My latest summary is for Kaput: The End of the German Miracle by Wolfgang Münchau. The book argues that Germany’s decades-long model of neo-mercantilism has failed, and that the country now faces structural decline. This is a topic I know very little about, so I fact-checked this one more heavily than usual, and wrote up a separate post with the errors I found. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS Germany’s economic...

Hope you've had a good September. This quarter, I published 3 book summaries and 1 blog post: Book summaries If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (31 mins). The authors explain why they think superintelligent AI poses an extinction-level threat to humanity. The 12 Levers by Spencer Greenberg and Jeremy Stevenson (30 mins). An attempt to distil the most useful techniques from over 100 self-help books into one. This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee (32...

My latest summary of This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee covers Tim’s invention of the web, the commercial and social forces that have reshaped it since, and Tim’s current push for data sovereignty. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS How the web was born. While at CERN, Tim conceived of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a decentralised way of organising information. He saw...