He has a great example of a research and charting task that he wanted to assign to AI, but couldn’t for reasons he explains. It voiced a lot of my personal frustrations with LLMs at the moment. “We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now?” ~ learn more
Jason Cohen celebrates copying styles. The analogy extends to business. “In America we’re trained that all copying is bad; of course plagiarism is, but perhaps we’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater.” ~ learn more
“When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.” ~ learn more
“Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop are going global with big ambitions.” ~ learn more
“I looked at publicly available finances of (4) types of consumer branded companies to get an idea their business models and who is actually making money: CPG houses — P&G, Unilever, Nestle, L’Oreal; Softgoods houses — Luxxotica, VF Corp, LVMH; Softgoods single brands — Lululemon, YETI, LEVIs=; DTC softgood single brands — FIGs, Warby Parker, Allbirds, Gymshark” ~ learn more
“Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.” ~ learn more
An interesting way to think about the distribution of talent. “It’s very difficult to run a high-IQ civilization of 330 million on just 100,000 high-IQ workers–the pyramid of ability extends only so far.” ~ learn more
A reporter for The Verge spends time with the SEO operators who have long worked at squeezing money out of the internet. “I came to understand that, since the dawn of the internet, there have been people attempting to manipulate search and then people decrying those manipulations as the end of search’s ability to be useful. It works in cycles. People doing SEO find loopholes in the algorithm; critics complain…
“Discover the allure of the Firefly Petunia. A beautiful plant by day, it unveils mesmerizing luminescence after dusk.” ~ learn more
“Police in Brazil have detained a woman suspected of wheeling a dead man, who she said was her uncle, to a bank to withdraw a four-figure loan.” ~ learn more