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  • Favicon The Intense Gaze of an Endangered Realm - piano & calligraphy performance - YouTube Added: Jan 6, 2026

    The Intense Gaze of an Endangered Realm - piano & calligraphy performance

    Site: YouTube

    I’m super excited and proud to present my piece - ’The Intense Gaze of an Endangered Realm’!It is a one-of-a-kind, hand-calligraphed piano score with the app...

    The Intense Gaze of an Endangered Realm - piano & calligraphy performance - YouTube

  • Favicon Flamingo: a tale in six chapters for the piano (original composition by Noam Oxman) - YouTube Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Flamingo: a tale in six chapters for the piano (original composition by Noam Oxman)

    Site: YouTube

    Earlier this year, around May, I created a minimalist flamingo figure drawn in musical notation as a tribute to World Flamingo Day. After initially laying do...

    Flamingo: a tale in six chapters for the piano (original composition by Noam Oxman) - YouTube

  • Favicon Trump Deploys 2000 Feds To MN Over FRAUD, Democrat ADMITS Somali Daycare Fraud IS REAL | Timcast IRL - YouTube Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Trump Deploys 2000 Feds To MN Over FRAUD, Democrat ADMITS Somali Daycare Fraud IS REAL | Timcast IRL

    Site: YouTube

    Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using code TIM at http://joincrowdhealth.com - CrowdHealth is not insurance. Opt ou...

    Trump Deploys 2000 Feds To MN Over FRAUD, Democrat ADMITS Somali Daycare Fraud IS REAL  Timcast IRL - YouTube

  • Favicon NASA's Curiosity rover sends stunning new panorama from high on Mars' Mount Sharp | Space Added: Jan 6, 2026

    NASA's Curiosity rover sends stunning new panorama from high on Mars' Mount Sharp

    Site: Space

    The image was captured in November 2025, showing how lighting changes throughout the day on Mars.

    NASA's Curiosity rover sends stunning new panorama from high on Mars' Mount Sharp  Space

  • Favicon NASA Hubble Helps Detect 'Wake' of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star - NASA Science Added: Jan 6, 2026

    NASA Hubble Helps Detect 'Wake' of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star - NASA Science

    Site: NASA Science

    New Hubble and ground-based observations allowed astronomers to track the influence of a recently discovered companion star around Betelgeuse.

    NASA Hubble Helps Detect 'Wake' of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star - NASA Science

  • Favicon Tim Walz’s daughter, Hope, speaks out after he drops out of Minnesota governor’s race amid alleged billion-dollar Somali fraud scandal | New York Post Added: Jan 6, 2026

    **Tim Walz’s firebrand daughter, Hope, admits there is ‘enough truth’ to Minnesota fraud scandal — as she opens up about her dad’s decision to drop out of gov’s race **

    Site: New York Post

    “My dad would say, part of the decision he decided to step away from the race was to kind of get that target off of Minnesota.”

    Tim Walz’s daughter, Hope, speaks out after he drops out of Minnesota governor’s race amid alleged billion-dollar Somali fraud scandal  New York Post

  • Favicon Mom of Zohran Mamdani aide who said owning a home fuels 'white supremacy' has $1.6M house in Tennessee | New York Post Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Mom of Zohran Mamdani aide who said owning a home fuels ‘white supremacy’ has $1.6M house in Tennessee

    Site: New York Post

    Office of Tenant Protection Director Cea Weaver’s mom, Celia Applegate, teaches German studies at Vanderbilt University and owns a pricey classic Craftsman home just south of the main strip in Nash


    Mom of Zohran Mamdani aide who said owning a home fuels 'white supremacy' has $1.6M house in Tennessee  New York Post

  • Favicon Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 9 in G-Flat Major "Butterfly Wings" - YouTube Music Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 9 in G-Flat Major "Butterfly Wings" - YouTube Music

    Site: YouTube Music

    Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 9 in G-Flat Major "Butterfly Wings" · Maurizio Pollini · FrĂ©dĂ©ric Chopin "Ametr...

    Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 9 in G-Flat Major "Butterfly Wings" - YouTube Music

  • Favicon ÙˆŰŹŰč Ű§Ù„Ű”Ù…ŰȘ - YouTube Music Added: Jan 6, 2026

    ÙˆŰŹŰč Ű§Ù„Ű”Ù…ŰȘ - YouTube Music

    Site: YouTube Music

    Provided to YouTube by ONErpm ÙˆŰŹŰč Ű§Ù„Ű”Ù…ŰȘ · Mona Slowly ÙˆŰŹŰč Ű§Ù„Ű”Ù…ŰȘ ℗ PLP Music Group Released on: 2026-01-02 Composer Lyricist: Mona Slowly Assistant Produ...

    ÙˆŰŹŰč Ű§Ù„Ű”Ù…ŰȘ - YouTube Music

  • Favicon C U Soon - YouTube Music Added: Jan 6, 2026

    C U Soon - YouTube Music

    Site: YouTube Music

    Provided to YouTube by Virgin Music Group C U Soon · h hunt Playing Piano for Dad ℗ 2016 tasty morsels Released on: 2016-05-20 Writer: h hunt Auto-gene...

    C U Soon - YouTube Music

  • Favicon Looks like an octopus - sounds like an octopus 🐙 #calligraphy #musicscore #harp #underwaterworld - YouTube Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Looks like an octopus - sounds like an octopus 🐙 #calligraphy #musicscore #harp #underwaterworld

    Site: YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

    Looks like an octopus - sounds like an octopus 🐙 calligraphy musicscore harp underwaterworld - YouTube

  • Favicon Kohberger Family Whitewashing, Maduro Dancing, and Symphony DEI, w/ Greenwald, Lowry, & Clarinetist - YouTube Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Debating Trump's Maduro Approach, Mamdani's Extreme Tenant Pick's Views, with Greenwald and Lowry

    Site: YouTube

    Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing the New York Times complete puff piece about the family of Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger, their complete whitewash...

    Kohberger Family Whitewashing, Maduro Dancing, and Symphony DEI, w/ Greenwald, Lowry, & Clarinetist - YouTube

  • Favicon A Look into the Mind of the Mamdani Marxist | National Review Added: Jan 6, 2026

    A Look into the Mind of the Mamdani Marxist | National Review

    A Look into the Mind of the Mamdani Marxist  National Review

  • Exclusive | Rubio Tells Lawmakers Trump Aims to Buy Greenland, Downplays Military Action - WSJ Added: Jan 6, 2026

  • Favicon A natural evolution of cruelty | Science | EL PAÍS English Added: Jan 6, 2026

    A natural evolution of cruelty

    Site: EL PAÍS English

    It’s not always the best-adapted animal that survives. Sometimes, it’s the one that exploits its fellow creatures

    The theory of evolution — developed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace — familiarized us with concepts that are occasionally misunderstood, such as the survival of the fittest (not the strongest), competition between species, or selection pressure. These ideas, applied self-servingly to human society, led to concepts such as social Darwinism. Developed by Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton, this gave rise to false ideas, such as the presumed superiority of certain races, or to terrible realities, such as the eugenics laws that were applied in many countries, not just in Nazi Germany. Richard Dawkins and his theory of the so-called “selfish gene” didn’t paint a better picture when he stated that what matters in evolution isn’t the survival of the individual or the species itself, but rather the persistence of its genetic material contained within DNA. Thanks to ecology and the work of biologists such as Lynn Margulis, we know that relationships in an ecosystem are much more complex than Darwin and Wallace described them to be. Sometimes, the species that survive aren’t those that compete best, but those that collaborate best. Symbiotic relationships — where two different species benefit from each other — are very common and can determine the survival of a species. Furthermore, we now know that these relationships have played a decisive role in evolution. For example, all of our cells contain an organelle called mitochondria, which was originally an independent bacterium that established a symbiotic relationship with a cell millions of years ago. If we can eat food today, it’s thanks to the symbiosis between bacteria and fungi in the roots of many plants, which provide nitrogen or phosphate to the plants. And plants, in turn, provide sugar to microorganisms. Therefore, on occasion, evolution also has a friendly side: it can tell us great stories of cooperation between species. The fact that the situation is much more complex than initially thought — and that there’s more to it than just survival of the fittest — doesn’t mean that cruelty (by human standards) ceases to exist. Parasitic relationships — where one organism benefits at the expense of another, causing harm or even death — are very common. And sometimes, they can just be downright cruel... Among birds, there are so-called “brood parasites” who completely ignore their young. Through various tricks, they get other species to care for them. This behavior appears to offer an evolutionary advantage, as it has emerged independently in seven different lineages of unrelated birds. Each species or lineage uses different strategies to invade other birds’ nests. Of all of them, the case of the indicator bird — popularly known as “the honeyguide” — is particularly gruesome. Its preferred victim is the little bee-eater. When a female honeyguide discovers a nest, she incubates her egg for a day, so as to ensure that it hatches before the bee-eater’s. Then, she places her egg next to the eggs that belong to her victim. Once hatched, the honeyguide waits for its chick’s foster siblings to hatch and — using its long, thin beak — begins to poke and bite them one by one, until they bleed to death
 a process that can take up to seven hours. This ensures the honeyguide chick’s status as an only child: it will get all the resources that its foster parents can offer. Cuckoos — medium-sized, slender birds — use another strategy. Once they hatch, they push the eggs containing their foster siblings (which haven’t yet finished the incubation period) out of the nest. At least this way of dying is quicker than bleeding to death. In other lineages of parasitic birds, we find mothers who look like they’re straight out of a horror movie. But just because a bird is parasitic doesn’t mean it completely ignores its chicks. For instance, the female cowbird destroys the eggs in a nest before laying her own. Afterwards, she may hang around. If the parasitized parents discover the deception and expel the other’s egg, the cowbird mother will continue destroying all her victims’ eggs until they accept hers. Nature isn’t all about competition and survival of the fittest. And yet, there are birds that haven’t caught on and continue to behave like schoolyard bullies. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get more English-language news coverage from EL PAÍS USA Edition

    A natural evolution of cruelty  Science  EL PAÍS English

  • Favicon Collectivism and Its 50,000 Empty Apartments | National Review Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Collectivism and Its 50,000 Empty Apartments | National Review

    Site: National Review

    Many freedom lovers want to give a history lesson to the new mayor of New York City about the 20th century’s horror of collectivist failures around the globe.

    Collectivism and Its 50,000 Empty Apartments  National Review

  • Favicon Don’t Annex Greenland | National Review Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Don’t Annex Greenland | National Review

    Don’t Annex Greenland  National Review

  • Favicon Shelled amoeba crawls like an octopus, shifting tactics on the go Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Shelled amoeba crawls like an octopus, shifting tactics on the go

    An international team of researchers led by Hokkaido University has characterized the unique mechanics that enable Arcella, a shelled, single-celled amoeba, to move skillfully across different surfaces.

    Shelled amoeba crawls like an octopus, shifting tactics on the go

  • Favicon Linguist explains simple reason Boomers use ellipses in texts all the time - Upworthy Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Harvard linguist explains perfectly logical reason Boomers insist on using ellipses in texts

    Site: Upworthy

    ​Once you understand this, texting with your mom will get a lot easier.

    Linguist explains simple reason Boomers use ellipses in texts all the time - Upworthy

  • Favicon Scott Adams, Death, and Faith: Quiet Now, and Pray for the Man Behind Dilbert | National Review Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Quiet, Now, and Pray for the Man Behind Dilbert | National Review

    Site: National Review

    Scott Adams has been publicly grappling with death and faith.

    Scott Adams, Death, and Faith: Quiet Now, and Pray for the Man Behind Dilbert  National Review

  • Favicon Five Years After January 6, Democrats and Trump Supporters Hold Contrasting Vigils / X Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Five Years After January 6, Democrats and Trump Supporters Hold Contrasting Vigils / X

  • MarĂ­a Corina Machado wants to give Nobel Prize to Donald Trump Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Machado says she ‘certainly’ wants to give Nobel to Trump

    Site: The Hill

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wants to give her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump. “I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe — the Venezu


    Venezuelan opposition leader MarĂ­a Corina Machado wants to give her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump. “I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe — the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, want to give it to him and share it with him,” Machado told host Sean Hannity on Fox News’s “Hannity.” Machado has backed Trump’s aggressive posture toward the Maduro regime and dedicated her Nobel Prize to the people of Venezuela and the president. Just more than three days since the U.S. captured and arrested Venezuelan President NicolĂĄs Maduro, the long-term future of the South American nation is unclear. While Venezuela’s high court has named Vice President Delcy RodrĂ­guez as interim leader, Trump has said the U.S. will run the country until an orderly transition can occur.  “We don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years,” the president said at a press conference Saturday. Trump also told reporters that Machado lacks the support or respect to govern Venezuela and was not consulted on the operation beforehand.  The former National Assembly member won the opposition primary two years ago, but Maduro barred her from running against him in the general election, and she backed Edmundo GonzĂĄlez. While Maduro claimed victory in the July 2024 election, international observers dismissed the government’s election data as statistically improbable. Machado then went into hiding in her own country for more than a year, before reappearing last month in Oslo, Norway, where her daughter accepted her prize on her behalf.   Now, though, she said she plans to return to Venezuela as soon as she can.  “I’m planning to go back to Venezuela as soon as possible,” she told Hannity. “As I’ve always said, Sean, every day, I make a decision [about] where I am more useful for our cause.”

    MarĂ­a Corina Machado wants to give Nobel Prize to Donald Trump

  • Favicon Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick | Hackaday Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick

    Site: Hackaday

    I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, at least, giving you fingerti


    Linux Fu: Yet Another Shell Script Trick  Hackaday

  • Favicon Inside Congress Live Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Thune outlines 3 pieces of possible health care deal

    Site: POLITICO

    He was detailing what it would take for a proposal to be able to pass the Senate.

    Majority Leader John Thune laid out Tuesday the three components any bipartisan health deal would have to address in order for it to pass the Senate. That includes instituting minimum premium payments and other new restrictions, providing “a bridge to HSAs” including an expansion of the health savings accounts and dealing with the “Hyde issue” — language that limits federal funding for abortions. All three of the ideas are Republican priorities. “Those are kind of the ‘big three’ when it comes to something that could get through the Senate,” Thune told reporters of what it would take to land a "healthy majority” in support of any health care deal. "We want to ensure that if we do anything it's done in a way that reforms these programs and ... ensures that those dollars aren't being used to go against the practice that's been in place for the last 50 years around here when it comes to taxpayer dollars being used to finance abortions and that it also has this movement in the future toward HSAs," he continued. A bipartisan group of senators is currently negotiating a possible agreement that would merge a two-year extension of the lapsed Affordable Care Act credits with new minimum premium payments and income restrictions, alongside broader cost-sharing reductions that would be phased in during the second year. The lapse of the beefed-up ACA subsidies reset the tax credits to their original 2010 Obamacare levels. The lawmakers met Monday night and they said they are making progress — but they don't yet have a deal. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), one of the key negotiators, updated Thune Tuesday morning. Thune also met earlier Tuesday with Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Senate Health Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who co-led the GOP proposal to expand health savings accounts. Cassidy said Tuesday he continued to work on the health savings accounts component, adding, “We’re gonna need the White House support to get something done.” Cheyenne Haslett contributed to this report.

    Inside Congress Live

  • Favicon Scientists Think They Know How Humans Could Recover Lost Vision Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Scientists Think They’ve Discovered How Humans Could Recover Lost Vision

    Site: Popular Mechanics

    Mammals aren’t known for the ocular regenerative powers, but a new study shows that nature has a few tricks up its sleeve.

    Scientists Think They Know How Humans Could Recover Lost Vision

  • Favicon Bill Maher, Tim Allen criticize DEI practices | New York Post Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Bill Maher, Tim Allen slam woke DEI practices in comedy, say sitcoms just ‘got to be funny’

    Site: New York Post

    Comedians Tim Allen and Bill Maher argue humor, not DEI, should govern sitcom production during Maher’s “Club Random” podcast Monday.

    Bill Maher, Tim Allen criticize DEI practices  New York Post

  • Favicon Greta Thunberg is a warning to parents raising ideologically captured kids | New York Post Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Greta Thunberg is a warning to parents raising ideologically captured kids

    Site: New York Post

    Greta Thunberg has become a weaponized vessel of the far left, deployed against Jews, against Israel, against Western democracy itself.

    Greta Thunberg is a warning to parents raising ideologically captured kids  New York Post

  • Favicon Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Warmth of Collectivism’ and the Cold Realities of New York City | National Review Added: Jan 6, 2026

    One Man’s ‘Warmth of Collectivism’ Is Another’s Inferno | National Review

    Site: National Review

    The authors of Mamdani’s inaugural address appear to genuinely believe true socialism has never been tried.

    Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Warmth of Collectivism’ and the Cold Realities of New York City  National Review

  • Favicon SpaceX stacks Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship megarocket's 12th test flight | Space Added: Jan 6, 2026

    SpaceX stacks Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship megarocket's 12th test flight

    Site: Space

    Liftoff of Starship Flight 12 is expected in the next few months.

    SpaceX stacks Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship megarocket's 12th test flight  Space

  • Favicon vittorio on X: "south africa: > 32% unemployment > 45% youth unemployment > 8% of population pays 90% of income tax > highest inequality on earth > top 0.01% (3,500 people) own 15% of wealth > bottom 50% has negative net worth > 330 days of blackouts per year > taxi mafia burns trains https://t.co/ISEkr5kQpJ" / X Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    vittorio on X: "south africa:  32% unemployment  45% youth unemployment  8% of population pays 90% of income tax  highest inequality on earth  top 0.01% (3,500 people) own 15% of wealth  bottom 50% has negative net worth  330 days of blackouts per year  taxi mafia burns trains https://t.co/ISEkr5kQpJ" / X

  • Favicon White House launches new Jan. 6 website detailing Capitol breach events | Fox News Added: Jan 6, 2026

    White House launches new Jan. 6 website detailing Capitol breach events | Fox News

    White House launches new Jan. 6 website detailing Capitol breach events  Fox News

  • Favicon The Ominous Kraken Mare, Titan's Largest Lake, Is Hiding Something Far Deeper Than Scientists Ever Expected Added: Jan 6, 2026

    The Ominous Kraken Mare, Titan's Largest Lake, Is Hiding Something Far Deeper Than Scientists Ever Expected

    Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel

    NASA’s Cassini mission uncovered a hidden feature on Saturn’s largest moon that’s rewriting what scientists thought they knew about its alien seas. A colossal methane-filled body may be far deeper, and stranger than anyone expected.

    The Ominous Kraken Mare, Titan's Largest Lake, Is Hiding Something Far Deeper Than Scientists Ever Expected

  • Favicon The Ominous Kraken Mare, Titan's Largest Lake, Is Hiding Something Far Deeper Than Scientists Ever Expected Added: Jan 6, 2026

    NASA Just Uncovered a Hidden Rainbow Canyon in Utah, It’s Millions of Years Old

    Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel

    From orbit, it looks like a painted wound carved deep into the Earth. But this canyon, hidden high in the plateaus of Utah, holds far more than just spectacular views.

    The Ominous Kraken Mare, Titan's Largest Lake, Is Hiding Something Far Deeper Than Scientists Ever Expected

  • Favicon Girl patriot 🙏 đŸ‡ș🇾 🩅 on X: "Zohran Mamdani voters who are excited about socialism hear some hard facts from a Venezuelan socialist survivor. "I think socialism is really good for society." https://t.co/EqYjY89q4q" / X Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Girl patriot 🙏 đŸ‡ș🇾 🩅 on X: "Zohran Mamdani voters who are excited about socialism hear some hard facts from a Venezuelan socialist survivor. "I think socialism is really good for society." https://t.co/EqYjY89q4q" / X

  • Favicon Why Israel Isn't a Colonial War Added: Jan 6, 2026

    The Arabs’ Anti-Colonial Delusion

    Site: Quillette

    The Arabs still believe that they are fighting a colonial war against Israel. But they are not.

    Why Israel Isn't a Colonial War

  • Favicon Why AI Boosts Creativity for Some Employees but Not Others Added: Jan 6, 2026

    Why AI Boosts Creativity for Some Employees but Not Others

    Site: Harvard Business Review

    Generative AI is transforming workflows, yet its impact on employee creativity remains uneven. New research reveals one explanation: AI boosts creativity primarily for employees with strong metacognition—the ability to plan, monitor, and refine thinking. These individuals strategically use AI to expand knowledge, free cognitive capacity, and break fixed mindsets, thereby fueling creative ideas. Leaders should pair AI adoption with metacognitive training and design workflows that encourage strategic and iterative engagement. Organizations that cultivate metacognitive skills will turn AI from a productivity tool into a sustained source of creative advantage.

    Generative AI is increasingly embedded into day-to-day workflows across organizations globally. Employees are using AI tools like ChatGPT to brainstorm solutions, explore alternatives, summarize information, and accelerate projects. As these tools become more capable, many organizations hope they will spark higher levels of creativity, enabling employees to generate more novel and impactful ideas. Yet, despite this promise, the creative payoff has been surprisingly inconsistent. A recent Gallup survey found that only 26% of employees who use generative AI report improvements in their creativity. This gap between widespread adoption and limited creative gains raises an important question for leaders: Can generative AI truly enhance creativity in the workplace, and why do some employees benefit while others do not? Our new research, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, answers this question. We find that generative AI can indeed boost employee creativity, but the gains are not universal. Specifically, employees with stronger metacognition—the ability to plan, evaluate, monitor, and refine their thinking—are more likely to experience creative gains from using generative AI, because they can use it more effectively to acquire the cognitive job resources that fuel creativity. For leaders and organizations, this finding reframes the challenge of AI-enabled creativity: to unlock AI’s potential for boosting workplace creativity, organizations must go beyond simply rolling out new tools; they also need to invest in developing employees’ metacognition and promote the thoughtful, strategic use of AI so employees can translate AI outputs into more effective creative performance. The Research To understand how and for whom generative AI enhances creativity, we focused on an important insight from creativity research: Employees produce more creative ideas when they have sufficient cognitive job resources. These resources include two key elements: a) information and knowledge, and b) the opportunity to adjust work methods and tasks, such as switching between complex and simple tasks and taking mental breaks. Information and knowledge are essential for creativity because creativity fundamentally involves recombining and synthesizing information in novel and useful ways. Similarly, opportunities to adjust work methods and tasks are crucial for creativity because they allow employees to break fixed mindsets and restore cognitive capacity. Our research proposes that using generative AI can increase employees’ cognitive job resources in two key ways. First, by expanding knowledge: Although employees’ own knowledge is limited, generative AI can provide large amounts of information within seconds. This expands employees’ knowledge base and enables them to integrate insights across domains. Second, by freeing mental capacity: When generative AI handles tasks such as summarizing texts, managing data, and drafting content, it reduces employees’ cognitive overload, allowing them to redirect resources to complex problem-solving. Employees can also use AI to support complex, cognitively demanding tasks while periodically shifting to simpler ones, allowing them to restore mental capacity and break fixed mindsets. However, access to AI tools alone does not guarantee that employees can acquire the cognitive resources needed for creativity. Employees differ substantively in their ability to leverage AI to obtain these cognitive job resources. We found that a key differentiator is employees’ metacognition: their ability to actively monitor their thinking while completing tasks. For example, employees with strong metacognition usually think through the steps to perform a task, keep track of how effective their approach is, and adjust when they notice a lack of progress. This ongoing reflection makes them more aware of their knowledge gaps, the demands of the task, and their own mental states. Therefore, they can better understand what information they need and when to shift gears or take breaks to disrupt fixed thinking patterns and restore cognitive capacity. By contrast, employees low in metacognition are more likely to accept AI’s first answer, rely on default outputs, and fail to check whether AI’s suggestions are accurate or relevant. As a result, employees with stronger metacognition are far better positioned to use AI tools to acquire the cognitive job resources that fuel creativity, whereas those with weaker metacognitive skills see few creative gains from AI. To examine these ideas in real work settings, we conducted a field experiment with 250 employees at a technology consulting firm in China. Employees were randomly assigned either to an AI condition, where they received a ChatGPT account for use in their daily work, or to a control condition without AI access. One week later, we assessed employees’ creativity using two independent evaluations: a) managers’ evaluations of employees’ overall creative performance over the week and b) two external raters’ evaluations of the novelty and usefulness of employees’ responses to a creativity task. Using a survey, we also measured metacognition with an established scale (asking people to list their level of agreement with statements such as, “While working toward my goal, I kept track of how effective my approach was”). The results were clear. Employees with stronger metacognition became more creative when they used AI—they generated ideas that were judged as more novel and more useful. But for employees with weaker metacognition, AI made little difference. In other words, only employees who knew how to engage thoughtfully with the tool were able to use AI to expand the cognitive resources that fuel creativity. In short, our research reveals a pivotal insight for leaders: Generative AI does not automatically make employees more creative. What matters is whether employees have the metacognition to use AI in a reflective way. The central question for leaders, therefore, is not whether employees use AI, but whether they have the metacognitive skills to engage with it thoughtfully and strategically—turning AI’s suggestions into creative insights. How Leaders Can Help Boost Employee Creativity As organizations and teams increasingly adopt generative AI, leaders should recognize a critical insight from our research: Employees’ metacognition is a key factor in determining whether AI actually enhances creativity. The following steps can help organizations and leaders maximize the creative impact of generative AI. 1. Help employees use AI to expand the cognitive job resources that fuel creativity. Generative AI can enhance employees’ creativity by expanding their access to information and knowledge and freeing up their mental capacity for creative problem-solving. Leaders should encourage employees to use AI to gather diverse information, explore multiple angles, and offload routine tasks to restore cognitive capacity. By using AI to enlarge their knowledge base, break fixed mindsets, and reduce cognitive overload, employees create the conditions that make creative insights more likely. However, our findings suggest that these benefits depend largely on how employees engage with AI—pointing to the importance of metacognition, which we highlight in the next takeaway. 2. Raise awareness that metacognition is the engine of AI-supported creativity. Leaders might assume that integrating generative AI into their workflows will automatically make all employees more creative. Yet our research shows that creative gains tend to occur among employees who can actively monitor their own thinking and then evaluate, question, and refine AI outputs. In practice, this means employees must treat AI suggestions as starting points rather than final answers—iterating on them, probing gaps, and challenging assumptions. For example, two employees using the same AI tool may end up with very different results: One may accept AI’s first suggestion without checking, while the other may examine its accuracy, push for alternatives, and integrate new insights. The latter approach is far more conducive to creativity. Leaders should help employees understand this distinction to facilitate more productive AI engagement. 3. Build metacognitive skills through targeted and scalable training. Leaders should consider employees’ metacognitive abilities when implementing AI and invest in developing these abilities through training. Notably, metacognitive skills can be strengthened through various methods. Companies can offer short training sessions that introduce metacognition and walk employees through real examples of AI errors, asking them to anticipate, detect, and correct those mistakes. Longer programs can focus on helping employees build deeper habits of planning, monitoring, and evaluating their thinking. Even simple checklists—clarifying the problem, determining how to evaluate AI’s suggestion, and exploring alternatives—can shift employees from passive reliance on AI to more active, strategic engagement. Depending on budget and priorities, organizations may adopt brief interventions or more extensive programs. 4. Design workflows that promote active, iterative engagement with AI. Leaders should design workflows that position AI as a thinking partner rather than a shortcut. Instead of encouraging employees to use AI for quick answers, leaders should establish processes that involve generating multiple perspectives, comparing and critiquing AI outputs, and refining ideas across several rounds. For example, a product team might use AI to generate contrasting viewpoints, debate their strengths and weaknesses during a meeting, and then synthesize the strongest ideas into a final recommendation. Such iterative processes naturally activate metacognitive thinking and prevent overreliance on AI defaults. Over time, organizations may even consider employees’ metacognitive capabilities when hiring for AI-intensive or creativity-intensive roles. But for most companies, building these skills through training and day-to-day practice will be more scalable than relying on selection alone. Caveats and Limitations When applying these insights, leaders should consider several limitations. First, our findings are based on a single organization in China. 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