Week Commencing 10 July 2023
Essay - How to Do Great Work (Paul Graham)
Without question the best thing I’ve read all year. I wish I could have read this 8 years ago when I started my career… Read it ASAP
Book - The Case Against Reality (Donald Hoffman)
I have a lot of thoughts about this one. Review coming soon.
Blog Post - The Case for Immigration (Erik Torenberg)
Podcast - Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, Why Books Don’t Work (Dwarkesh Patel)
Article - Nvidia in talks to be an anchor investor in Arm IPO (FT)
It’s pretty clear at this point that Nvidia is going to take over the world, right? I saw a Citi analyst suggest that Nvidia will have >90% market share of AI chips which is insane. To be clear, nobody should ever listen to anything that equity research analysts say, ever, but it’s clear that the majority of the initial value creation from the AI boom is a giant pass through to Nvidia.
Blog Post - Grading the economic schools of thought (Noahpinion)
Blog Post - Medical A.I. is on a tear (Eric Topol)