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One Useful Thing

Ethan Mollick on practical, grounded uses of AI

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Signal score
10 vs 10
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What one page load of oneusefulthing.org brought in

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Third-party domains
5
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Tranco rank
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How it scores

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Ad restraint
10

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Design
6

Judged

Reach
6

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Editorial
8

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Signal-to-noise
8

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Access
9

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Cadence
7

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Independence
9

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