Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 06th/07th April 2024
Smart Words from Smart People by Morgan Housel
“I became so avid a collector of instances of bad judgment that I paid no attention to boundaries between professional territories … why should I search for some tiny, unimportant, hard-to-find new stupidity in my own field when some large, important, easy-to-find stupidity was just over the fence in the other fellow’s professional territory Munger…”
Inside Y Combinator’s ‘Boom Loop’: The Startup Factory Goes Brasher Leaner and Meaner by Alex Konrad
“ In the summer of 2022, Garry Tan hopped on a plane from San Francisco headed for the Cotswold’s, a quiet part of England about a two hour’s drive west of London, to meet with his mentor, Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham....”
AI Could Actually Help Rebuild the Middle Class by David Autor
“The reason is expertise. Becoming an air traffic controller requires years of education and on-the-job apprenticeship — it is a scarce skill. Conversely, in most U.S. states, working as a crossing guard requires no formal training, specialized expertise or certification. An urgent need for more crossing guards could be filled by most air traffic controllers but the reverse would not be true…”