“But, at least for now, the bank is only allowing its wealthier clients access to the volatile asset: The bank considers it suitable for people with “an aggressive risk tolerance” who have at least $2 million in assets held by […]
Last September Microstrategy became the first public company to deploy their treasury assets ($500MM) into Bitcoin. In this interview, founder and CEO Michael Saylor explains why. He connects the dots between his large personal bet on the big tech giants almost […]
I’m earning 10% interest lending dollar-backed stablecoins. How is that possible? Peter Johnson from Jump Capital explains. | learn more
Funding unmotivated teachers and students at low rank schools is a bad idea, says this article. “More important, at the margin, we are sending people to college who do not belong there. This is demonstrated by low graduation rates as well […]
“This is the tale of one wine brand, two vintners, and the unlikely democratization of a historically snobby industry.” | learn more
“For the past three years, Dan Pashman of The Sporkful podcast has been on something of a mission: to invent a new pasta shape. All of Pashman’s hard work has paid off with the debut of cascatelli pasta…” | learn more
“Bacteriophages (or phages) have been in the toolbox of medical treatments for almost a century. The use of phages to treat infection was mostly confined to eastern European countries, while in the Western world we abandoned their use a long […]
“One emerging field that exemplifies this transformation of science is ‘protein nanotechnology’, where nanotechnologists use proteins to design and construct microstructures and nanostructures, thereby imitating life.” | learn more
This short Naval Ravikant post posits that good explanations, “should make risky and narrow predictions.” Part of his point is that tons of things are falsifiable in fact without leading to progress. Example: “If you eat 1kg of grass, it […]
This is a written Q&A interview—maybe my favorite format. I have a new appreciation for the depth of his interests. “His biggest intellectual interest is the idea of technological progress — what it means, why it happens, and how to […]