“Wisdom is earned, not given. When other people give us the answer, it belongs to them and not us. While we might achieve the outcome we desire, it comes from dependence, not insight.” | learn more
This is part 23 of Hubert Horan’s quest to highlight the bear case for Uber. “The press is still refusing to depict Uber accurately, as a rotting corpse.” Reading this forced me to look up their most recent financials and […]
“The co-working company has a plan to survive the pandemic and the aftermath of its disastrous IPO attempt.” | learn more
The dust has settled a bit since OpenAI dropped their AI language model GPT-3 on the world. This is a deep dive from Inside Business that covers a lot of ground including, “How will GPT-3 affect different industries?” | learn more
She’s been accused for years of running a catch and release program for criminals. “After looters caused mayhem on the Magnificent Mile early Monday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and police Superintendent David Brown pointed fingers at a now-familiar target: Cook […]
This is the story of one guy’s day during Chicago’s most recent looting spree. He throws a brick through the Burberry store window, throws another brick at a cop (on video), gets arrested and heads to bond court where he’s […]
“The 40 rap elder statespeople we’ve selected and ranked — whittled down from a pool of 100 candidates — represent every corner of the culture, from the forever-respected lyrical technicians to those currently running up streaming numbers.” | learn more
The world’s favorite banana until the 1960s, the Gros Michel, was quite different from our bananas today. It lost its dominance due to a fungus. That blew my mind. Now our Cavendish banana is under a similar threat. | learn more
“Here’s a question: how many times do you have to riffle a deck of cards before it is completely shuffled?” | learn more
“This wave of hype is centered around “yield farming,” wherein investors chase massive profits by supplying liquidity to various interlocking on-chain financial protocols.” | learn more