reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
“Most of the people I know working in AI—and I might have a biased sample size—are people who are inspired about fixing the world. They grew up on sci-fi, and they're from a really cool science fiction intellectual tradition that feels really modern, really American. I first got really caught up in that because, you know, in 2020 and stuff I was like, "Wow, the whole world is sad," and here everyone's really excited. Everyone's really happy, and everyone really wants to build America and really wants to make something great. But they are also fighting market forces. They're also just trying to stay alive.”
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
How AI assistants work
an honest reflection from Yancey Strickler on stepping out of the crypto rabbit hole.
writing os not generating text. I expect it to be better than me at prose-generation but that is still totally orthogonal to why I write
pseudo productivity
haven’t been into a podcast this much since the Serial days. the story behind Keiko, the whale in Free Willy.