• Netflix losing a lot of money to subscription mooching (quantified by Mechanical Turk)
  • How China’s social credit system works
  • Quantum computing 101
  • My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery
  • Make your own AlphaZero based engine
  • Wealthy and miserable
  • Happiness is about an expectation of positive change
  • How to make the most of small talk - conversations based on observations, interests, shared experiences
  • Profile of a skateboarder
  • Building a community
  • How the information age leads to micro targeting, the fall of higher education
  • Traveling across the US by Amtrak
  • Investing in the apocolypse
  • Best hike in every state.
  • Freddish
  • Robert F Smith
  • Seth Rogen - “A lot of our career is just based on not being their biggest headache.”
  • Dandelion wish factory - Draw people into the experience, no spectators
  • Incel Plastic Surgery - “It’s easy to look back on something and say we shouldn’t have operated,” he tells me. But screening for someone who will never be happy is difficult. “My job is not to be a psychiatrist sitting in a chair. You’re serving a need, and you don’t know the depths of that need.” … He believes each of us is actually three people: how we see ourselves, how others see us, and how we actually are.
  • Someone to watch - Jacob Glanville of Distributed Bio. In 2012, at 31, Glanville took his code and left his prestigious job at Pfizer. He then founded Distributed Bio while also becoming the first Ph.D. candidate in computational immunology at Stanford University. Five years later, Glanville completed his doctorate, and business at Distributed Bio was booming. He now licenses his software and antibody library back to Pfizer and each of nine other pharmaceutical giants for around $500,000 a year and typically receives 2 percent of the profit from any drugs developed using them.
    • How was he able to take his code with him? Doesn’t Pfizer own it?
  • We can no longer escape the past - teenagers should have a moratorium not on experience, but on consequences. What happens if one does not have these lessons early?
  • How elite athletes handle pressure - With repetition, stress can be transformed into fortitude.