Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 7th/8th October 2023
The Written Word by Morgan Housel
“A good story is like leverage for ideas. Stories leverage ideas the same way debt leverages assets. An idea on its own might be …”
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule by Ronan Farrow
“The meddling of oligarchs and other monied interests in the fate of nations is not new. During the First World War, J. P. Morgan lent vast sums to the Allied powers; afterward, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., poured money into the fledgling League of Nations. The investor George Soros’s Open Society Foundations underwrote …”
Inside Elon Musk’s Struggle for the Future of AI by Walter Isaacson
“Musk then turned to Sam Altman, a tightly bundled software entrepreneur, sports-car enthusiast, and survivalist who, behind his polished veneer, had a Musk-like intensity. At a small dinner in Palo Alto, they decided to co-found a nonprofit artificial intelligence research lab, which they named …”
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