🔔 Calling all nonfiction authors and publishers! Do you have a book releaseing in SEPTEMBER 2026?
I might want to cover your book in my Top Nonfiction releases video and list it on the site.📚👀
I’m finalizing Top New Nonfiction list for Sep this week.
Submit your book here:
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You can read and discuss any of these with Ascend today!
1. Iliad (Homer)
2. Odyssey
3. Theogony (Hesiod)
4. Oresteia (Aeschylus)
5. Theban Plays (Sophocles)
6. The Bacchae (Euripides)
7. The Frogs (Aristophanes)
8. The Clouds
9. First Alcibiades (Plato)
10. Euthyphro
11. Apology
12. Crito
13. Phaedo
14. Meno
15. Gorgias
16. The Inferno (Dante)
17. The Purgatorio (Dante)
All our videos and podcasts are posted now! Start anytime on any work.
🌞NEXT WEEK we discuss Plato's Hipparchus, then Lovers, then Hippias Minor, and then Ion.
🌞THEN its "Short Story September!"
🌞THEN we start Plato's Republic this October.
You can read the great books with Ascend!
Don't waste 2 years learning to build LLMs like Claude & ChatGPT.
Stanford just dropped a 2 hour course on how to build LLMs from scratch.
• 00:00 - LLM tokenization
• 25:44 - how LLMs decode user prompts
• 35:40 - training pipeline of LLMs
• 1:16:47 - LLM architecture from scratch
Anthropic pays $750,000/year to engineers who understand this exact knowledge of LLMs.
Bookmark this & give 2 hours today, no matter what. Then read the article below.
The Best Movies of the Last 10 Years 🍿🔥
1. Oppenheimer (2023) ⭐️ 10.0
2. Parasite (2019) ⭐️ 10.0
3. Dune: Part Two (2024) ⭐️ 10.0
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) ⭐️ 9.9
5. Top Gun: Maverick (2022) ⭐️ 9.9
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) ⭐️ 9.9
7. The Batman (2022) ⭐️ 9.8
8. Blade Runner 2049 (2017) ⭐️ 9.8
1917 (2019) ⭐️ 9.8
9. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) ⭐️ 9.8
10. Joker (2019) ⭐️ 9.8
11. Dune (2021) ⭐️ 9.8
12. Arrival (2016) ⭐️ 9.8
13. La La Land (2016) ⭐️ 9.8
14. The Lighthouse (2019) ⭐️ 9.7
15. Ford v Ferrari (2019) ⭐️ 9.7
16. Knives Out (2019) ⭐️ 9.7
17. The Father (2020) ⭐️ 9.7
18. Sound of Metal (2019) ⭐️ 9.7
19. The Holdovers (2023) ⭐️ 9.7
20. The Fabelmans (2022) ⭐️ 9.6
21. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) ⭐️ 9.6
22. No Time to Die (2021) ⭐️ 9.6
23. The Menu (2022) ⭐️ 9.6
24. The Northman (2022) ⭐️ 9.6
25. The Substance (2024) ⭐️ 9.6
26. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) ⭐️ 9.6
27. CODA (2021) ⭐️ 9.6
28. Jojo Rabbit (2019) ⭐️ 9.6
29. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) ⭐️ 9.5
30. Past Lives (2023) ⭐️ 9.5
31. TÁR (2022) ⭐️ 9.5
32. The Whale (2022) ⭐️ 9.5
33. Aftersun (2022) ⭐️ 9.5
34. Soul (2020) ⭐️ 9.5
35. The Irishman (2019) ⭐️ 9.5
36. Logan (2017) ⭐️ 9.5
37. Wind River (2017) ⭐️ 9.5
38. Get Out (2017) ⭐️ 9.5
39. Hereditary (2018) ⭐️ 9.5
40. Dunkirk (2017) ⭐️ 9.4
41. The Last Duel (2021) ⭐️ 9.4
42. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) ⭐️ 9.4
43. The Gentlemen (2019) ⭐️ 9.4
44. Bullet Train (2022) ⭐️ 9.4
45. The Green Knight (2021) ⭐️ 9.4
46. Drive My Car (2021) ⭐️ 9.4
47. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) ⭐️ 9.4
48. The Boy and the Heron (2023) ⭐️ 9.4
49. Civil War (2024) ⭐️ 9.3
50. The Brutalist (2024) ⭐️ 9.3
🚨 BREAKING: Claude can now build your entire brand identity, website, and launch strategy in a single afternoon for free.
Here are 8 powerful prompts to build your brand:
Hats off to doctoral student and podcaster Zhong Shu in Beijing, China, who did this fascinating and smart interview with Christopher Nolan about THE ODYSSEY yesterday, originally posted to Bilibili.
A great listen/watch.
A normal American student just bought an iPad and Mac Mini for $2,200. Connected them to his MacBook.
Three computers on one desk - dorm roommates thought he was mining crypto.
He just set up the automation and went to sleep.
In the morning the system had already processed hundreds of leads, written personalized emails to each one and filled the CRM without a single touch.
The team that did this before him- cost $7,000 a month
He paid $2,200 once.
There are 360 million companies in the world and 310 of them still pay people for what a machine does better.
And only 100,000 people on the planet know how to use AI and set this up.
$401 million in revenue in year one.
$1.8 billion projected for this one.
Employees: two. Him and his brother.
AI wrote the code, made the ads, answered the customers.
Starting capital: $20,000.
The New York Times called it the future of business.
The future is already here, just not evenly distributed.
This is the moment when anyone with a laptop
and the will to figure it out can make money.
"Visualizing exercise resulted in a strength increase by 35%."
The imagination is powerful:
Visualise sales; you'll close more.
Visualise success; you'll be richer.
Visualise public speaking; you'll be calmer.
Focus your mind on winning and you win more.