AI, insomnia, and the articulation of taste
We take a look at what has been a bonkers month in American history, and review all of your predictions, some of which have been stunningly accurate. It's the January 2021 Prediction Game update.
My slow and steady progression to living out the plot of the movie 'Her'
The tech industry needs to be honest about the trade-offs of risk
Why we should all care more about founders than we do
What consumer tech and media got wrong
Keyword brainstorming, freewriting exercises, my favorite prompts, and more ways to find your next great essay idea
How the gaming industry paved the way for tech
Narratives have network effects
A history of stock market exchanges: from fragmentation to monopoly, monopoly to fragmentation and back again.
Seven Years of Freedom
Everything we published this week
Returning risky results is a dimension of performance for AI models
Lessons on goal maximization from machine learning
A Book Review of The Power Law
Standards, like RSS for podcasts, enable emerging technologies to catch on quickly by allowing anyone to use them—but, they often come at the cost of stagnation.
A new type of media that uses AI to expand your perspective
Free meat and coffee from your university endaoment
How to Give Feedback to Your Colleagues
How to think about the chaos at OpenAI
Even if a token has a great supply model, it still needs a good reason to exist and for people to hold it.
The Race for Revenue Share
How Braintrust Used Tokens to Kickstart a Market
Maybe Elon should buy it
