Hello, you glorious human!

Welcome to your weekend of ravishing reads!

This time we're getting experimental with AI, by letting it tell Patrick Fagan what to do for a whole day, a dramatic reenactment of that time AI couldn't spell Strawberry, and Rory Sutherland's take on why it's getting too much press.

Don't forget our ever intriguing history lesson of what happened on this day, but most of all, don't forget to have yourself a marvellous weekend!

Big love,
Chris & the 42courses team

• What happens when you let ChatGPT make all of your decisions? Patrick Fagan did this, and ended up eating a LOT of pizza. Here's what went down.
   
• The Sourdough Effect: In a wonderfully whimsical diatribe, Rory Sutherland explains why he thinks AI is getting too much press, by way of discussing how sourdough dominates the bread market.
   
• 6 life-changing lessons from the biggest studies on happiness: A quick-fire, but potent list of tactics you probably haven't heard of before that can have a significant impact on your life. 
   
• How many Rs in the word "Strawberry"? This is a hilarious reenactment of Chat GPT trying to dig itself out of a hole it hallucinated itself into when asked how many Rs there are in Strawberry.
   
• You couldn't make this up: You don't write the way Dave Trott writes without getting away with murder a few times, and this story is about one of those times. You'll be laughing in disbelief at the end.

• 1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated. 🎓
   
• 1864 - Slavery is abolished in Maryland. ⚖️
   
• 1881 - David Houston patents roll film for cameras, paving the way for movie magic. 🎥
   
• 1890 - John Owen runs the first 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds, clocking in at 9.8 seconds, at Analostan Island, Washington, D.C. 🏃‍♂️
   
• 1939 - FDR and advisor Alexander Sachs meet to discuss Albert Einstein's letter warning of the potential for an atomic bomb. 💥
   
• 1967 - Yoko Ono's "Yoko Plus Me" art exhibition opens in London, with the "Me" being John Lennon. 🎨
   
• 1975 - "Saturday Night Live," created by Lorne Michaels, premieres on NBC with George Carlin as the host. 📺
   
• 1981 - Then-unknown musician Prince Rogers Nelson opens for The Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Coliseum. 🎸
   
• 1994 - The Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to John Harsanyi, Reinhard Selten, and John Nash (A beautiful Mind), for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games. 🏆