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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...

It happened!

Did anyone suggest flight? Lots of examples of overblown or outright fraudulent claims of human powered flight before it actually succeeded.

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

YouTube video by Track Star* Testing A$AP Rocky and Spike Lee's Music Knowledge | Track Star* Versus

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!

Breakneck (Book Debut): Dan Wang & Noah Smith on China’s Tech Ambitions · Zoom · Luma Join us for a virtual conversation between Dan Wang and Noah Smith on China’s audacious push to engineer the future. In this discussion moderated by James…

Please consider joining a virtual chat with Dan about his new book and telling a friend! Here’s the invite: lu.ma/gk9j5v06

More about the book (Very Important People have said great things and it is very readable): danwang.co/breakneck/

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.

Excellent!

Oh you are in Chicago! I'm going to get him to reach out. Former University of Chicago professor.

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.

One day Eric Jonas is going to be a client of yours...

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Stephen Colbert on Kenneth Tynan’s Profile of Johnny Carson From Hollywood to the Hasty Pudding, we waft like smoke from an unfiltered Pall Mall through Carson’s worlds, most of which are gone.

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...

A Crisis Moment for Seed VC This is a long read, but I’ll highlight four interrelated factors that are creating this existential threat to seed: Industry maturation The two unstoppable forces Power law as consensus  The AI platf...

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...

Very cool!

Bay Area ATProto Meetup · Luma Let's build the future of the social web! AT Protocol is the open-source social layer powering Bluesky and the emerging "Atmosphere" of social apps like…

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

A point that continually saves civilizations: “If you have power over humans, you must draw on your own humanity.”

They are hoping to find new accountability sinks!

cc @jamescham.bsky.social

I love it!

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--