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Super Results from Everyday People

Three Ways AI Unleashes New Levels of Productivity

If you want to build a chair from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Not so easy, right? We paraphrased this idea from Carl Sagan, who, in his famous quotation, actually referred to baking an apple pie, not building a chair, but his thinking still holds. Sagan simply meant that no seemingly straightforward task would be possible without the laws of nature that underpin it. Put another way, there is a universe of physics and math inside every apple pie and inside every chair. Luckily for bakers and designers alike, their creative process assumes that most of the useful universe is already figured out. The tough parts—the alchemical combination of ...

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