Weekend Reading

Jan 23, 2026

How to Hire by Vinod Khosla
- “Were space launches disrupted by Airbus, Lockheed and Boeing? No. It was SpaceX and Rocket Lab. Was automotive disrupted by GM or VW or by Waymo and Tesla? Did anyone from traditional media, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, Viacom, Hollywood, innovate media or did Youtube, Netflix, Twitter, Facebook? All that activity is coming from people who weren’t in the business”
Many Small Steps for Robots, One Giant Leap for Mankind by Packy McCormick & Evan Beard
- “It’s only once you start deploying robots outside of the lab that something else becomes obvious: robotics progress is not gated by a single breakthrough. There is no single fundamental innovation that will suddenly automate the world. We will eventually automate the world. But my thesis is that progress will happen by climbing the gradient of variability…”
How slime and dumb rocks can help us better define “smart” by Eric Markowitz
- “In our rush to create artificial minds, we seem to have forgotten to study the real ones. Because once you start noticing the intelligence threaded through the natural world, you realize that the planet is already saturated with superintelligent systems. We just don’t recognize them because they don’t use language or wear lab coats or hoodies”

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