Trying to read more pieces on the scope of NGI and what use cases we're yet to discover. Specifically, examples and stories of the Gaia hypothesis and how the planet self-regulates itself
Created a list of some of my favourite podcast episodes specifically, because not all podcast episodes are good. Nature, history, art are some broad themes.
TIL: 2/3rds of wheat varieties & a 1/3rd of the maize varieties grown worldwide are developed by a Mexico-based non-profit organisation, known by its Spanish initials CIMMYT.
The special seeds developed by the org are widely used in India.
To be read in conjunction with the Babbler hypothesis - The amount of time some people spend talking gets them into leadership positions. It doesn't matter what they say, just how much they rant on. I read that, and realised how insanely true it is
This is so over-engineered, it tells you that when you have billions, you do the most whacky things. A 5-minute VFX job will yield the same results. But no, there's so much f*k you money, they had to do this.
Unrelated: FS blogs used to be short, crisp and to-the-point. Now they get a bit ranty and preachy and seems like some of this is mined from ChatGPT. Whatever happened to the crisp editing :(
India WeWork offices are a delight. Not as packed, but gets pretty good footfall. And about 70% of the year, the rent-a-seat space is packed in a whole bunch of them. In fact, I won't be surprised if the India-side of operations is doing really well; owing to their partnership with a local operator. Some large companies (1000+) also avail WeWork's services here.
This is a fantastic piece, and is written so well! I wish more could be done to educate folks along the way. Imagine 1/10th of a country's GDP depending on the fungi, and it's not just hard to source, but its efficacy on certain aspects is questionable.
A wrapper and a friendly brand name, 'Lilli' is exactly what the marketing department ordered for getting large enterprise companies to dole out more monies. Visionary.
The biggest problem is levels of brightness on screens. Most people don't change it, and by the time they've realised it's affecting their eyes, it's too late. And i think mobile adaptive brightness does not account for how we must always use lesser on-light screens.
Some games are timeless classics, and to use Stable Diffusion to do this is incredible. Looks absolutely stunning. And yes, can we please have the 2 sec lag removed so we can inspect and actually see what Generative AI was able to output
I'd be A LOT more interested to see what happens to a whole set of workers who dabble in lower-skilled jobs and are now being rendered redundant with tools such as Chat GPT.
Something is off. Given Meta's ambitions with the metaverse, shutting this down seems contrary to how Meta is thinking of NFT art? Does this mean there's no place for NFT art in the metaverse? Or did something real shady happen in the plaftorm; data that shows people are susceptible to buying NFTs are exorbitant prices, and Instagram wants to stop this behaviours before market education kicks in?
Marketing is mostly good writing. Start by writing and opining on things you're building, or what you find interesting in the ecosystem you operate in. The more you write, the more articulate you get. Social media platforms like twitter and Linkedin are great places to start voicing some of these writings. Another way to do this is to analyse a company; understand its P&L, its business model, its growth levers and write about it obsessively. It's what folks like Packy do with their newsletters. Eventually, you get better at content dissemination; this is the second part of the puzzle. If attention spans are bad, how do you bait a reader in. How do you frame headlines and get people to read something by invoking their curiosity etc...
If you have these two elements baked in, the next step is to focus on digital and performance marketing aspects — you will learn these in 2-3 weeks tops given how simple and easy to digest they are.
This is such a compelling article on Goodharts law and interesting to see how Amazon conducts their Weekly Business Reviews. I'm wondering if there's a rebuttal to this piece.