Playbook for the Great Divergence
The divide between those who can effectively utilise AI tools and those who cannot is widening. To remain competitive, it would be useful to follow a 7-level playbook.…
Art You Can Dance To
Stop Making Sense is being released in a restored edition for screening in theatres. This might be the first time I return to a cinema in years. To dance.…
7 Quasi-Provocative Questions
These questions aren’t really provocative. They are actually obvious, even banal. But they can feel provocative at the right moment. And they help me and people I talk to think and act with more clarity.…
Weekly Links 2022#44
* The Only Crypto Story You Need by Matt Levine (comprehensive) * The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it (they have more than enough and use the surplus to support dubious leftist causes that don't really have much to do with the Wikipedia mission) * Remote workers are wasting their…
Weekly Links 2022#40
* McDonald's in Lugano, Switzerland now accepts payments in crypto coins * Violet's Humanbound Tokens are a nice new approach to on/off chain identity * When Cars Kill, It’s Not an “Accident” * Richard Hanania argues that the events of the last year prove that Fukuyama was right * Super cool and versatile…
Weekly Links 2022#38
* 🎞️ Yale Historian Timothy Snyder, famed for his excellent popular history books like On Tyranny, Bloodlands, and Black Earth, and world expert on Ukraine and its history is broadcasting his fall semester course on The Making of Modern Ukraine. Super recommended++. * 🎞️ German science edutainer Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim pokes fun at homeopathy…
TGI Freestyle 2022#37
1. Lambchop - The Old Gold Shoe 2. Captain Beefheart - Electricity 3. Pere Ubu - Laughing 4. Link Wray - Rumble 5. Man or Astroman? - Destination Venus 6. Miranda Sex Garden - Open Eyes 7. The Residents - From the Plains to Mexico 8. Laika - Bedbugs 9.…
The Ultimate Step-by-Step Hiring Playbook
The most dangerous trap when making hiring decisions (or when making any low certainty / high stakes decision in work and life) is that we become overly focused on what we know at present.…