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Actually, everyone’s life is weird. “Most of my friends have life paths that go something like this: they got ruinously obsessed with something to the exclusion of everything else and then worked on it. And eventually that failed or succeeded and then they got ruinously obsessed with something else and started working on that. And it turns out that if you’re obsessive enough the credentials thing sort of goes away because people are just like, oh, you’re clearly competent and bizarrely knowledgeable about this thing you’re obsessed with, I want to help you work on it.” (Via Doug Belshaw.)
People: Refrigeration changed how we eat. D&G perfumes for dogs. The race to 150. Does self-control lie in the genes. Non-AI isometric drawings.
Tech: Digital liveness. Solar power with super thin coating. One million checkboxes. The curse of specialization. Google dark web reports. 2024 top 10 techs.
Business: Job crafting. Race to dominate stablecoins. Fractionalized employees. Costco and modular housing.
AI: Luggage free trips. McKinsey take on agents. Addiction to AI companions. Affective computing. AI and humanity evolution. Simulated voters for polls. AI and academic publishing.
Random: Interesting Paris mapping (FR). Writers as indicator species.
