“In a hundred years you will be a relic. In a thousand years you will not even be a memory. Your race will go the same way as a thousand others.[…] They have all discovered something, learned something, that has caused them to transcend my understanding. It may be that they even transcend being. They may have become gods, or ghosts. In either case, I have no wish to join them. Intelligence is very much a two-edged sword, Captain-Doctor. It is useful only up to a point. It interferes with the business of living. Life, and intelligence, do not mix very well. They are not at all closely related, as you childishly assume." (Swarm)
Great ideas: Homomorphic encryption allows mathematical operations to be performed on encrypted data - eg ML on anonymized datasets. Games for flood-risk management. Causal-loop diagrams to understand complex systems.
Running a SaaS on 5h/week: one of the best paper on the topic.
Private Equity - Mark Leonard’s Constellation Software Operating ManualSignals: Grayscale screen for mental well being. Film cameras are coming back. On my list for a long time, asteroid mining, now raises funds. Expecting to see more from nodules. EU adopts USB-C. Classifying and naming heatwaves is coming up. 20% of Brits cannot afford to be online.
Goldman Sachs Facing ESG Probe.Are youngsters really digital-literates? “Those who grew up with computers did so in the 80s/90s. Those born in the 2000s grew up with smartphones and apps.” [FR] The former actually had to build & hack to understand what they did when things were complicated. That built skills the latter do not have. I had a chat with a twenty-something - he is the only one from a group of 30+ to actually code and know his computer.
Consumed: The Pentaverate: good but. Progressing on StrangerThings - good music.
Crimes of the Future: interesting but could have been greater.
Coupez!: a good laugh!The Swarm - LoveDeathRobots - reminder of B. Sterling. Intelligence a drawback for survival.
Exploration: Good read on phones - 2600 grade. Two great hardware confs this summer: MCH and B2H.
Produced: BAU. Car-park models. Tagging&mapping CVs.
AOB: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism
Backlog: Watch Social Dilemna.