2025 Week 07 - Weekly Notes
Summary
It feels like itās been a long week as Susan asked me to help her with Money, and over the weekend we are having a dinner w/ Adriel. Morgan has been on campus 4 days this week, and it feels like far too much for her.
Notes
Interesting to look at
Interesting Internet Takes
- The Unsung Inventors of āMeg Ryan Fallā - by Erin Carlson
- My Toddler Son Likes to Wear Dresses. Can He Wear One to My Sisterās Wedding? - The New York Times
Started my own note thatās similar to this.
The Erza Klein and Kara Swisher interview
- Opinion | What Elon Musk Wants - The New York Times
- And also: Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage - The Atlantic
A case for prepping
Itās me. Hi. Iām the problem itās me
Henrik Karlsson - Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
Pradyumna Prasad - How to have a career even when OpenAIās o3 drops
- Yes, yes you do
How To Read A Novel - by Steven Johnson - Adjacent Possible
The Art of Calling Out Room Dynamics (I wrote about this one a while ago)
The Attention Crisis Is Just a Distraction | The New Yorker
- Seems to be attention grabbing, if you know what I mean
- Iāve read half of this book. There are some goodies, but I also hate Eric Jorgenson highlighted Balaji. Be careful
Sounds like they want to do the right thing and find out if they are doing an economic good.
Fuck them
- Google Calendar no longer includes start of Black History Month, Pride Month ā NBC Chicago
- I made my own calendar, just because of this
Yeah, I think I missed this last time - Introducing ChatGPT Gov | OpenAI
Chat With Your Readwise Highlights - Readwise Docs
Idiot in Chief
Itās interesting HuggingFace is using the 671B model to create a distilled model thatās more accessible. Iām curious when I can run one of these small models on my laptop
Iām interested in testing out a UI that I can build with Go and WASM. This is peaking my curiosity
Iām compiling a list of why AI isnāt replacing the workforce and those other lies. It doesnāt happen as easy as this, and itās not a 1-to-1 replacement (like the issues that we have without DBAs)
Film: Turn Every Page ā The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb | Sony Pictures Classics
8 years to arrive, 10 years to build a deflector. Dear god.
- It might be too late to stop ācity killerā asteroid headed toward Earth: scientist
- Yes, the odds of an asteroid striking Earth have doubled. No, you donāt need to worry
The Plot Against America - by Mike Brock
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer | sean goedecke
The all new le Chat: Your AI assistant for life and work | Mistral AI
Recommendations
- Talk to go to: Kiera Wright-Ruiz Author Talk ā¢ My (Half) Latinx Kitchen: My (Half) La | Omnivore Books on Food - March 1st
- Book: Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious, Shareable Sides by Caroline Choe, Ghazalle Badiozamani
- Book: Sahil Bloom: The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life
- I started reading and got through the first section. Timeless advice
- A wonderful podcast from Ed Zitron: betteroffline - Listen on Spotify - Linktree
- Book: Superagency - What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future by Reid Hoffman
- Steven Levy has a newsletter. - Plaintext Newsletter by Steven Levy | WIRED
- Book: Letās Talk About It Links
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