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Now and Meanwhile: Two Worlds of Finance

blog.zactownsend.com·2 pts·zt·
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Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024)

thedriftmag.com·69 pts·zt·
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Why Agentic AI Needs a Credit Infrastructure, Not Just a Payments Layer

blog.zactownsend.com·3 pts·zt·
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Complex systems: Life insurance and your money

complexsystemspodcast.com·2 pts·zt·
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Process vs. data: who wins in the vertical AI race

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How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup

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Not Quite yet Gone with the Wind

thedispatch.com·2 pts·zt·
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Spaces Between the Stars

lrb.co.uk·2 pts·zt·
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Idiot to insider: the basics of building a life insurer

blog.zactownsend.com·3 pts·zt·
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The 100-Year Startup: Life insurance and abundance

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Winning the AI application layer will require vertical business models

blog.zactownsend.com·3 pts·zt·
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Winning the AI application layer will require vertical business models

blog.zactownsend.com·2 pts·zt·
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Vertically integrate an AI agentic solution

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Empathy on entrance price: Bridge.xyz and Astranis

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The Universe Is Not a Fairy Tale

city-journal.org·4 pts·zt·
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Underwriting the Bitcoin Boom

digitalfrontier.com·1 pts·zt·
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Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024)

thedriftmag.com·1 pts·zt·
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Why do people believe true things?

conspicuouscognition.com·6 pts·zt·
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A Conservative Thought Experiment on a Liberal College Campus

bostonmagazine.com·2 pts·zt·
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"She's bouncing the ball" – the uncanny way octopuses play

lithub.com·153 pts·zt·
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Sama told 30M before announcement, GDB 5M before

twitter.com·2 pts·zt·
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Onion Futures Act

en.wikipedia.org·3 pts·zt·
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What Was the Fact?

thenewatlantis.com·3 pts·zt·
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A Lone Norwegian Trader Shook the World’s Financial System (2019)

nytimes.com·2 pts·zt·
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The AI Organization, part I

blog.mutable.ai·3 pts·zt·
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Why are red states hiring so much faster than blue states?

washingtonpost.com·6 pts·zt·
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Silicon Valley Bank Is Now a Division of First Citizens Bank

firstcitizens.com·2 pts·zt·
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The Silicon Valley Bank that never was

thisweekinfintech.com·1 pts·zt·
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Testimony of Mr. John J. Ray III, CEO FTX Debtors [pdf]

financialservices.house.gov·2 pts·zt·
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The AI startup erasing call center worker accents: is it fighting bias?

theguardian.com·3 pts·zt·
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