“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.” — Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life
Futures: Best 2023 inventions. Mammographies in Peruvian supermarkets. BBC Futures foresight report: “Things are not normal” [PDF].
Business: Toyota’s reducing its EV sales. Maersk cuts 10k jobs - shifts in shipping? Corporate strategy is blending dances and rythms.
Tech: OpenAI introduces GPTs, no-code AI models, with their marketplace. AI assistants as interfaces to the world (and guardians of your data?). KG and reasoning for LLMs. EFF tool to test trackability of ones browser.
People: Planting seeds or weeds? Tips for heart rate control before public speaking ;) Using ChatGPT live during interviews will change the hiring game. Humans adopt AI biases. Blogs to get a hive mind started.
Random: The beauty of chalk. Project Silica: storing bits in glass. Caricatures of security people.
AI: growth vs existential risk [pdf]. Apple to put more in AI. AI to write patents. AI for lawyers. 24/7 influencers (FR).
DIY: OpenAI better functions and GPTs (what can GPTs do?) - and images. Parsing PDFs cleanly?
