fun facts
A short sampler of hip-hop history and culture.
Google celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop. ~ learn more
Tag: google
to your health
You can now use your phone to ID skin conditions.
Here’s a cool new feature of Google’s mobile app. “Describing an odd mole or rash on your skin can be hard to do with words alone,” said Google in a statement. “Fortunately, there’s a new way Lens can help, with […]
tech, startups, internet
One Googlers’ internal memo: we have no moat, and neither does OpenAI.
“But the uncomfortable truth is, we aren’t positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI. While we’ve been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch. I’m talking, of course, about open source. Plainly put, they […]
better doing
Thoughts on goal setting.
“The reason I hate OKRs is that they are often the wrong answer for startups. OKRs are just a form of a goal — they make the goal specific and measurable and all the other things a goal should be. […]
tech, startups, internet
Google’s traffic acquisition cost.
I was reminded by a friend this week that Google does indeed have to pay for traffic. Not only do they pay out to properties who run their ads via AdSense, but they also write huge multi-billion dollar checks every […]
tech, startups, internet
It’s all about that Chain of Thought.
An emergent behavior of large language models: they are better able to respond to “chain of thought” prompts to reason step by step and derive more accurate answers. Google researchers: “We will show that sufficiently large language models can generate […]
thoughts of food
Oat milk is coming for almond milk.
A chart of google search volume since 2015. Did you know there’s a seasonal trend to almond milk? It spikes at New Years and mostly declines throughout the year. | learn more
fun facts
It’s a good day to be 5’ 7″.
A brief Googling suggests Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, Olof Scholz, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are all 5’7, it’s an unprecedented consolidation of European power in the hands of short kings
tech, startups, internet
How YouTube created the attention economy.
“The site has been compensating “creators” since 2007, a scant two years after it launched, and only a year after Google acquired the company for a price tag of $1.65 billion.” | learn more
better doing
Less obvious frameworks.
From Chris Paik, a variety of ways to think about businesses and markets. I like that these aren’t the most obvious ones. Also that it’s a Google Doc filled with comments from the internet. | learn more