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sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking

The End of the MrBeast Era

YT is at risk of being a place where only the MrBeasts of the internet that can afford hyper-professionalized content beling or for sub-par AI junk thrown together by bots.

How to prepare for the next decade

Scott Barker open.substack.com

The Revenge of the Home Page | the New Yorker

Kyle Chayka newyorker.com

Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot

Noah Smith noahpinion.blog

Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?

Adam Grant behavioralscientist.org

going quite a bit faster when you’re going slowly is a really big gain. Going very fast when you’re already going fast is the action of a dickhead.

The way we live in the United States is not normal.

Kirsten Powers kirstenpowers.substack.com

The book that got me in love with fiction again

You Exist In The Long Context

thelongcontext.com

the future value of AI may depend less on raw computing power and more on how effectively organizations curate the information they feed into these expanded context windows.

Meet the woman who lives without money: ‘I feel more secure than when I was earning’

Louise Southerden theguardian.com

love these kinds of profiles/stories