What I read this week...

The great stagnation, deepfakes, and the Vision Pro launch

This chart from Shyam Sankar’s piece is a little outdated but raises the provocative question of how much technology and software – tools supposed to make us more productive – have done to reverse the Great Stagnation of productivity

• Technology is the Problem (Shyam Sankar)

• Why did software eat the world but not increase the size of the pie? (Ted’s Substack)

• Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ (CNN)

• Violence and the Sacred: College as an incubator of Girardian terror (Dan Wang)

• ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models (Yao et al.)

• First human to receive Neuralink brain implant is 'recovering well,' Elon Musk says (USA Today)

• Clouded Judgement 2.2.24 - Cloud Giants Report Q4 '23 (Clouded Judgement)

• Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas (A Smart Bear)

• New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' (Visual Studio Magazine)

• The Fastest Growing Software Sectors in 2024 (Tomasz Tunguz)

• OpenAI Five (OpenAI)

• The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be on the Verge of Collapse (Time)

• Rabbit is building an AI model that understands how software works (TechCrunch)

• John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX to Expand Rural Connectivity to Farmers through Satellite Communications (John Deere)

• A new AI model called Morpheus-1 claims to induce lucid dreaming (Tom’s Guide)

• You Are Not Late to Artificial Intelligence (The Algorithmic Bridge)

• As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do. (The New York Times)

• Apple Vision Pro’s secret weapon? Mindfulness (TechCrunch)

• Apple Vision Pro: Day One (TechCrunch)

• Hedge Fund Analyst Checklist (Med Faber Research)

• How Mohnish Pabrai Uses Checklists (Pabrai Investment Funds)

• Meta is bucking just about every AI trend, including the ‘boys club’ (Semafor)

• The pain points of building a copilot (Austin Henley)

• Generating code was never the hard part (Nick Scialli)

• 40th Chief of Staff of the Army Initial Message to the Army Team (Army)

• Reactivating the SAT/ACT requirement for Dartmouth undergraduate admissions (Dartmouth College)

• Why the AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla (Spectrum IEEE)

What I listened to this week

• #48 - Delian Asparouhov (LaBossiere Podcast)

• A truly brutal day for CEOs on Capitol Hill (Nicholas Thompson)

• Introducing r1 (Rabbit)

• #45 - Keith Rabois (LaBossiere Podcast)
  
  

Song of the week

Sarah’s Place (feat. Noah Kahan) by Zach Bryan


New project update coming soon. Have a great week