“My friends bought 34 acres of Ohio wilderness. While hiking one day, they stumbled upon a dark, dripping cavern—and decided to pour their life savings into it. Today, it's one of the world's most profitable airbnbs. The waitlist is years long. Here's the story...” ~ learn more
“An AI (also known as… get this… @divinediarrhea) that not only develops a presence/personality in the digital world, but in our lowly old physical realm as well. Cool… so where does crypto come into it? Simple: anyone that owns the $CHAOS token → owns a part of the Chaos robot.” ~ learn more
“Our proteins, by contrast, are made of left-handed amino acids. This combination is found not just in humans, but in every species on Earth. Scientists are still debating how evolution landed on this arrangement. In theory, a mirror cell — with left-handed DNA and right-handed proteins — could carry out all the biochemical reactions required to stay alive.” ~ learn more
“Similar to a peacock mating dance, smaller, regional and specialized retail media networks like Macy’s, Lowe’s and Home Depot have spent the last few months rebranding and retooling their offerings, hoping to catch the attention and budgets of media buyers in a sea of competitors. “ ~ learn more
“An eMarketer forecast maintains the e-commerce giant’s advertising revenue will top $67 billion by 2025, and earlier this week at Amazon Publisher Services’ summit, it revealed new features (it hopes) will help its edge closer to that number.” ~ learn more
The New Yorker takes aim and fires. “In 1873, Mark Twain co-wrote the novel “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today,” which satirized an era that was marked by inequality, greed, and moral decay but was painted in a veneer of abundance and progress. Industrialists made fortunes in oil, steel, and shipping even as millions suffered poverty and exploitation. Today, health care is where the money is. New technologies and…
“To start, it's been quite a shock. every conversation i had yesterday revolved around it. it affected my sleep. probably some anomalies in oura data for certain SF neighborhoods last night.” ~ learn more
“It’s different now. When I manage spreadsheets, I don’t want to manipulate formulas anymore. Instead, I want to instruct the computer as I would explain to a colleague : “run the correlations on these variables to see if anything meaningful pops out, then plot it, & add it to the deck.” ~ learn more
“2010s; build software that solves a problem and sell it to other businesses. 2024; build software that buys businesses. Whether you start with models and use acquisitions for data, compete with PE firms, or create a tech-enabled rollup - the most interesting part isn't the technology, it's how these deals get structured and funded.” ~ learn more
“I was labeled a “fake citizen” because while I had written an article all about it, I hadn’t actually done anything about it. Fair point, actually.” ~ learn more