Michael Wood

Writing essays to learn @socraticdiary.

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

How many tokens did you use last night?

This simple question is the best measure of your, your team's and your firm's adoption of AI in 2026.

https://t.co/pAfIwSpQcf

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

The end of Salaries?

As the AI march continues, companies still offering salaries will be negatively selecting for the least productive employees.

https://t.co/y5WQ6AQf2l

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

India isn't deploying solar at breakneck speed because Greta Thunberg told them to.

They're doing it because SOLAR IS THE CHEAPEST FORM OF ENERGY.

Solar is for real, folks.

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

@pitdesi @shamir_k I always think these stats are very unfair on Americans. Many countries’ citizens need passports to go to the beach, the mountains or to a Tier 1 city. Americans can do all that without a passport!

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

UK “average real house prices (are) no higher than they were in late 2015”.

Gov policy should be to facilitate a continuation of this for another 10-20 years!

https://t.co/2pLxwIHwIF

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

Peak Guardian?

Yes, you’re lifting “1.1m people out of poverty”. Yes, it’s a governmental infrastructure project delivered “years early”. And yes, the project had a 90% local approval rating.

But can’t you do it in a different way?!!

#peakguardian

https://t.co/BHryhnNEXd

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

@jburnmurdoch Done.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Whether or not the world phases out oil use hinges on whether or not someone develops good substitutes in crucial applications like air travel and maritime shipping, not on what a summit statement says.

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

The UK isn't short of problems. But this - horrible horrible public sector productivity - is one of the worst (and most expensive).

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

@MerrynSW @_paullay 😮

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

@garrytan 💯

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

@eugenewei @jacksondahl This is a great point.

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

@ProductHunt 😂👏

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

“Toyota advert banned for showing pick-up truck convoy driving through river”

How is this part of the remit of the Advertising Standards Agency?!

Mental.

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

Given AI, will David Attenborough be the voice of nature documentaries for decades to come?

What are the niche areas where AI enables the power law to come into force? Does Stephen Fry become the voice for every children’s story? Does Walter Cronkite make a comeback?

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[Will Lord @WJBLord]

"Fundamentally, the British dream is not owning your own home, it is owning someone else's."

Delicious line in a great @duncanrobinson piece on British landlords. https://t.co/qFOKBOQOMc

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

@WJBLord @TomMcTague @duncanrobinson 👏💯

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

@pmddomingos @paulg It’s even worse than this - it produced companies that should have been leaders but then lost the lead (Nokia, Vodafone, DeepMind, etc.) and it pioneered whole industries and lost the lead (mobile, solar).

[Michael Wood @michaelcwood]

@villi This is the issue with Ads. It is a business model servicing vendors not customers and hence at odds with the rest of the business.