1: The Economics of AI | Coursera — my self-study list gets longer and longer.
2: Finding Person-Problem Fit - Compound Manual — Brie Wolfson has some of the best writing on how to think about your career as a generalist. Plus, forthcoming book?
3: Get Episode Transcripts — is there an API for podcast transcripts? Yep.
4: East Tennessee Convention - Wikipedia — a brief history of pro-Union stronghold Knoxville.
5: 2024 Geothermal Update - Austin Vernon’s Blog — hot rocks!
6: Book Review: The Rise Of Christianity - by Scott Alexander — an interesting read, and thorough enough that maybe I don’t need to read the book too.
7: We can Terraform the American West – Casey Handmer’s blog — this went viral for a bit. “Moonshot” is overused as a term but what are the moonshots for progress that the median voter would rally around? I’ve liked Yglesias’ “One Billion Americans” as a digestable tagline. “Lakeside property in Nevada” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it but this seems on a similar scale.
8: Issue 1 - Colossus — taste is back in style.
9: Even if AI progress hits a wall, there are a lot of changes on the way just from implementing gpt-4 / claude 3.5 —
Just saw the first actual example of this in production in a 1,000+ people company, and it's amazing
— Flo Crivello (@Altimor) October 30, 2024
They built an AI agent that:
1/ makes phone calls to everyone in the co every week, asking for a status update
2/ sends a report back with a summary of all the updates
3/ has… https://t.co/CPGz9ZhaEd
10: The Remains of the Day - Wikipedia — most likely my favorite book read this year.
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