Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 5th/6th June 2025
“To encourage long-term thinking, Kelly is helping build a clock into a mountain in western Texas that will tick for 10,000 years. Brian Eno and Jeff Bezos are active collaborators. He’s a born-again Christian. He’s been married to his wife, Gia-Miin, for 38 years, and they have three children together. He was pivotal to a fringe-turned-mainstream movement to identify and catalog every living species on earth (now owned and operated by Smithsonian). He was early to think and write about the quantified self, which gave rise to products like Fitbit, Strava, Apple Watch, Eight Sleep, and the Oura Ring. Kelly’s idea of “1,000 true fans” practically christened the creator economy with his 2008 insight that “if 1,000 people will pay you $100 per year, you can gross $100k—more than enough to live on for most …”
No Rivals: The Gospel (Part III) by Mario Gabriele
“Finally, there is Peter Thiel, the dark prophet. He speaks about progress, too, but from a place of grievance. The world could be wonderful, Thiel seems to say, if it weren’t so utterly shit. That his most famous utterance is “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters” is fitting. No dream can be expressed without disappointment. Our predecessors betrayed us, and we, the living, must muddle through the morass …”
Tyler Cowen: Does AI Make Us Stupid? by Tyler Cowen
“AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready?
At first glance, this result might seem intuitive. After all, if you use GPS to drive around where you live, you might never end up learning the proper routes on your own. Or if you can Google to learn the capital city of any U.S. state, you might never memorize the list of them, as I was required to do in grade school way back when …”
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