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Rich on Tech
May 18

AI Wars: Google vs ChatGPT

Plus, the best way to send a fax for free.
Dear friends, Busy week in the world of tech. I was up in Mountain View for Google’s biggest event of the year, Google IO. It’s a developer’s conference where programmers learn more about the tools available to build apps, but there is always a more consumer-facing keynote describing all of the neat things Google is working on.
Rich DeMuro ∙ 14 LIKES
How They Make Money
May 17

💰 Hedge Funds' Top Picks in Q1

Google, Amazon and international stocks shine
Welcome to the Friday edition of How They Make Money. Over 100,000 subscribers turn to us for business and investment insights. In case you missed it: 📊 Earnings Visuals (4/2024) ☁️ Amazon: Wild Margin Expansion ⚙️ Semiconductor Titans Visualized
App Economy Insights ∙ 36 LIKES
Lenny's Newsletter
May 16

Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google, Quantcast)

Brought to you by: • WorkOS—Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs • Mercury—The powerful and intuitive way for ambitious companies to bank • OneSchema—Import CSV data 10x faster — Jag Duggal is chief product officer at Nubank, a decacorn neobank founded in Brazil. It’s valued at over $30 billion, is bigger than Coinbase, Robinhood, Affirm, and SoFi combined, has 100 million customers (more than Bank of America!) while only operating in three countries in Latin America, and 80% to 90% of its growth comes through word of mouth. Prior to Nubank, Jag was a director of product management at Facebook, a senior vice president at Quantcast, and a product leader at Google. In our conversation, we discuss:
Lenny Rachitsky ∙ 72 LIKES
Colin Brown
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2d
1) I want some of that merch! 2) Don't be the lawyer for your hypothesis. Be the judge of it really resonated. 3) Love the Sean Ellis score. If you are going to spend so many calories building something then at least make it something people truly love. 4) Just because you are losing dosen't mean you are (have) lost! So true why do we find that lesson hard to remember.
Thanks for going the extra mile on this one. Jag your commitment to your values shines through thanks for turning up for this episode. Great content. Lenny you are getting better and better at unlocking so much value! Keep it up.
Growth Memo
May 20

Google AIO 24

Threats AND opportunities.
A warm welcome to 57 new Growth Memo readers who joined us since last week! Join the ranks of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and 12,500 other Growth Memo readers:
Kevin Indig ∙ 10 LIKES
Ebike Funs
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7h
What should be changed about e-commerce SEO?
Edtech Insiders
May 21

The Future of AI in Education: Google and OpenAI Strategies Unveiled

GPT-4o, Gemini integration with Google for Education, LearnLM, an exclusive interview with Shantanu Sinha, and more!
🚨 Follow us on LinkedIn to be the first to know about new events and content! 🚨 The Future of AI in Education: Google and OpenAI Strategies Unveiled By Ben Kornell
Sarah Morin, Alex Sarlin, and Ben Kornell ∙ 10 LIKES
The Free Press
May 22

Why Did Google Ban Winslow Homer?

The artist's sketches of Confederate soldiers aren't “dangerous or derogatory content"—they're historical evidence.
Claudia Strauss-Schulson has been running Schulson Autographs, which sells historical documents like letters signed by presidents or a doodle by Marlon Brando, for around 15 years. Strauss-Schulson, speaking to me from Millburn, Ne…
Suzy Weiss ∙ 30 LIKES
Mickel Knight
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1d
I was given a month's suspension from Facebook for posting unacceptable things. The post? A meme posted on D-day with two pictures. On one side Hitler doing his open-handed salute. The other Churchill holding up the peace sign. The caption was "Scissors beats paper".
Thinking my post must have been flagged by a bot, I appealed. My appeal was denied just a few minutes later. Either my post was never seen by a human, or said human was a complete idiot. I tried elevating the issue but that went nowhere. I was given a month-long suspension. I personally gave Facebook a lifetime suspension.
Terry M.
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1d
So it was a bot. Well, who programmed the bot? Don’t blame artificial intelligence. Blame genuine bigotry.
AI Supremacy
May 15

Google I/O AI keynote updates 2024

This is a rundown of some of the main features of the event.
Hello Everyone, I was more interested in Google I/O this year than usual in 2024. Google like OpenAI, really hit home with multi-modality and longer context windows. But it’s the multiplicity of Google’s product upgrades that is so multi-faceted, fascinating and frankly confusing.
Michael Spencer ∙ 33 LIKES
Michael Spencer
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May 15
To see our CHAT About this event and to contribute please go here: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/3a02ee08-bcb8-47da-b886-f240780e3d6b
Wonder Tools
May 16

🌶️ 7 ways to spice up Google Slides

Wonder Tools | Easy new ways to strengthen your presentations 🪩
Summary: Strengthen your Google Slides with new templates that make presentations look better, plug-ins that add interactivity, and AI to help draft decks quickly. For even more polished presentations, pick from six of the best alternatives to GSlides. 🪩
Jeremy Caplan ∙ 14 LIKES
Aditi’s Substack
May 17

I gave up my $800k/yr Google AI job for the hope of having a baby.

My epic burnout and gentle healing. My ten-year struggle for a miracle baby. And an argument for why the AI revolution means we should trust our instincts and follow our dreams.
CW: infertility, mental illness, trauma, childbirth. Three years before I quit Google, my income tax statement showed a number I thought I was dreaming. I'd recently gotten divorced and promoted to L6, so, high on freedom, I bought a three-bedroom house right across from a park in Redwood City, all cash.
Aditi ∙ 26 LIKES
Mary Caulfield
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1d
Wow! I still remember you as the hopeful, creative undergrad I met nearly 20 years ago. What an amazing story you have had and how beautifully you tell it! It seems to me that you have discovered true success by being able to reflect on your experiences, change course, and find what's meaningful at every stage.
Danielle Coffyn
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3d
This is such a powerful story. Thank you for writing and sharing about the impact of the work environment on your overall health. And congratulations on a beautiful daughter 💛
The Social Juice
May 19

What happened in marketing: Scary GPT4o & Death of SEO, but rise of CTV + Social AdTech

Reddit is food for AI, Google vs SEO Industry and AdTech dreams at Upfront. 🧃
A lot of banter, rants and everything is happening in marketing. As my newsletter on next Friday isn’t about it. Until then, I suggest reading Bianca Dămoc’s write-up on the SEO drama. Why Join: If you are on your phone, always looking for ideas. Being in Discord Community of 300+ marketers help.
Jaskaran ∙ 11 LIKES
Lauren Gallo
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4d
Dude you really are a hero for these!
Carolynne Alexander
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3d
Amazing round up again! Thank you.
Growth Memo
May 13

David vs. Goliath

Does Google give big sites an unfair SEO advantage?
A warm welcome to 57 new Growth Memo readers who joined us since last week! Join the ranks of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and 12,500 other Growth Memo readers:
Kevin Indig ∙ 17 LIKES
Christopher Jan Benitez
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4d
Great post! Question: what are your personal thoughts about RetroDodo's demise? Pretty solid brand, solid content strategy, has E-E-A-T, and yet it was hit hard by the core update. Is it simply because it's an affilate content site, which is why it got penalized? Either way, it just doesn't add up, which means Google's algorithm is fundamentally broken at the moment!
Casandra Campbell
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6d
Stupid question: Does "visibility" = organic traffic? Or is it relative (eg. the percentage of time you show up?) Basically, did the sites that increased their visibility also definitely grow organic traffic?
Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg
May 15

Alsobrooks Rocks It, Good Inflation Report, 2nd NYT Poll Has Biden Up 3

Biden and Trump are debating on June 27th/Welcome new subscribers!
Happy Wednesday all. Got a few things for you today: Late Breaking News - It appears Trump and Biden are debating on June 27th! More on this tomorrow. A Good Inflation Report - From The Washington Post, “US inflation eased last month in first slowdown of 2024”
Simon Rosenberg ∙ 326 LIKES
ArcticStones
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8d
“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal.”
– President Joe Biden
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President Biden could add:
“If you won’t even testify in your own defense in court, what makes anyone think you’re brave enough to defend your abysmal record and abhorrent "Project 2025" policy proposals in a Presidential debate?”
“You’re afraid of E. Jean Carroll, you’re afraid of Stormy Daniels, and you’re afraid of me.”
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Proposal:
Also, allow only a ten-second interruption while it is your opponent’s turn to speak. After that, your microphone is automatically muted.
Televise the debate with a 60-second delay with fact checkers having mute buttons. If, say, 4 out of 5 fact checkers press their button, the candidate goes silent – and the fact checkers’ comments appear on screen.
No audience. (Done deal!)
Proposed moderators: Christiane Amanpour and Anderson Cooper. (But I’d prefer Amy Goodman and Rachel Maddow.)
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Ross J Bernstein
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8d
For those people who forgot what Donald Trumps first term looked like and forgot what Joe Biden accomplished here is something to give to people with a bad memory
Donald Trump first term
Fired FBI Director Jim Comey via TV for investigating Russias role in 2016 election
Fired next in command FBI Director trying to deprive him of his pension
Fired everyone in his whitehouse who testified to congress about what was going on in the whitehouse
Separated children from their immigrant parents who came to this country and locked up the kids in cages. 1000 kids never found their parents again
Shook down the Ukrainian President for information on Joe Biden. He threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine
Trump lied to America about the pandemic saying there would only be a few cases. Then he lied about Hydroxychloriquine that it would save peoples lives. Hydroxychloriquine was connected to the deaths of 18,000 supporters. He recommended injecting bleach and Lysol. He had political rallies without masks. He allowed the pandemic to crash the economy raising the unemployment rate to 17 to 18%. People panicked at the supermarkets cleaning them out. There was no eggs, water, bread, meat and toilet paper available. Trump was responsible for the deaths of 200,000 to 300,000 people. Never used the government to ship out masks and testing kits nationwide. Trump never did anything to stop the virus and made fun of the virus saying it was kung flu
Trump ordered authorities to fire at a black lives matter protest in Washington DC with flashbangs and rubber bullets in 2020 while holding a bible upside down
Joe Biden
Singlehandedly made the white house act more responsible and normally
Defeated the pandemic when Donald Trump never took it seriously passing the American rescue plan to help the country recover
Added 14 million jobs for the fastest job growth in the nations history
Passes a 1.2 billion dollar infrastructure bill with 9 mega infrastructure projects where Donald Trump broke his promise
Passed the largest investment in clean energy in American history
Secured billions in badly needed new science spending
Lowered the cost of drugs and healthcare
Protected same sex marriage
Signed into law a 375 billion dollar climate change bill
Signed in law major gun safety
Expanded health care for veterans
Bolstered domestic manufacturing of semi conductor computer chips
Erased over 140 billion in student loan debt
passed the Emmett till anti lynching law making lynching a federal crime
created 4,000 new union jobs compared to trump’s 200
ByteByteGo Newsletter
May 11

EP111: My Favorite 10 Books for Software Developers

This week’s system design refresher: 10 Coding Principles Explained in 5 Minutes (Youtube video) My Favorite 10 Books for Software Developers 25 Papers That Completely Transformed the Computer World Change Data Capture: Key to Leverage Real-time Data
ByteByteGo ∙ 273 LIKES
Yosra
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May 11
Studied the Designing Data-Intensive Applications book when I was in uni and I learned A LOT from it. 100/10 would recommend
Lalo Mouta
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May 11
Design Patterns. It was the book that changed how I develop software. It was amazing to understand all the reasoning a developer should consider when write code.
The Raine Report
May 20

Amazing AI From Google

Here are all of the new announcements from the Google IO conference.
Last weeks Google IO conference was a showcase of all their new AI tech coming this year. I have extracted the best bits for you. Google Astra This is a project from Google Deepmind designed to showcase AI agents in everyday life. It responds to voice and video input and can remember details from the scene. For example, you could video you living room and…
Dan Raine ∙ 15 LIKES
Andrew
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3d
Exciting and scary times all rolled in to one ..
Letters from an American
May 12

May 11, 2024

If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother. But “Mothers’ Day”—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer enormity of the death caused by the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War conv…
Heather Cox Richardson ∙ 4745 LIKES
Berry M. (ME)
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May 12
A century and a half later women are still seeking equal rights, autonomy over their own health needs, equal pay and respect. We've gained so much ground, yet, of late, lost ground. Thank you to all the mothers and the not-mothers who have dedicated their lives to making the world a better place.
Betsy Smith
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May 12
Even in our democracy, what we have won for women remains fragile and vulnerable. Let us rededicate ourselves on this Mothers' day to reclaiming the rights that have been taken from us.
High Growth Engineer
Apr 28

Why reading whitepapers takes your career to the next level (and how to do it)

Guest post by L6 Staff Engineer & Tech Lead at Google
Hi everyone 👋, Jordan here. I’m excited to feature Micah Lerner , L6 Staff Engineer and Tech Lead at Google, and author of Micah Learns , a blog with recurring deep dives on technical topics. Micah attributes a large part of his growth to reading technical whitepapers. In today’s guest post, he will share the value he’s experienced and how you can see similar results.
Jordan Cutler and Micah Lerner ∙ 335 LIKES
Nicola Ballotta
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Apr 29
Great advice, Jordan. I have to say, reading whitepapers is also a great way to learn more about writing. Thanks for the mention 🙂
Kalpak
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Apr 29
Excellent points. Aptly put.
Education Disrupted: Teaching and Learning in An AI World
May 14

Google's Developer Conference: An Expansive Commitment to AI Capabilities in Education

Google is making a significant investment in this space, and it will likely do a lot of good
At today’s Developers Conference, Google rolled out many additional features. I’d say they were more along the lines of substantial improvements and new applications of existing tools and concepts, but they nonetheless will have huge implications for both business and education.
Stefan Bauschard ∙ 9 LIKES
Noahpinion
May 11

The death (again) of the internet as we know it

A few big changes are making the online world a more boring place to hang out.
The internet as we know it has already died once. In the 2010s, the rise of smartphones and mass social media (Twitter/Facebook/Instagram) caused what internet veterans refer to as an Eternal September event, for the entire internet. “Eternal September” is an old slang term for when a bunch of normal folk…
Noah Smith ∙ 543 LIKES
Jaundiced Baboon
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May 12
Regarding spam/slop, I think a good solution could be to have social media accounts charge some small amount of money to make posts (say $0.001). Would be trivial for average users but could kill the business model of spammers who rely on putting out massive quantities of posts to only make a tiny return per post.
Although I'm sure people would complain about this even if it worked
Arnold Kling
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May 12
My takeaway from Noah's essay is that some Internet companies can only increase revenue by worsening the user experience. It's hard to believe that this will end well for them.
Chamath Palihapitiya
May 14

2023 Annual Letter

Social Capital Performance Summary To the supporters and friends of Social Capital: This is the sixth of our annual letters where we share our reflections, key observations, and learnings over the past year, including how the economic and technological trends of the year have shaped our thinking and our investment portfolio.
Chamath Palihapitiya ∙ 126 LIKES
Calvin Marks
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May 15
For Fund II, how is the DPI higher than TVPI?
Jeffrey Carter
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7d
Thank you for writing. We know that government always has an incentive to spend money on new technology. In the case of AI, do we think US spending will make any difference in success versus failure? We know if they regulate AI, it will hurt.
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
3:12 AM

Another Flag for Alito

Don't Despair, Vote
My God. Tonight, more reporting from Jodi Kantor, joined by Aric Toler and Judy Tate at The New York Times, on Justice Alito’s flag-flying practices. It turns out that in the summer of 2023, the Alitos flew an "Appeal to Heaven" flag at their summer beach house in New Jersey. The Times reports that “Three photographs … along with accounts from a half-do…
Joyce Vance ∙ 2065 LIKES
Tasmin Gardner
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12h
Thank you Joyce. We cannot give up, no matter how high the hurdles seem. I believe women will lift Biden to victory, and hopefully, give Dems the wins they need to win the House and d Senate. Then, we can clean house!!
L.D.Michaels
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12h
The following are extracts from the Code of Conduct that binds all federal judges in the U.S. except those on the Supreme Court, which has refused to adopt the Code.
Samuel Alito has crossed the line on the prohibitions below, with emphasis in Canon 5 on his overt endorsement of Donald Trump and his claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Code of Conduct for United States Judges:
An independent and honorable judiciary is indispensable to justice in our society. A judge should maintain and enforce high standards of conduct and should personally observe those standards, so that the integrity and independence of the judiciary may be preserved.
Canon 2A. An appearance of impropriety occurs when reasonable minds, with knowledge of all the relevant circumstances disclosed by a reasonable inquiry, would conclude that the judge’s honesty, integrity, impartiality, temperament, or fitness to serve as a judge is impaired.
C. Disqualification. (1) A judge shall disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances in which: (a) the judge has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding;
Canon 5: A Judge Should Refrain From Political Activity A. General Prohibitions. A judge should not: (1) make speeches for a political organization or candidate, or publicly endorse or oppose a candidate for public office;
The Free Press
Apr 24

Meet the California Progressives Trying to Cancel Affordable Housing. Plus. . .

Columbia goes remote. Google gets serious. And more.
Today from The Free Press, Google fights back against the activists, Biden does away with due process, and more. But first, let me pass the mic over to Ben Kawaller, who describes the latest installment of his video series, “Ben Meets America!” I have lived in or…
Oliver Wiseman ∙ 507 LIKES
Sydney
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Apr 24
As a woman, I am continually flabbergasted by this administration’s policies against women. Title IX is a bedrock for us, for student athletes. They do not care for us or represent us.
Unsaint Finbar
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Apr 24
If I had boys, I would not send them to a school filled with left wing idiots. They would go State schools in a conservative State.
This is a cliche, but how is it that left wing people break everything they touch, then lie and call it progress? Adulthood is in part about owning mistakes. It is about sincerity. It is about improving the mind, and improving the world. Why does this never happen once this zombifying virus takes hold? Thereafter it is roughly equal measures BS, patronizing moralistic postures, and steady decay in everything.
Trump is innocent with respect to all the charges in all of his trials. The current one in New York, as I understand it, is about campaign finance violations. The FEC already looked at it and found no wrong doing. The whole thing is a cooked up fraud that should embarass any lawyers still capable of embarassment.
And lets not forget that Hillary operated a server that itself was illegal, that plainly was intended to avoid compliance with the Federal Records Act (for the seemingly obvious reason that she was conducting illegal transactions), then deleted 40,000 emails, ran Bleechbit on her servers, and physically smashed both her hard drives and cell phones, to make any investigation impossible. This AFTER all this was subpoenaed by Congress.
If you do not understand that we have a two tiered system of "justice"--which really amounts to two tiers of injustice, in which one set of people is not charged for things they did do, and another IS charged for things they did not do--then all I can say is I assume you are wrong about nearly everything in your personal life too. I pity those around you, because you are out of touch with the currents of Life itself. None of this is complicated.
Karlstack
May 21

Exclusive: Scandal at America's Top Science Fair

''Honestly ISEF is probably going to sweep this under the rug unless it comes in the news. Someone needs to send it to CNN or something.''
The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is the world’s largest and most prestigious science fair. ISEF 2024 took place last week (May 11-17) at the Los Angeles Convention Center. https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/ Krish Pai won first place in the environmental engineering division, which came with a prize of $55,000 and the
Christopher Brunet ∙ 96 LIKES
CaliforniaLost
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2d
Future Harvard Presidents have to start somewhere...
Alice K.
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2d
This reminds me of a student I had in Precalc (dark time in life, reduced to HS teaching, albeit outstanding district, for a while, wondering how my life had gone so wrong - long story I would not share with NYT reporter but everyone would know some of the names involved).
Anyway, this child's father (single parent) was insanely set on him being a genius, a prodigy, and pushed him to take Precalc as a 6th grader. The kid had the performance down. He would confidently draw out diagrams and spout physics formulas, act like a "genius." The problem was that my B.S. was in physics and he did not know what he was talking about, was just aping vocabulary. I complained to admin that he should under no circumstances be admitted to Precalc but I was overridden.
He could not understand the material; no one wanted to work with him because he brought their scores down (Common Core forced group work and teacher evaluations depended on it, insane). The child had a nervous breakdown at age 11 and had to leave school.
Now I wonder if I should have reported the father to CPS, yet the government seems like such a dystopian last case option. That poor kid is going to have to find his way. (My own mom was schizophrenic. We found our way.)

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