乐器热门歌曲，例如“ Walk，Do not Run”和“ Pipeline”，使您感到自己像是在阳光明媚的海岸上挥舞着浪潮。尽管我一生中从未站在冲浪板上，但他们的音乐继续唤起一种无忧无虑的感觉，这些感觉完全伴随着较长的日子和温暖的温度。

Why Even Try If You Have A.I.? Joshua Rothman’s New Yorker piece introduces a provocative idea: As A.I. becomes more capable, are we in danger of becoming mentally flabby? Just as we can become physically weak by always taking the easy route, we might become mentally soft by outsourcing our thinking to LLMs. The solution? We may soon need to carve out mental workouts for ourselves free of A.I. to keep our minds and character sharp.

如果您有AI，为什么还要尝试？约书亚·罗斯曼（Joshua Rothman）的《纽约人》（New Yorker）介绍了一个挑衅的想法：随着人工智能变得越来越有能力，我们是否有智力疲倦的危险？正如我们始终采取轻松的路线会在身体上变得虚弱一样，我们可能会通过将思想外包给LLM来在精神上变得柔软。解决方案？我们可能很快需要为自己摆脱AI的精神锻炼，以保持我们的思想和性格敏锐。

J.L. Lawson Decision Maker Coin. I like to keep totems in my pockets. One of my favorites is the Decision Maker from J.L. Lawson. I don’t actually use it to make decisions. It’s more of a reminder that sometimes the decisions are so close, any option is a good option. You just have to make a decision. Also, it looks pretty dang cool. I like to give these away as gifts.

JL Lawson决策者硬币。我喜欢将图腾放在口袋里。我的最爱之一是JL Lawson的决策者。我实际上没有使用它来做出决定。这更多的是提醒人们，有时决策是如此近，任何选择都是一个不错的选择。您只需要做出决定。另外，看起来很酷。我喜欢把这些作为礼物。

On our Dying Breed newsletter, we published Sunday Firesides: You Might Be Living in a Golden Age Right Now and The Virtues of Re-Reading Books.

在我们垂死的品种通讯上，我们发布了周日FireSides：您可能现在生活在黄金时代，以及重新阅读书籍的优点。

Quote of the Week

一周的报价

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

娱乐不是民主的次要关注。这是一个主要问题，因为一个人自己做的娱乐方式决定了他们成为的人类和建立的社会。

—Harry A. Overstreetoutput: Change: What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation by Jeffrey A. Kottler. I read this book while researching my Dying Breed article on the effectiveness of therapy. The big takeaway? There’s no single magic bullet for personal transformation. Kottler examines various approaches to behavior change and finds that success often depends on a mix of factors rather than one specific technique. What works seems highly individualized. Despite all our psychological research and self-help wisdom, we’re still remarkably uncertain about what truly causes lasting behavior change. It’s a humbling read that challenges our cultural obsession with finding the “one right way” to fix ourselves.

- Harry A. Overstreetoutput：更改：杰弗里·A·科特勒（Jeffrey A. Kottler）真正导致了持久的个人转型。我在研究我的垂死品种文章时读了这本书，内容涉及治疗的有效性。大外卖？没有一个魔术子弹可以进行个人转型。科特勒研究了各种行为改变的方法，发现成功通常取决于因素的组合，而不是一种特定的技术。什么作用似乎是个性化的。尽管我们所有的心理研究和自助智慧，但我们仍然对真正导致持久行为改变的是什么都非常不确定。这是一本令人沮丧的读物，它挑战了我们的文化痴迷，以找到“正确的方式”来修复自己。

The Ventures. With summer approaching, I’ve been adding some seasonal music into my rotation. Lately, that’s meant diving back into surf music from the 1960s. I had a serious surf music phase back in high school. I owned this two-CD compilation that I bought from Walmart got heavy play in my room. My favorite band from that era, by far, is The Ventures. Their reverb-heavy instrumental hits like “Walk, Don’t Run” and “Pipeline”make you feel like you’re riding a wave off some sunny coast. Despite never having stood on a surfboard in my life, their music continues to evoke a certain carefree feeling that perfectly accompanies the longer days and warmer temperatures.

冒险。随着夏天的临近，我一直在轮换中添加一些季节性音乐。最近，这意味着从1960年代开始回到冲浪音乐中。我在高中时有一个严重的冲浪音乐阶段。我拥有我从沃尔玛购买的这两个CD汇编，在我的房间里很重。到目前为止，我最喜欢的乐队是冒险。他们重音的乐器热门歌曲，例如“ Walk，Do not Run”和“ Pipeline”，使您感到自己像是在阳光明媚的海岸上挥舞着浪潮。尽管我一生中从未站在冲浪板上，但他们的音乐继续唤起一种无忧无虑的感觉，这些感觉完全伴随着较长的日子和温暖的温度。

Why Even Try If You Have A.I.? Joshua Rothman’s New Yorker piece introduces a provocative idea: As A.I. becomes more capable, are we in danger of becoming mentally flabby? Just as we can become physically weak by always taking the easy route, we might become mentally soft by outsourcing our thinking to LLMs. The solution? We may soon need to carve out mental workouts for ourselves free of A.I. to keep our minds and character sharp.

如果您有AI，为什么还要尝试？约书亚·罗斯曼（Joshua Rothman）的《纽约人》（New Yorker）介绍了一个挑衅的想法：随着人工智能变得越来越有能力，我们是否有智力疲倦的危险？正如我们始终采取轻松的路线会在身体上变得虚弱一样，我们可能会通过将思想外包给LLM来在精神上变得柔软。解决方案？我们可能很快需要为自己摆脱AI的精神锻炼，以保持我们的思想和性格敏锐。

J.L. Lawson Decision Maker Coin. I like to keep totems in my pockets. One of my favorites is the Decision Maker from J.L. Lawson. I don’t actually use it to make decisions. It’s more of a reminder that sometimes the decisions are so close, any option is a good option. You just have to make a decision. Also, it looks pretty dang cool. I like to give these

JL Lawson决策者硬币。我喜欢将图腾放在口袋里。我的最爱之一是JL Lawson的决策者。我实际上没有使用它来做出决定。这更多的是提醒人们，有时决策是如此近，任何选择都是一个不错的选择。您只需要做出决定。另外，看起来很酷。我喜欢给这些