reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
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
had to read this several times to grok it but applied to a real-life example.
It’s hard to design the perfect onboarding. but it’s easy to check: “Did the user reach ‘Aha!’ in 3 steps instead of 7?” or “Did 80% of users complete the flow?”
So the industry (and people) naturally get pulled into automated loops. this is why mid-training is powerful and dangerous. it can manufacture the appearance of discernment while dodging deeper unmeasurable criteria.
“They have learned to produce the appearance of discernment without ever developing the faculty itself.”
what we lose when everything gets summarized.
Debugging Tech Journalism—Asterisk
asteriskmag.com
The Good Whale
open.spotify.comhaven’t been into a podcast this much since the Serial days. the story behind Keiko, the whale in Free Willy.
The book that got me in love with fiction again