Hello friends, Most of the tech press is still rehashing WWDC, but I have some really interesting non-Apple tech news for you today. My big story is a Pew Research Center survey about how people encounter news on social media. And it's not good news, but not for the reason you might expect. We also have a possible legitimate use for Blockchain to protect…

Well, folks, I promised you I’d be working on interviews on Things of Internet this year. And what a fine way to start this will be. Utsav Mamoria is a dear friend who runs a short-format travel podcast called Postcards from Nowhere. It’s a travel podcast but rather than give influencer-style clickbait about places to visit, Utsav encourages you to slow …

Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here. Google just lost its first antitrust trial, as a San Francisco jury returned a decision that Google harmed rival Epic Games, maker of the popular video game Fortnite, in the $48 billion dollar app store Android market…

As formerly (thankfully!) striking writers justifiably emphasized, AI is transforming Hollywood. It already has. The major streaming services have long used artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance overall viewing experiences, accelerating cord cutting – and fundamentally transforming Hollywood economics - in the …

Next Week in The Sequence: Edge 329: The second installment of our series about fine-tuning covers the different types of fine-tuning methods, MIT’s research around multi-task prompt tuning and the Lamini platform. Edge 330: We discuss DSPy, a new language model programming framework that represents an alternative to LangChain an…

I have just got back from an epic month of travelling. I have been to Trinec in the Czech Republic twice, flying into Katovice and then Krakow airports, and then driving two hours. Its the first t…

Members, Just a quick tactical note. This will be informal and concise. About 2 Months ago during the SVB crisis back in March, I found opportunities to help our folks here to take advantage of tactical disloc…

We took part in a quick rapid fire interview with Larry Cheung, CFA covering AI, geopolitics, financial markets, and other areas we frequently speak about. Larry Cheung is a CFA Charterholder, professional Investment Strategist, and the Author of one of Substack's most popular finance newsletters called "Letters from Larry: U.S. & China Investment Strategy." In this ne…

The Best Buy PS5 restock date and time in July 2022 will come to you via my PS5 restock Twitter tracker – follow and turn on notifications. That’s because I’m now tracking where and when the PlayStation 5 is in stock at retailers in the US, including Best Buy, where there has been a PS5 restock nationwide once in July. Now that demand for the Sony cons…

Welcome to the first edition of the Weekly Mape Update! This newsletter will cover the latest updates from the Maple Finance ecosystem, including protocol announcements, ongoing governance proposals, and more.

Gilmore Girls Corner Which season is the best season to watch Gilmore Girls? We know what you’re thinking. Fall, of course. The series literally screams autumn. Well, not for everyone. With summer upon us, I decided to go digging for some summer-related Gilmore trivia. According to an article that Nicole Pomarico wrote for

Gilmore Girls Corner This week’s episode is for all the people that can’t take criticism very well, for the people who cry at work, for the people who’ve always tried their best… You get the picture. Three years ago, Jenny Singer wrote an article in

While we haven’t posted in a while, rest assured that we have been thinking and processing quite a bit of information on our favorite subject, the definition of investing, and its legal implications. Against this backdrop came the Congressional Hearing,

How to: Identify a good experiment opportunity How to: Get buy-in for your experiment How to: Run an experiment ← You’re Here How to: Report your experiment’s findings

Image by Janis Ozolins Janis Ozolins is one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter. He illustrates thoughts and quotes that hit home for anyone in a creative pursuit. Like this tweet: His audience has doubled in the short time I've been following his work and it's all thanks to his approach to pairing thoughtful ideas with simple, striking illustration…

It’s hard to believe that only a week and a half has gone by since we first set out! Or that we’re 1/3 done with the trip. The former figure seems small; the latter large. It’s simultaneously as if we’ve been traveling forever… but have only just begun. Strange.

Yesterday, after a morning of work, we visited our first Smithsonian: the Air & Space Museum! There’s an impressive collection there of, well, air and space things… moon landers, space stations, ICBMs, airplanes, a Wright Flyer replica, a Hubble replica, and so on and on and on. (So much… and yet most sections were closed for renovations!)

It’s Monday and Rosa (one of my roommates) and I are dicing yellow onions and mincing garlic. She takes a sip of her hazy IPA as I crack open a sour ale. We say cheers to surviving Monday and I start chopping dino kale as she drains and rinses the chickpeas. Everything is in its place before we turn on the stove.

under the influence This post began on some Sunday, inspired by a Vuori ad I saw on Instagram that came the morning after someone mentioned the brand to me during a fleeting party conversation. The suspiciously timed ad led to “Shop now” where I proceeded to scroll through pages of women’s athleisure, deciding whether or not the brand’s aesthetic was one…

I’ve been wondering why we listen to music. When in my own room, I listen to music to find new artists and songs, and find things to share on this newsletter, or create a certain mood, or because I’m feeling a certain way, or as a form of escapism, or sometimes, just because it’s more fun than folding laundry in silence.

The reasons I started this newsletter are mostly selfish: I used to listen to a ton of music at work, but my new job doesn't really allow me to do that. Drastically decreasing my average listening hours per week sucks because, like many of you, music gives me life.

That’s a tattoo I saw on someone this last weekend: serendipity It was in cursive and located somewhere on a torso, I don’t remember. At a music festival, the opportunities to find serendipity are boundless. What is serendipity anyway but a lucky combination of good timing and lack of expectation. Here are two serendipitous moments from last weekend:

Last night I dreamed I was with a group of people I didn’t know so of course I kept to myself. We were in an airport waiting to fly to Russia to go skiing. I became aware of the dream when we were on a tarmac, then suddenly inside on a series of stairwells zigzagging down to a floor that was built into a cliff. The Russia gate was stuffed into a corner,…

If this week’s recs have a theme, it’s the disaster of neocolonialism. But there’s a motivating clarity in all these offerings. News in context In a lively but devastating interview on residential schools, John Kane (Resistance Radio, Let’s Talk Native

arts Artistic director Ahmed Tobasi speaks about the attacks on Freedom Theatre in Jenin. Background here; donate here. labor Parts One and Two of Book Post’s must-read report on the censorship and punishment of cultural workers in recent months. media