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Stein's Law
1922 peace dollar high relief
Himalayan Bowls
How Generations of Experts Built U.S. Power
Russia’s Largest Bank Sberbank Launches Structured Bonds Tied to Bitcoin
Eye on the Market
Michael Cembalest
Isaac Asimov The Last Question
Isaac Asimov
Bitcoin Energy Value
Bitcoin Production Cost
Trading View
Google Notebook LM
Creatify - Generate engaging marketing videos with AI-powered tools
Crazy Stupid Tech - With AI, the Future of Augmented Reality is in Your Ears
Om Malik
Journal of Controversial Ideas
Hicamp - Everywhere you want to camp
Verve - the most personal online grocery platform
Phia - best prices on fashion
Jony Ive and OpenAI Make a Long-Shot Bet to Kill the iPhone
Bloomberg
Build on Stripe with LLMs
Google introduces Shop with AI Mode with price tracking, agentic checkout, and virtual try-on
Ivan Mehta
Windows is getting support for the ‘USB-C of AI apps’
The Agentic Web and Original Sin
Ben Thompson
Tally Stick
The Tontine Coffee House - History of Finance
Weekly Commentary: Asian-Crisis-in-Reverse Feel
CFA Franc
How are US consumers and firms responding to tariffs?
Apollo Global Management
Impulse Labs Induction Stove top
NOVA Food App
The NOVA classification system: A critical perspective in food science
Rodrigo Rodrigues Petrus, Paulo José do Amaral Sobral, Carmen Cecília Tadini, Cintia Bernardo Gonçalves
Troll Kids - Robust outdoor clothing for children
Google - NotebookLM
The Intrinsic Values Test
Ecology Project International
BioLumen - Monch Monch - Absorb Sugar in the Gut
The Aztecs and the atlatl
The government doesn’t understand Meta
Alex Heath
Lookup Your Podcast RSS Feed
CBO - The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2025 to 2035
Stablecoins: Payments without intermediaries
A16Z
Foreign direct investment in China falls to lowest level in decades
Plastic List
Menlo Circus Club
Round Square - an international community of 260+ schools in 50 countries that collaborate on character education around six themes
Octalysis
Mode Mobile - Mining on the Smartphone
Bitcoin Infrastructure That Scales
Negative power pricing in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO)
How DC densified
Works In Progress
Exclusive: AWS, Accenture and Anthropic partner to accelerate enterprise AI adoption
Venture Beat
Nine Interesting Thoughts From Jensen Huang
EE Times
Veed - Make better videos faster. AI-powered video creation for teams
Poly Market - 2025 Recession
OpenAI Model context protocol (MCP)
Alternative Airlines
Systems Correctness Practices at AWS Leveraging Formal and Semi-formal Methods
The Studies Show - Episode 67: Seed oils
Stuart Ritchie and Tom Chivers
Targeting ageing with rapamycin and its derivatives in humans: a systematic review
Deborah J W Lee, MD, Ajla Hodzic Kuerec, MD, Prof Andrea B Maier, MD
YouTube Transcript
The S&P vs. major international markets (past six months):
Function Health - Own Your Health
Zeroe Caviar - Vegan / Vegetarian Caviar
Maple AI - Design & Create Intelligent Solutions - We build AI, Web, Apps, Core Platform and provide our own AI solutions to digitisz & automate your businesses
Alpine Touring - Spearhead Traverse
Energy prices - how the UK compares
Gareth Redmond-King
Turning Britain's Unused Wind Power into Bitcoin
Curtailcoin
Anthropic Economic Index
Anthropic
Gabriel's horn
Obscura VPN
Why UCIe is Key to Connectivity for Next-Gen AI Chiplets
Letizia Giuliano
Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System With Collisionless Embedding Table
Youlong Cheng
The Speed of Human Thought Lags Far Behind Your Internet Connection, Study Finds
Carl Zimmer
AI Won’t Replace Subject Matter Experts
Adam Kovac
A Bold New Twist on Optical Computing
Max Maxfield
Rapidus Semiconductor
Curta Project - Mechanical Calculator
Estate Sales
Bee Hive Estate Sales
America is losing the physical technologies of the future
Noah Smth
The Economy Has Failed the American People, But It's Taboo To Say Why
Charles Hugh Smith
Macroeconomics: The predator of foolish regimes
Noah Smith
Cloud AI Startup Vultr Raises $333 Million at $3.5 Billion Valuation
WSJ
Metalabel is a release platform for art, design, games, internet, music, publishing, technology, video and film
Metalabel
PBOC Injects 111 Billion of liquidity as-Bond Supply Surges
Bloomberg
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
Leopold Aschenbrenner
Tuttle Twins
Children's Entrepreneur Market
Total Cryptocurrency Market Cap ($bn)
Treasury.goc
Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers
Joseph Howlett
AMD Tweaks Versal Premium FPGAs to Produce Next-Generation Devices
Steven Leibson
An Assassin Showed Just How Angry America Really Is
Matt Stoller
7 Powers the Foundations of Business
Abi Tyas Tunggal
Ideas for Startups
Paul Graham
Glacial and interglacial periods
Geomagnetic Reversal
The Chapwood Index- True Inflation Tracking
Share Sleuth - uncovers fraud and deception by public companies
Media trust hits another historic low
Axios
Aristotle - Rhetoric and Dialectic
Aristotle Defense of Private Property
Zoltan Pozsar - Articles
Zoltan Pozsar

Recent Reads Cont.

Human Action
Ludwig von Mises
John Duchi - Stanford - Statistics and Electrical Engineering
Terence Tao - Stanford
Stephen P. Boyd
Open Evidence
Where inflation comes from
Carola Conces Binder
The Influence of Bell Labs
Brian Potter
The Cure for What Ails Us: Market Crash and Mass Defaults
Charles Hugh Smith
America doesn't really have a working class
Noah Smith
Rothschild family
House of Medici
Orsini Family
How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
Timothy B. Lee
Litmaps - See the relationship of papers
Litmaps
Paul Graham one-pager on how to start a startup:
Paul Graham
Make money move
AI has dreamt up a blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them actually work?
Ewen Callaway
AI: Dystopia or Utopia?
Khosla
Shadow Stats
Conway's Law
Big Brother Watch
AI Manyfesto
How to succeed in Mr. Beast Production
Anti Corruption Foundation
Click Funnels
BitPoseidon Official Site of the Bitcoin Power Law
Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund
Start9 Sovereign Computing
Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships
FTC
NVIDIA now has a greater market value than the entire German stock market and the entire Italian stock market
Jason Zweig
Processes and culture are in a tug-of-war
Michel Hogan
Has The Fed Conquered Inflation?
James Lavish
Persistent Weak Layer
Arthur Hayes
PvP
Arthur Hayes
A Tale of Two Economies
James Lavish
Greeks and Gamma Walls
James Lavish
Reflections on Palantir
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Mastermind Groups
Stripe Pay with Crypto on Link
Kids Lateral Thinking Puzzles
Bloomerang Donor Management
Candide - Voltaire
Voltaire
Konpira Fune Fune - Japanese Drinking Game
Harvard Negotiation Project
Midjourney ML Image Creation
Bluesky - decentralized microblogging social platform
Farcaster - decentralized social networks
Costar - Data platform for commercial real estate information and analytics
Segment - customer data platform
Mixpanel - Analytics
Code of Bushido
The Code of Chivalry for the Modern Age
Praxeology
Catallactics
Larq - UV Water Bottle
My Bitcoin Spidey-Senses are Tingling
James Check
Is the US Treasury Insolvent?
James Lavish
Investing - "Rumpelstiltskin Risks" & Why Not All Securitizations Are Created Equal
Michael Kao
Ad Hominem Fallacy
Eight Sleep
Tactical Asset Analyzer
Tufts - Food Compass
Expect a Wave of Wafer-Scale Computers TSMC
Samuel Moore
Working at Vaire Computing
How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?
Anil Ananthaswamy
Udio - AI for Music
Every Single Cognitive Bias in One Infographic
Jeff Desjardins
The Managerial Crisis Is A Systemic Crisis
Marty Bent
Epoch AI
Gap Minder - Independent educational non-profit fighting global misconceptions.
The 6 Ds - Digitized, Deceptive, Disruptive, Demonitized, Dematerialized, Democratized
Algorithmic Collusion
Byrne Hobart
Wearable Sensinel device detects subtle signs to monitor heart failure
Matt Hamblen
Transcript for John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401
Lex Fridman
Order Overload: Cafe
Larry Fink’s 2024 Annual Chairman’s Letter to Investors
Ncore’s Not Your Granny’s Coherent NoC (Network-on-Chip)
Design News
Enshittification
Cory Doctorow
Sarah Kreps
Sarah Kreps
1970s CPI Calculation - 2023 Peak inflation was 18%
Larry Summers
Broadcom Delivers Industry's First 51.2-Tbps Co-Packaged Optics Ethernet Switch Platform For Scalable AI Systems
India Stack
The Simon Abundance Index 2023
These Four Themes Will Define the Next Decade
Charles Hugh Smith
Pharmacological Effects of Urolithin A and Its Role in Muscle Health and Performance: Current Knowledge and Prospects
Haotian Zhao, Ge Song, Hongkang Zhu, He Qian, Xinliang Pan, Xiaoneng Song, Yijie Xie,4 and Chang Liu
Raj Chetty - Opportunity Atlas and other great works
Dan Boneh - Stanford Cryptography
Homomorphic encryption
Veblen good
Warn Tracker - Layoff Tracking
Capital Inflow & Outflow Multiplier
Rational Root
Scams, Scrolls, Dating, Ackman, Search, Real Estate, Alternative Data, Private Equity
Byrne Hobart
Developing the science of science
Heidi Williams & Paul Niehaus
Gum Road - great ideas, try them, lots of them, and find out what works
YNAB
I know who the buyer is
Nik Bhatia
Who Error-Corrects AI?
Charles Hugh Smith
Cloward–Piven strategy
Operation Mockingbird
How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)
Lenny Rachitsky
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