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…

A story that happened midway through my Canary Island adventure of 2019. Things often don’t turn out the way we’d planned. However, those things do often turn into the best stories!

ChatStrike is a startup in the recruiting technology space centered around, you guessed it, chat. When Cameron Levy first approached me to work on a chat application for recruiters, choosing the right technology stack took serious consideration. At Platonic Systems, we default to purely functional programming unless there are compelling reasons not to. …

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💡What’s in it for Me: Get Smarter in 5 Minutes Hi everyone 👋. Welcome back to ‘The Weekly Recap’, where I curate a reading list of insightful articles, market updates & bite-sized learnings nuggets to get you caught up for the week. If you're reading this and haven't signed up, join the 260+ others by clicking below, and to the regular readers, thank y…

I am a combination of tired and hungover I cannot adequately describe so let’s get to it. Micro Level, Kansas (W, 75-72 OT) SWEEP This is fun, Texas should do it more often. I watched the end of the game late due to work, and based upon the length of the DVR recording I suspected the game was heading to OT as I told my fiancee good night and went back to th…

The roster construction is being handled in other pieces, this is going to be just about recruiting and thus fairly short because lolllllll I am not the guy for this. As per my yearly reminder, if you want to keep up with recruiting follow guys like

It’s 70 degrees in DFW as I type this recap, which is decidedly not “Christmas” weather but I got to drive with the windows down on my way to pick up al pastor tacos from a Mexican meat market, so all-in-all I’d call it an unexpected bonus in the waning days of a hellscape year. Much in the same vein, Texas basketball being ranked in the top 10 while Lo…

So, how has your day been? Good? Anything noteworthy happen recently? Yea, me neither. When I wrote the ACU recap, I didn’t have any inside information on what may happen with Shaka Smart. I didn’t realize I would effectively nail how the scenario would play out, and I wish I was half this accurate when it comes to picking stocks. This is one of the most us…

An emergency podcast on the escalating pandemic crisis in Indonesia. Dr Sana Jaffrey is the new director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), the organisation founded by Sidney Jones in Jakarta. She is also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC., for whom she is writing about Indon…

In this episode we speak to Ian Wilson (@iwilson69) about his research of over a decade on the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), an Islamist group that challenges Indonesia’s democratic status quo. We talk about how to distinguish the FPI from other militant groups and Ian explains his concept of “morality racketeering”. We end by covering some curious gan…

I have been the storyteller of my dad’s non-Hodgkins, mantle-cell lymphoma since he was diagnosed in early 2019 to his extended community of friends and family. It’s a difficult story for me to tell. It requires delicacy, nuance, and just the right amount of revelation and firmness to share it in a way where everyone knows enough information and (hopefu…

Note: This is the fourth post in a new series I am now titling [Jason’s] Unfolding Queer Cosmology. The name has changed to better reflect the specificity of the Queer Cosmology. It is [mine]. [I] references that it also is not mine alone. Read “The First Post” here.

Vlog: Art Camp for Comrades!

A note: This post talks frankly about bullying and queerness. This autumn my dad asked me to start a project with him. I suggested we write letters to each other based on how he used to write me cards as a kid. We’ve sent a few back and forth. It’s been beautifully healing.