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September quarterly update
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Hope you've had a good September. This quarter, I published 3 book summaries and 1 blog post: Book summaries
Blog posts
Yeah, it's been a bit of an AI/tech-heavy quarter. If you're sick of hearing about AI by now, you'll be pleased to hear that my next summary for Kaput is on a completely different topic. It's about Germany's economic model and the problems that the author Wolfgang Münchau sees with it. I expect to publish that in the next week or two. Thanks for subscribing! Until next time, |
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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...
My latest summary is for The 12 Levers: The Complete Psychological Toolkit for Improving Your Life by Spencer Greenberg and Jeremy Stevenson. In it, the authors attempt to distil the most useful techniques from over 100 self-help books into just 368 pages. Spencer founded Clearer Thinking, a research organisation that conducts studies and creates digital self-help tools for the public. I've been following Clearer Thinking's podcast for a few years and have gotten a lot of value from it, so...
My latest summary is for If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. The "It" in the title refers to an artificial superintelligence that is vastly more capable than humans across a broad range of domains. The authors argue that once it crosses a certain threshold, such AI would pose an extinction-level threat to humanity. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS What is AI? One way to think...