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#592 Your mom’s scrambled eggs

September 16, 2026September 10, 2026 Neil Pasricha

Everyone’s mom’s are a little bit different.

But your mom’s are the best.

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
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I'm in a 14-person Fantasy Football league.

We went to school 20 yrs ago and nobody lives in the same town and it's a fun way to keep in touch.

However!

Our trash talk has occasionally devolved into slop grenade lobbing this year!

Stop throwing AI-generated walls of texts

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Shane Parrish @shaneparrish ·
11 Sep

The decline of reading.

‘By the end of the twentieth century, a college graduate born after 1969 read less than someone born before 1950 with a basic level of education.

Indeed, nowadays many rich and highly educated people are much less well-read than many members of the

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
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Slop grenades!

I disagree with @tobi on a lot — *cough* island airport *cough* — but with him 100% on this one. Brilliant.

Sheer gads of AI barf-output are accelerating our once-helpful tendency to overthink into a cultural metastasis.

Shane Parrish @shaneparrish

Lazy work used to mean too little output.

Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else.

@tobi call it "slop grenades."

A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it).

Someone else

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
11h

Weird dieting hack I just discovered:

When your kids make those delicious chocolate chip cookies you always eat eight of and they ask if they can put in green food coloring this time definitely say yes so they look so horribly disgusting you eat none.

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