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Here’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful!
Blog posts from the past week
- Burning the Library of Alexandria to the ground: How one man killed Google search.
- A contrarian doesn’t always object: “A contrarian isn’t one who always objects—that’s a conformist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently from the ground up and resists pressure to conform.”
- Sales is what you do when you don’t know how to market and brand: “Sales, you have to go and ask. Marketing, it comes to you.”
- Professionals speak up: “A professional, though, brings insight and reputation to the work. If they’re not speaking up, then they’ve sacrificed the very expertise and authority they worked so hard to earn. When a professional disagrees, alters the plan, or refuses to go along, they are doing the truly hard work of being a professional.”
- But it feels like play to you: “Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.”
- Busyness is a sign of wealth?: “It used to be that leisure was a sign of wealth. People with more money spent their time playing tennis or sailing in the bay or sipping white wine during lunch at the golf club. But that’s changed. Now busyness is a sign of wealth.”
Noteworthy articles that I read
- GPT-o3 Just Replaced Online Courses: This video showed an amazing way to use ChatGPT to create courses for you to learn from. You can dream up the perfect course for a subject you want to learn, and then have that course instantly and free. It’s a great concept.
- The Death of Niche AI Tools: Related to the video above, this article explains why single-use AI tools are silly, since the big AI tools (like ChatGPT) can do everything you need.
Books that I’m reading
- I finally finished reading “Judo Strategy“, about applying some principles from Judo to business.
- I started reading “Nexus” from Yuval Noah Harari, which is “A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI“. It’s good so far, but I question his use of the word “brief”…
Tech Rec
Stealing the idea from my friends at the Tech Talk Y’all podcast, I’ll drop in some tech recommendation every week as well.
- Anki: I’ve talked a lot about the Anki learning tool on here, and I still use it every day. This is post is a good intro as to why and I hope you’ll check it out.
It’s amazing, and I encourage you to check it out.
I hope you found some value in this. If you ever have questions, ideas, or disagreements regarding anything I write, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
