everything is a diffusion of knowledge problem! here's a nice reference to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social from one of the best ai investors -- tomtunguz.com/the-accounta...

I love every frame from Spider-Verse but this is particularly great.

Thanks @delong.social for summarizing this chat with Dan Wang. Everyone should subscribe to Brad's newsletter! braddelong.substack.com/p/on-dan-wan...

It's a great book

I know that everything is terrible but this A$AP Rocky vs Spike Lee episode is so much fun-- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8w4...

vibe coding says more about demand than supply. the pent up demand has always been sitting there!

I’m in the middle of reading an advance copy of Dan Wang’s book Breakneck. It is very good and he’s convinced me that I don’t think about China enough. I think it is important enough that I’m hosting a virtual chat before the book comes out in hopes that it breaks through the zeitgeist.

A disconcerting number of high status people upended their worldviews because other people did not affirm that status in the way they thought appropriate. And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.

I mean I get the point of The Materialists and loved a lot of it. But at the same time, it isn’t that hard to choose Captain America over Reed Richards.

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Stephen Colbert happened to be in the midst of writing a “Take” for @newyorker.com, revisiting a classic Profile of Johnny Carson. “While I host a show in the same time slot and tradition as Carson…” We decided to publish it today. www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

Insightful post by Rob Go of Nextview Ventures about pressures on seed-stage VCs nextview.vc/blog/a-crisi...

This could be a template for 1001 situations, take your pick: "When we started talking to _______ about _______ problem, nobody could quite figure out whose job it was to solve it."

This has very strong @dsquareddigest.bsky.social vibes! popcornagents.substack.com/p/the-laptop...

Hey out there to our Bay Area ATProto nerds and ATProto curious friends. @germnetwork.com and ATProto Community Fund are hosting an ATProto meetup at the Internet @archive.org this coming Tuesday July 8th! Come on out, hack and chat: lu.ma/mf4n7jbi

cc @jamescham.bsky.social

Ok I realise that "world's greatest business thinkers" is a bit of hyperbole but this was a fun podcast to do youtu.be/00kRAW88YYM?...

this is a really good book that everyone interested in these topics should read.

what is the chance that the DNC runs out of money? from the nyt today--

Horseshoe theory ftw!

I loved this article but this was the most memorable new occupation. Very strong @dsquareddigest.bsky.social accountability sink vibes…

Joe remains the clearest voice on how to understand Los Angeles and California. If you are trying to figure out what is actually going on, you should follow him.

you never know how long the window is going to be open

New fund! Please send me your troublesome ringleaders...

Any good histories of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

When are AI/ML models unlikely to help with decision-making? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/06/05/w...

Conversation with the Computer History Museum on the trajectory of AI through time, on where we are today, and on directions heading into the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddjN... @computerhistory.bsky.social

reminder: the right way to think about the nyt is as a message bus between different groups of elites. so the right question isn't wow what a juicy story but instead what group of elites are trying to talk to what other group of elites and why?

I would love to find some way to punish journalists for saving stories for their books or for post mortems that are too late to be useful.

The thing that irritates me about modern journalism ecosystem is that the relevant news only comes out after something is already done so it is more about score settling than actually providing information when we need to make a decision.

Obviously undervalued: moral imagination.

Awkwardly bringing up the Barry Diller memoir at every dinner...

feels like there's a generalized lesson that if the thoughtful don't act then someone less thoughtful is eventually going to do stuff...

Good post by @joehellerstein.bsky.social on the theoretical foundations behind CRDTs. Automerge has exactly the layered structure he describes (commutative ops on top of a partially ordered log semilattice). Looking forward to the rest of the series jhellerstein.github.io/blog/crdt-tu...

"We're about to face AI that can manipulate us perfectly while still being dumb. Humans recognize persuasion; we know it instantly. But real intelligence and creativity? That takes years to evaluate. We're training our replacements to deceive us first." Matt Beane rewriting me using Claude.

Unfortunately, Henry’s book is prescient and key to understanding what’s going on around the world.

my favorite new experience of the year: voice based pre-briefings for Christian Ulstrup's AI and economics book club. Turns out he does this for all sorts of use cases and described it here. vapi.ai/blog/scaling...

The Great Leap Forward stemmed from multiple factors, including "the purge of intellectuals, the surge of less-educated radicals, the need to find new ways to generate domestic capital, rising enthusiasm about the potential results mass mobilization might produce..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_L...

A lecture series organized by the International Economic Association on the Economic Consequences of Automation and AI. Watch the videos by Pascual Restrepo, David Autor, and Joshua Gans. www.iea-world.org/automation-a...

Andor should have been called Lonni!

Did anyone actually watch Andor? Definitely worth multiple viewings…

We are very, very close to the point when someone like the NYT is going to write about evals and benchmarks as a means of influencing the AI companies. Crossing my fingers that it isn’t a dumb piece!

The Holy Spirit or eigenvalue centrality?

Why isn’t everyone talking about Andor?

Trying to decide whether or not to call your mom? I guarantee that if you read this you will give her a call... substack.com/home/post/p-...

We had this massive collective opportunity to create new better practices for virtual meetings since covid started. Has anyone collected them? Please share...

Andor is deceptive--and worth viewing again.

Anyone watching Andor?

I want to invest in those trying to enable more Donoho-style fricitionless reproducible systems by: - building tools for data, code sharing, score keeping; OR - building entire closed-end ecosystems applying those tools. (📄 from @beenwrekt.bsky.social reflection on Donoho.)