“This week, people have started gaining access to it via the waiting list. It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet.” ~ learn more
The concept of emergence is a few decades old at least. It’s fascinating. From an article I shared last year: “When electrons or atoms or individuals or societies interact with one another or their environment, the collective behavior of the whole is […]
“A friend of mine was recently evaluating job offers and one was clearly a startup that was “going bad”. It was clear to me but not to them; I figured I would write a post spelling out some things I […]
Continuing with the “moving things around” theme: Here’s a profile of the tech startup Flexport, a tech-powered freight forwarder who was valued (overvalued?) at $8 billion last year. “It has designs on a bigger prize: owning the data layer for […]
Richard cofounded a tech company in the trucking space a couple years ago. He left pretty quickly, maybe a year in, and now runs a content marketing agency. So he likes to write! “Recently, I’ve been reflecting on my time […]
Thanks to this publication’s EU focus, this article is not about all the same folks who regularly make it into my news feed. ~ learn more
“Mercedes/Daimler plans to start manufacturing this truck in 2024, and it uses lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.” The last line of this article felt like wisdom: “Refined lithium may be in short supply today, but the cure for high prices […]
Plastic is ubiquitous but also somewhat complicated. Toss ‘bio’ into the mix and there’s some explanation required. “Bioplastic can mean that a material is biobased. Bioplastic can also mean that a material is biodegradable.” This short article can help you get it all straight. ~ learn […]
A dossier of AI applications, updated daily. ~ learn more
Rob May made the point a few weeks ago that generative ai startups are mostly a bad vc bet. Don’t let that fool you into thinking he’s not betting — “I believe that making bets in markets like this, while many […]