2025-02-07
Worth your time
A deep dive on how a clothing brand prices their clothes.
Ethan Mollick on Deep Research. I’ve been working with it quite a bit this week and generally speaking been impressed with it.
Musings
“All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen” — Sidney Lumet, via The Browser
An underrated truth about the modern world is that everyone reads their @mentions and sees who likes their posts
The Luka trade is a reminder that even at the highest levels, mistakes genuinely do happen. You would think that evaluating the market for one of the 5 best basketball players in the world would be an efficient market… but it appears that it wasn’t!
Reflecting on the ROI of marketing efforts I’ve done recently
Print isn’t that useful unless it’s with a writer with a voice (e.g., a substack)
Audio and video really make an impact. You want to be inside someone’s EarPods.
Speaking at trade shows is helpful in expanding your network
Asking good questions is more important than ever
On the modern internet, one should never be self congratulatory. It’s totally okay to accept compliments from your audience, but the moment you start saying or implying you’re great at something or have it figured out, you begin to sew the seeds of your downfall.
2025-01-31
Worth your time
Rohit on AGI.
Noah Smith on China Talk. Interesting throughout but what I enjoyed most was him talking about the types of posts he writes:
1. Things he already understands that are topical (he can just sit down and write)
2. Things where he is going out and doing the research because he thinks something should be better understood
3. Things he is passively interested in and just collects links as he goes, so when it becomes topical, he can go back and find those things and quickly write them.
I think I can adopt some of this into my own work.
The short case for Nvidia, but also a fantastic explainer on how different approaches to AI work. I now understand what makes Groq special.
Musings
Goals:
2025-01-17
Worth your time
Uri Bram on Noble Lies
Zheng Dong Wang on productivity. I’ll be reading through each of the documents on his list at some point this year.
Why did everything take so long?
Principles by Nabeel Qureshi
Things I learned
Pine needle tea has more than 100 percent of the vitamin C of orange juice — Nautilus
The value of returned purchases in the United States would make it the 16th largest economy in the world — Rohit
Musings
“Great problems have to be discovered; often the solution of the problem is only a tiny part of the story, most of it is really about discovering the problem.” — From Michael Nielsen, ~Quick thoughts on research:~ (found via Zheng Dong Wang)