reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
Incredible book for founders
And if you want to predict the future, go to a history lecture or set your WARC case study date filter to twenty years ago.
Matt Waksman • Why the future of Planning is Opera, Only Fans, God, and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
if you want to predict the future, go to a history lecture or set your case study date filter to twenty years ago.
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Dwarkesh Pateldwarkesh.com
Trends – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – May 2025 – BOND
The document analyzes rapid growth and transformative trends in artificial intelligence, highlighting unprecedented user adoption, technological advances, global competition, enterprise AI integration, and associated benefits and risks shaping the future.
bondcap.com
fascinating historical perspective.
our ancestors experienced day-to-day unpredictability (you could die from childbirth, starvation was a constant threat, etc…) but global stability (if your parents were peasants, you’d prob be a peasant).
modern humans inverted that - routine defines us but there is global instability (the world is constantly changing - technology, climate, politics)
other weird things about modern life:
children teach their parents how to use tools that are critical to thriving in modern society, a complete inversion of the transmission of knowledge through generations.
non-local social comparison - we compare ourselves to billions of people, not a few hundred in close proximity to us.
we are distanced from nature, whereas for generations before survival was tied to understanding the natural world.
Perfect Days - Apple TV
tv.apple.com
That is: we don’t—we can’t—remember everything. Humans are at least as lossy as AI is, but the details we keep matter. Two people can attend a party and leave with entirely different impressions; 300 million can witness the same election and debate whether a fraud or landslide has occurred. A photograph says more about its creator than its subject.... See more