End returning undesirable vacation items, learn the weblog posts. Oh and observe me on Bluesky.
Utilizing AI to speak to animals [Ina Fried/Axios] – Animals most likely discuss. So it appears cheap to consider that AI will assist us decode the ‘language’ of not less than one species within the close to future.
Defining Financial Equity [Philip Rosedale/founder, Second Life] – I recognize that Philip, a technologist at coronary heart, is writing about equity as associated to, however separate from, financial equality. Equity is a extremely highly effective idea – there’s a logical and emotional element to it. Optimizing for progress with out contemplating equity leads us to a few of the political and societal points in America (and the world) immediately. In addition to leaders who search to take advantage of the sense of unfairness to their very own beneficial properties. As Philip lays out on this put up from 2023,
I write about this as a result of I believe a equity metric of this kind is doable, and in my view needs to be as or extra necessary than a statistic like GDP. Additional, I think that perceived financial equity has steadily decreased over time in the identical manner that the world’s Gini index has progressively elevated. I additionally suspect that in lots of nations perceived equity is so low that earlier than lengthy we are going to see violent revolutions or different disruptive and damaging resets taking place. If we have been conscious of our collective sense of unfairness, we’d be extra more likely to take motion earlier than it’s too late.
After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, right here’s how my considering has modified [JP Koning/Moneyness] – I’m solely ankle deep within the crypto world however a lot of this put up resonates for me. The creator, bullish or not less than supportive of many makes use of for BTC, principally is cautious of the business utilizing its energy to power governments to amass Bitcoin as a part of a nationwide reserve technique.
Though I by no means needed to ban Bitcoin, I can’t assist however wonder if a prohibition wouldn’t have been the higher coverage again in 2013 or 2014 given the brand new bitcoin-by-force path that advocates are pushing it in direction of. But it surely’s most likely too late for that; the coin is already out of the bag. All I can hope is that my lengthy historical past of writing on the subject may persuade a couple of readers that forcing others to play the sport you like isn’t honest sport.
10 issues I want I knew about careers after I began [Molly Graham/Glue Club] – I take into consideration 75% of my hyperlink posts embody one thing from Molly, and we’d most likely all be higher off if it was 100%. Title is self-explanatory right here.
I additionally spent quite a lot of my early profession speeding to the highest of a ladder. If I might return and provides my 20-year-old self some recommendation, it could be to cease obsessing about leveling up and focus extra on studying about myself and the world. A strong basis for an awesome profession is a transparent and deep sense of what you’re distinctive at (which is constructed from experiences) and a powerful, deep community full of people that love working with you.
