Sree Sreenivasan (sreenet.substack.com)

CEO, @Digimentors • co-host @NobelPrize Peace Conf • outreach JLF USA • ex-CDO @nycgov @metmuseum @columbia • • #NYTReadalong

[Sree Sreenivasan (sreenet.substack.com) @sree]

Honored to co-host, with @IngvillBR of @NobelPeaceOslo, the Nobel Peace Conference today from 7-11 am ET (that’s 1-5 pm CEST). We have five @NobelPrize Peace Laureates speaking today, incl @mariaressa @JuanManSantos @nargesfnd plus global Gen Z leaders.

WATCH LIVE OR LATER: https://t.co/jCkULt8f2w

PROGRAM: https://t.co/yrvuYFeT6W

[Sree Sreenivasan (sreenet.substack.com) @sree]

Good news for a change!

[Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer @EvanKirstel]

@Acyn

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

needed video to believe he actually said this 9 days before an election.

[Dr. Sujana Chandrasekhar @DrSujanaENT]

Great show today- catch it on repeat - and tell me a salmon fact when you do. 🐟 #NYTReadalong @sree @neilparekh @digimentors

[Neil Parekh (He / Him / His) @neilparekh]

@sree @andreafelliott @digimentors @scroll_in @muckrack @GraphicHisCo Get gift links and PDFs from our website: https://t.co/HLBAOfMcDa.

You can also download a PDF of the 28-page Special Report #WeedWars. We will do a deep dive on a future show.

[Neil Parekh (He / Him / His) @neilparekh]

@sree @mcurtisnc3 @DrSujanaENT @Eurocentrique @JuntaeDeLane @DianeStefani @BigGreenPen @RoseHorowitz31 @shashib @AnitaBGreen @nytimes @CauveryMadhavan @DianaRohini @jswatz @monicadrake @phaldipur @AvolynsPapa @johnleemedia @SFDoug @lipiroy @waynekamidoi 4/x @Sree and I are live with The Sunday #NYTReadalong. AI and the #Midterm Elections, #Ramaswamy, and #NYT175. Make sure to get the PDF of #WeedWars from our website.

https://t.co/cNA7o6APMp

[Sree Sreenivasan (sreenet.substack.com) @sree]

#NYTReadalong Ep. 414: @neilparekh and I discuss AI and the #MidtermElections, #VivekRamaswamy's attack ad, #NYT175 and @andreafelliott's #WeedWars. Produced by @digimentors in collaboration with @scroll_in. Sponsors: @MuckRack & @Graphichisco. https://t.co/ATydvxAzvw

[Amb. Abhay Kumar @AmbassadorAbhay]

Wishing everyone a very happy 10th International Day of #Diplomats! The celebration of #InternationalDayofDiplomats, which I had proposed and started in #Brazil in 2017, has now become institutional, being celebrated in various geographies.
https://t.co/sPi1B7NhlH

[Vasant Bhatt @vasantbhatt14]

Grateful to @gabydvj and The Verge for taking the time to speak with me and thoughtfully cover the growing concerns surrounding anti-Indian hate in US politics.

As I shared in our conversation, this goes far beyond partisan politics. Our belonging in American society should never be conditional upon our ethnic origins or our willingness to conform to someone else’s narrow conception of what it means to be American.

https://t.co/dF2mXT7tdr

[Acyn @Acyn]

OBAMA: He pulled out of the JCPOA, starts this war—Seven months later, six months after they declared victory, how's that war going? 

Our allies and our bases have been attacked. Americans have been killed. Hundreds of Americans have been wounded. We have run down our stock of missiles. And Iran now has veto power over the strait of hormuz, where oil goes through to the world market. 

This is the reason why the price of oil is up. Nobody disputes that. This is the reason the price of diesel is up. This is the reason why the price of just about everything is up.

Meanwhile, you got the defense secretary who's squarely focused on important matters: the jawlines and testosterone levels of our troops. 

These are not serious people. And the problem is you end up having to pay the price for their lack of seriousness.

[Karthik @KarthikForTexas]

Just voted at Saturday 730 AM in Harris County to beat the rush.

Happy to vote for Talarico, @GinaHinojosaTX, @letitiaplummer, and countless others!

Let’s win this Texas!!!!

[Neil Parekh (He / Him / His) @neilparekh]

1/x AI and the Elections. Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Attack Ad. #NYT175 Coverage.

@Sree and I will discuss these topics and review the Sunday New York Times on Ep. 414 of The Sunday #NYTReadalong.

📅 Sunday, Oct. 25
⏰ 8:30 a.m. ET

Details, viewing links and replay:
https://t.co/TVWXpHTCXR

Bad actors aren't just spreading political misinformation on social media. They're building fake news websites designed to influence what AI chatbots tell voters.

And Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad? There’s only one word for it. Disgusting.

Produced by @digimentors in partnership with @scroll_in and Scroll Global. Thank you to our sponsors, @MuckRack (@gregory) and @graphichisco (@WalterDGreason and @Dieselfunk).

[Neil Parekh (He / Him / His) @neilparekh]

2/x In addition to AI and the Elections and the Ramaswamy ad, @sree and I will also discuss how Jeffrey Schmalz turned his AIDS into a beat for @nytimes and a piece by Ellie Kemper in which she annotates a 2008 essay by Nora Ephron, as part of the ongoing #NYT175 coverage.

There's also a special 28-page Sunday Times section, #WeedWars by former #NYTReadalong guest @andreafelliotttt. It examines whether legalizing cannabis can repair the harm caused by the war on drugs, as longtime residents and wealthy newcomers compete to open stores in gentrifying Hudson, N.Y. The full PDF is on our website.

We also have two Times announcements to share, about the passing of John Geddes and a promotion for @columbiajourn alum @puiwingtam.

Gift links and PDFs: https://t.co/Vc0P4Zjwb1

[BeshearStan @BeshearStan]

Nimesh Patel said this about Vivek Ramaswamy in 2023, and its more relevant then ever

[Ted Merz @TedMerz]

A meetup in midtown NYC of Old Timers from Bloomberg this week reminded me of three big things:

COMPANIES CHANGE. The Bloomberg of today - the established media giant - bears little resemblance to the place we worked in the 1990s when it was defined by the intensity of start-up energy and hustle culture.

PEOPLE CHANGE. Whatever beef you had with anyone you worked with 30 years ago has been (or should be) forgotten. Everyone is happy to just show up and reminisce.

TIMES CHANGE. Fewer and fewer people retire from corporate America these days. Many are let go - often earlier than they would like.

If you are early in your career it's worth anticipating and preparing for all three of those scenarios.

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

The Yogis of the Khyber Pass

Strange as it may seem today, Peshawar was once one of the great centres of Yoga in the world.

[Manu Joseph @manujosephsan]

Let the poor have fun

‘Every time a tech savant wants to flog his stuff in India, he feels he has to explain how it will be useful to the poor. This has shaped a mainstream assumption that what the poor should do with their lives is only fight poverty, cure their diarrhoeas, escape death or valiantly educate themselves beneath a streetlight (to enter professions where we hold all the cards). In reality, most of the time they are just trying to have a good time, like us. And every time a technology has triumphed among the poor, it has been for the same reason that it became popular among the rich: it is fun.
‘Entertainment is not the byproduct of progress; rather, progress is a byproduct of entertainment.’

Read free on my Substack:

https://t.co/aPMEBaHJwn

[AYi @AYi_AInotes]

网景创始人 、硅谷顶级投资人Marc Andreessen 在访谈里坦��，他看到了科技史上最可怕的一道认知鸿沟，

传统巨头以为 AI 只是个降本增效的插件，而新一代 AI 原生团队，正在用完全非人的组织效率掀翻整个商业版图。

当年写出网景浏览器、见证了整个互联网三十年兴衰的 Marc Andreessen，坐在 Ben Horowitz 面前直���发出了感慨，
如果 1994 年我们做 Netscape 的时候就有今天这种 AI 工具，那简直不可想象。

现在绝大多数传统巨头和现有企业，依然在用改良软件的旧思维去看待大模型。

在他们的组织逻辑里，AI 只是一个高级功能，用来给现有业务做个插件、在钉钉里加个智能助手、或者把客服团队砍掉 20% 省点成本。

他们以为自己在拥抱变革，其实只是在给老旧的蒸汽机打补丁。

但真正恐怖的事情，正在那些刚成立的 AI 原生团队里发生。

那些创始人对 AI 能力的理解，跟大厂完全不在同一个平行宇宙。

他们每周���在看着底层技术飞速进化，而且他们压根不会把自己定义成一家软件公司、硬件公司、甚至是一家 AI 公司。

以前创办一家公司，你的组织架构是按人类的协同瓶颈搭出来的：
招产品经理写文档、招工程师写代码、招法务改合同、招运营做投放。
因为人类的脑力带宽有限，所以必须靠庞大的部门和管理层级来支撑业务。

而真正的 AI 原生物种，是用机器智能作为最底层的骨架。

两个人加上一整套自动化 Agent，可以直接把从市场洞察、软件工程、全栈设计到商业销售的链路全部跑通。

他们不是在效率上快了 30%，他们是在组织形态上���底跨越了一个物种。

大厂的盲区，从来不是买不起算力，而是他们无法理解组织本身才是最大的负债。

当现有企业还在开会讨论如何把 AI 塞进现有的业务流程时，新一代的野蛮人正在用完全超越行业界限的方式，把传统的业务流程连根拔起。

未来拉开人与人、公司与公司之间差距的，根本不是你用了哪个模型，而是你到底是在用新工具维持旧世界的体面，还是用新世界的底层逻辑，重新定义了自己能做的事情。

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The MOST obvious (but REALLY good) STARTUP ideas right now:

1. Zestimate for company data (what your data is worth to an AI lab)

2. Google Analytics for agents (see which agents visit your site and what they want)

3. Y Combinator for 1 person companies (back solo founders running a team of agents)

4. Okta for agents (who each agent is and what it's allowed to touch)

5. Marie Kondo for your company's data (clean it up so agents can use it)

6. FICO for agents (a trust score before an agent can spend money)

7. Geico for agents (insurance for when an agent makes an expensive mistake)

8. Datadog for agents (see every step your agents took)

9. Twilio for agents (phone numbers and texting for agents)

10. Upwork for agents (hire an agent for a job instead of a freelancer)

11. ESPN for AI (every model launch covered like a big game).

12. Shutterstock for robot training videos (get paid to film yourself doing chores)

13. Credit Karma for what AI knows about you (see it, fix it, delete it)

14. Norton for AI scams (protect your parents from fake voices and emails)

15. PayPal Buyer Protection for agent purchases (fixes it when your agent buys the wrong thing)

16. Geek Squad for AI (set up personal agents for families and small businesses)

17. Dell for private AI (AI in a box for firms that won't use the cloud)

18. Carfax for used GPUs (a health report before you buy secondhand)

19. Airbnb for idle GPUs (rent out computing power you're not using)

20. Rotten Tomatoes for AI models (real reviews instead of benchmarks)

21. G2 for skills (find the best skills for your agent)

22. Dropbox for your AI memory (take what your agent knows about you to any agent)

23. Canva for physical products (design it with AI and get it made)

24. ADT for your personal agent (alerts when your agent does something it shouldn't)

25. Hertz for robots (rent one for a move, a deep clean or an event)

26. Harvard Business School for internet businesses (a real education in building online)

27. Workday for agents (onboard, manage and offboard your digital workers)

28. Getty Images for your face and voice (license your likeness to AI safely)

29. Meta Muse for older adults (and other high LTV niche)

30. Google Ads for agents (pay to be what the agent recommends)

31. Loom for agents (a walkthrough of everything your agent did)

32. Plaid for agents (approved access to banks, airlines and stores)

33. Jiffy Lube for vibe coded apps (quick fixes when your AI built app breaks)

34. Ancestry for datasets (where your training data came from)

35. The organic label for human-made content (proof a person made it)

36. Strava for builders (track what you ship every week)

37. Honey that haggles for you (your agent negotiates the price)

38. SEM Rush for personal agent platforms (like Muse etc)

39. Frequent flyer miles for agents (loyalty programs built for agents)

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

hospitals and banks. on the same day.

exactly what i have been warning about on TV for months.