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The AI tools that will transform your mind & body
Emotional coaching, mental wellness, and smart AI-powered workouts
Mario Peshev
August 13, 2025
Welcome to The Smarter Brain, a curation of thought-provoking ideas and actionable reads to help you build better habits and become more productive.
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The Smarter Brain Team
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3 Ideas for Better Habits
Growing with Grace
Author and researcher, Brian Christian, on the intersection of humanity and technology.
“Learning self-control is important, but it’s equally important to grow up in an environment where adults are consistently present and trustworthy.”
Programmed to Evolve
Physicist Max Tegmark on the future of intelligence and the shape of reality.
“In other words, we can think of life as a self-replicating information-processing system whose information (software) determines both its behavior and the blueprints for its hardware.”
The Machine’s Next Move
Chess grandmaster and strategist, Garry Kasparov, on human intellect and calculated risk.
“If you program a machine, you know what it’s capable of. If the machine is programming itself, who knows what it might do?”
Create Your Story Together
Always ready to listen, chat, and explore life with you - Replika is the AI friend who remembers what matters to you, helps you grow, and shares your world in real time. From video calls to AR adventures, journaling to self-coaching, Replika is there, 24/7.
Productivity Tools and Resources
The AI-Powered Path to a Smarter, Stronger You
Dive into how AI is reshaping personal development - from chatbots boosting resilience to AI tutors accelerating learning and fitness assistants adapting to your goals.
From Emotion Sensing to Spiritual Cues: AI’s Surprising Growth Tools
What does deeply personalized growth look like? This forward-thinking article highlights how AI tools are using emotion sensing, biometric feedback, and even spiritual cues to support holistic growth in real time. A thought-provoking read for those exploring AI’s deeper potential. Discover AI’s deeper potential for holistic growth, from biometric feedback to emotion-sensing breakthroughs.
The Science of AI-Optimized Workouts
Fitbod uses data-driven insights to optimize your workouts, ensuring each session challenges you just right while respecting your body’s recovery needs for consistent progress.
What We're Reading
With This Week in Machine Learning & AI, you’ll stay two steps ahead in an industry that changes by the hour. Every issue distills the most important academic research, emerging technologies, and market-shaping announcements, so you can quickly understand what’s happening now - and what’s coming next.
Brain Food by Shane Parrish is a weekly newsletter designed to sharpen your thinking and elevate your decision-making. Each issue curates timeless wisdom, mental models, and thought-provoking insights drawn from history, psychology, and world-class performers.
Brain Food
Today I Learned: Japan has more pets than children - about 15.9 million cats and dogs compared to about 13.7 million children under 15. (Source)
Science: One gram of DNA can store 215 petabytes of data - over 100 times more than all of Google’s servers. (Source)
Have a productive rest of your week,
The Smarter Brain Team
Resource Spotlight
AI Frontiers, Self-Improving Systems, Real Implications
Monthly briefings from the cutting edge of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Get beyond the buzzwords with grounded conversations on emergent models, autonomous agents, and the nature of intelligence itself. Built for technologists, researchers, and forward-thinkers who value nuance over hype and exploration over easy answers.
Tiny Wins, Enduring Strength, Real Impact
Farnam Street’s crisp dispatch cuts through ambient advice with distilled insight on habit architecture, identity-building, and slow-burning change. Aimed at thinkers, builders, and doers who value substance over shortcuts and long-term resilience over motivation hacks.
Designed Reflection, Gentle Challenge, Real Clarity
TechRadar’s personal walkthrough cuts through polished marketing to deliver an honest, reflective exploration of crafting an AI‑powered philosophical coach - a character you design to help break through burnout, surface insight, and provoke inner dialogue. Built for self‑reflectors, writers, and deep thinkers who value intentional experimentation over generic pep talks and psychological growth over convenience.
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