Hello you savvy savant!

This week, it’s all about behaviour. How we think, how we spend, how we design, and how AI is starting to make sense of it all — including images, finally!

So whether you're trying to trick your brain into being more productive or just understand why your investment habits are a bit... impulsive, we’ve got you covered 🤓

Let the curiosity commence.

Big love,
Chris & the 42courses team x 

• Design Obsessed: Why are designers always tweaking tiny pixels no one else sees? Our latest podcast is a short, sharp insight into the brilliant mind of JosePablo Dominguez. 
   
• The psychology of investing: Greg Davies explains why your brain might be your investment portfolio’s worst enemy — and how to fix it.
   
• Financial behaviour decoded: Merle van den Akker (aka one of the best behavioural finance voices out there) breaks down what really drives our spending. This is part one of a juicy Q&A.
   
• How to become more conscientious when you're not: Behaviour change is hard, personality change is harder, so how do you get things done when you're not naturally conscientious? 
   
• The new age of image generation in GPT and Sora: Words in images! Transparent backgrounds! Hand with the right number of fingers! AI image generation has grown up a LOT, find out what you can do with it.

• 1794 – Although officially inaugurated in August 1793, the Louvre first opens its doors to the general public on this day. 🖼️
   
• 1797 – Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents the first washing machine. 🧺
   
• 1866 – The world’s first ambulance (a horse-drawn carriage) begins operating. 🚑
   
• 1935 – The influential Nazi propaganda film, Triumph of the Will, premieres, showcasing Nuremberg rallies and directed by Leni Riefenstahl at Hitler’s request. 🎥⚠️
   
• 1949 – English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term "Big Bang" during a BBC broadcast—ironically while defending a competing theory. 🌌
   
• 1989 – French President François Mitterrand unveils I. M. Pei’s glass pyramid in front of The Louvre. 🏛️🔺
   
• 2017 – Britain launches its first new £1 coin in 30 years, featuring a secret anti-counterfeit security feature. 💷
   
• 2017 – The world’s largest dinosaur footprint (1.7m) is found in Kimberley, Western Australia—likely from a giant sauropod. 🦕
   
• 2022 – Will Smith Apologises to Chris Rock on Instagram after slapping him live on stage at the Oscars. 🎭📱