Millie Tran

there must be a better way. chief digital content officer @cfr_org. always @condenast @texastribune @nytimes. writing a newsletter on media & motherhood.

[Kyle Chayka @chaykak]

"working class" is anyone who still has to Post

[Michael B.G. Froman @MikeFroman]

President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for a highly anticipated summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week.

I was one of the few Americans in the room in Sunnylands, when former President Barack Obama and Xi rolled up their sleeves in June 2013. It was a rare moment for a real, substantive, and fairly unscripted conversation about some of the most significant issues in the relationship. Most summits are long on formalities and short on substance.

So, what will Trump actually leave the summit with?

[Rachel Karten @milkkarten]

the fyp ate the follower and changed the way marketing works. brands used to have to grow a following for their content to be seen. now recommendation-based feeds do the work for them. when posting feels like a slot machine, of course brands will pull as many levers as possible.

[Katie Robertson @katie_robertson]

NEW: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will continue publishing! It has been acquired by the nonprofit Venetoulis Institute, which runs the Baltimore Banner. My story here: https://t.co/VsTFjeNqNs

[Millie Tran @millie]

@sudomateo Oh I totally agree. @jessegenet and @clairevo are my mom inspo

[Millie Tran @millie]

Agentic parenting is an awful phrase

and also the mental load on parents — particularly on mothers — is real and staggering

[a16z @a16z]

Jesse Genet on Agentic Parenting

Jesse Genet joins a16z's Sarah Wang and Katherine Boyle to discuss her journey from founder to parent, how she's using agents in her household, and how AI could transform parenting for the better.

00:00 YC founder turned homeschool mom
03:00 Discovering Claude Code and agentic building
06:00 Building while homeschooling 4 kids under 5
11:00 How AI generates personalized lesson plans and logs progress
18:00 Jesse's 11-agents
27:05 Agent tech stack deep dive
33:56 How agents improve daily life
40:04 Letting kids interact with AI: values, risks, and the future of parenting

@jessegenet @KTmBoyle @sarahdingwang

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

This is the definitive synthesis of the macro and the micro, of currency policy and industrial policy and much more

Great piece

https://t.co/4f0R8NAwSp

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[Millie Tran @millie]

I know this face. It's the universal male expression for "fair enough"

[Millie Tran @millie]

@LianaFix Link here: https://t.co/7SavqJ80mU

[Millie Tran @millie]

Good piece by @LianaFix and Ben Harris on Hungary's election, especially as Orbán concedes — ousting him is the easy part, but his "16 years of supermajority rule has enabled him to substantially alter the constitution"

[Millie Tran @millie]

@bunchofnumberz1 @OpenSquareCap Yes but the drawdown capacity is the limiting factor https://t.co/xDJolYTWGH

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

Fascinating media deal. Seems like it would present an immediate problem with guest booking and advertising - if you compete with OpenAI, why would you boost a competitor…

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Really enjoyed chatting with former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimando today @CFR_org. Talked chips, CHIPS, China, AI, US-Europe relations and more. Find it on the feed next week

[Eddie Fishman @edwardfishman]

Iran got more sanctions relief from closing the Strait of Hormuz for a couple weeks than it got from all the nuclear concessions it made in the JCPOA

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Has any tweet aged better than this one? It’s basically the defining ethos of the entire last decade. By some objective measure, it might be the best tweet of all time.

[Millie Tran @millie]

@elonmusk @Kpaxs you should buy @scmallaby's book! https://t.co/4XGtlxzwJy

[Millie Tran @millie]

This is an excerpt from @scmallaby's book, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. You can read this excerpt and more! https://t.co/4XGtlxzwJy

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

This is a man who has been haunted since childhood and built a billion dollar company as a side effect of trying to make the haunting stop.

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

The size of the @nytimes newsroom: Publisher AG Sulzberger says it’s now 2300 journalists, doubled from 10 years ago.

[Millie Tran @millie]

@lennysan @TheRialMichelle Guys this is so cute

[Millie Tran @millie]

Links here:

https://t.co/NstRVMiX5a

https://t.co/FSixP9YhIY

https://t.co/PN0QYVAgSm

[Millie Tran @millie]

I hear X is good again so I'm sharing some excellent pieces @CFR_org has been publishing on Iran. First is from @mchorowitz about how we're in a new era of drone warfare

[Millie Tran @millie]

Finally is this piece from Charles Kupchan on what the Trump administration should do next