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I'm starting a series on the podcasts, audiobooks, etc. that are grabbing my attention. I'll curate the best of what I'm listening to and pull out some good quotes that stuck with me. Here's the first edition: * The Startup Teaching 2-Year Olds

AI Twitter and WhatsApp groups mostly cover two things: frontier labs battling for AGI supremacy and startups building AI infrastructure. Essentially, there’s a large buffet of AI capabilities and tools to serve them up, but the world needs founders to build real apps that give people tangible value. I

Pseudonymous researcher Gwern had a fascinating interview on the Dwarkesh podcast. He is very optimistic on AGI in the next several years and given that timeline believes that we should only do things in one of three categories: 1. Things we enjoy because we like them 2. Things where we

Howard Marks, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital, is a renowned value investor. Over the past 25 years, he's written memos to Oaktree's clients to update them on his views on investing and the markets. Here's what Warren Buffet had to say about Marks' recent

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival may be America's top music festival. In 2014, Coachella grossed $78 million, breaking its record for gross ticket sales from the previous year. Artists at Coachella, like headliners AC/DC and Drake or newer stars Madeon and Sylvan Esso, represent the

Modern airplane travel is spectacular. The Department of Transportation reported that an all-time high 848 million passengers flew in the U.S. in 2014. And remarkably, all of those passengers survived. With recent tragedies like the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and Germanwings crash, I wondered if airplane crashes are changing.

Learning a new language has many well-researched benefits. This year, I've set aside time to learn German and build more projects in public. And this month, I'm launching a new website that achieves both goals: Noob German (more on this later). Here are seven scientifically-backed lessons

Segment is a customer data hub that makes it easy for websites and mobile apps to integrate 3rd-party analytics tools. With all the customer data already flowing through them, Segment is opening a powerful distribution channel for data-powered SaaS businesses. Full disclosure — I'm a Segment angel investor, lived

Rather than write down New Year's resolutions, I tend to think of general areas to improve over the following year. Unfortunately, I'm left without any concrete, measurable improvements, so I'm going to take a different approach for 2015. Here are two specific resolutions I&