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…

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🍎 App Writing in a notebook makes it much easier to stay focused than writing on a computer. Enter Paper Website, an app that converts your handwritten content into a website. 🏺 History Fordlandia was a startup city built in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest by Henry Ford. Great video about it

Summary Creating a Protocol Ambassador Program Discussion about adding new collateral to Anchor Restructuring the Inverse DAO Mysterious Alpha from Concave? Numbers at a glance DAO member profile — @MrBrownWhale Opportunities to Contribute Welcome to the Starship!

🚨 New Article 🚨 - The Inside Word #6 - Captain FI G’day, Money Pals! In my 6th edition of The Inside Word, I had the pleasure of having a chin wag with the hugely inspirational Captain FI. For those that don’t know, Captain FI is a retired air transport pilot who was able to call it quits at the ripe old age of 30 after reaching financial independence …

There is a gap between quarterly planning and daily communication, where business efficiency goes to die. Quarterly planning has its uses. Without it, you're inviting misalignment. You risk your team focusing on the wrong tasks to hit the wrong goals.

Coffee feels like one of the more notorious metrics for our personal finances. More so the thing than the drink: the signified cup-of-coffee-object. There are whole genres of memes dealing with it. In some, coffee is a symbol for reckless spending that stands in the way of you buying that new car or making your next big investment. I.e., "think of all t…

After months of preparations, we’re finally ready to introduce HolySharks — An NFT Metaverse on Binance Smart Chain !🥳 HolySharks builds an NFT game on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) that allows players to seek rewards and experience in the grand world of Holyworld.

Vender nunca é tão fácil como em Dezembro! Quer dizer, a menos que tu vendas Coca Colas no Deserto, pois esse já todos sabemos que é o melhor Negócio de Sempre, a seguir ao Forex, claro! Preparem-se pois todas as métricas mudam este mês! Infelizmente vamos ter que pagar os CPM's um bocadinho mais caros, mas como a Taxa de Conversão tende a aumentar pode s…

If 2020 is a booming year for DeFi, in 2021, we have witnessed a new wave of NFT Gaming integrating to metaverse with such remarkable success. The reason is that the key features of it are entertaining, and users have opportunities to receive rewards and earn money from involving in that metaverse world. Besides, NFT items can be used to exchange, buy a…

Introduction Sorry that I have been missing for the past week and a day! I have been enjoying my break, I hope that you all did too! Advent and Hanukkah season has started! Time to get festive! Feel free to subscribe to make sure you don’t miss anything:

Hello, Logain Last week's episode of The Wheel of Time, "The Dragon Reborn," had a lot of excitement. It introduced us fully to the False Dragon Logain Ablar and showed a bit of the war in Ghealdan we've been hearing about in the series. Plus Nynaeve bonded with Warders, Egwene and Perrin got cozy with the Tuatha'an, and Mat and Rand encountered more dan…

First, apologies to my subscribers for not posting for a while. I just had cataract surgery. Before that, my vision was less than optimal, and it was difficult for me to see a computer keyboard well enough to type. But I’m all better now, and I have several ideas for posts, both fun and serious. To start off, here’s one that’s fun.

Playing around a little bit a few weeks back with the some (visual?) wordplay on a keyboard ⌨️ Not sure what (if anything) I’ll do with these but figured maybe…

An Attitude of Gratitude: Luke 17:11-18 One of the stories that we have highlighted in the past has been from the book of Luke in the New Testament where Jesus heals ten lepers. Because leprosy was a contagious bacterial disease that would damage nerves and disfigure its host with skin sores, infections, loss of fingers and toes, lepers had to stay far a…

Something that dawned on me in the past few days is our participation in happiness. We can actively participate in happiness or we can passively participate in happiness, although both are equally as valid, sometimes we need to push ourselves to actively participate.