Heidi McCulloch

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BREAKING: Canada exported $14.6 million of military goods to Israel in 2025, according to data released today by Global Affairs Canada. readthemaple.com/canada-exporte…

@MattZeitlin Youth sports have been a godsend for my daughter, her dad, her siblings and the entire family unit. All play hockey, Dad coaches. It provides a common familial purpose and is a major bonding force.

i am now interested in reading a full blown defense of expensive youth sports. i feel like there's too much desire among readers-of-magazines types to see travel sports taken down a notch, but clearly they fill some need for some people

"In the age of AI, major in being human." -- David Brooks, The New York Times There's no better time that today to start building the skills that can't be duplicated by AI. Learn about the 8 habits that can make you a SuperCollaborator overnight --> amazon.ca/-/fr/Heidi-McC…

@shreyas Foolish to think High Agency manifests exactly the same in every individual. Nuance to the power of.

I’m a huge fan of High Agency. But 2 things I now understand about it: 1) Not everyone can develop High Agency—and High Agency people will find it hard to accept this 2) It has major professional upsides, but also creates chronic anxiety in life situations you can’t control

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

Getting Unstuck with Pema Chodron. What's the thought? What's the feeling? Acknowledge Shenpa (feeling hooked/ triggered). Reframe the thought (optional). Move on.

When the negotiation terms to get out of a war are unrelated to those that related to getting into the war.

Hey, by the way, to all the students heading into exam period. Writing a test and getting a good mark has practically NOTHING to do with building a professional career and being successful. Do your best and get good marks but don't be confused about this.

The world in 2026.

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command". -- Orwell

I can personally attest to experiencing TGH's superior standard of care.

Women’s rights are never permanently guaranteed. They are won through constant struggle, through courage, and through vigilance that must never weaken. On March 8, as on every other day of the year. A tribute to all the women who, every day, keep this fight alive. Those who commit themselves, who take action, who raise their voices when necessary, and who, through their courage and dedication, inspire present and future generations. Today, my thoughts are especially with the women living through the wars and conflicts affecting our world. As the first victims of violence, they are also, everywhere, essential actors in peace, resistance and reconstruction. While some seek to destroy, they rebuild. While some seek to subjugate, they stand firm. France stands by their side, tirelessly and without rest. I extend a message of solidarity and admiration to the women of Iran. Their courage commands respect and reminds the world that freedom can never be silenced. The fight for women’s rights is a universal one. It is the fight of both women and men, and it concerns us all. It will go on. For as long as equality is not a reality everywhere, France will be there to take action.

@owenjonesjourno @grok where and when is this?

Iran is being destroyed.

@CBCOlympics Brutal. Don’t celebrate it.

Tom Wilson lowers the BOOM on Dylan Larkin 😳

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We all ought to noodle this a lot longer. In interdependent systems (almost all) things often worsen not in spite of our best efforts but because of our best efforts — Senge, Fifth Discipline.

Those who gain formal power often infantilize the rest, denying their ability to make decisions or to think strategically. Teams become compliant but not brilliant. -- Janka Krings-Klebe

When education was rare and information moved slowly, it was cheaper to control than to empower. -- Janka Krings-Klebe

One of the best 2x2s I've seen in awhile: open.substack.com/pub/cutlefish/… @johncutlefish

BCG - while external business complexity has increased 6x since 1970, internal “complicatedness” has exploded 35x. The bigger & more complex organizations get, the more they divide work into smaller, specialized pieces. Creating the chaos they are trying to prevent. #WorkBetter