Jungles are a Blessing
This is 150 years old Changa Manga Forest this afternoon with a "temperature feel like" 45 degrees C
Dozens of jungle birds singing melodious songs even in sweltering heat 🎵
(We were checking irrigation being provided to young trees grown 3 years ago)
New podcast with @garrytan, @farbood and Daniel Francis.
Live in the Future!
00:00 Guest Intros
02:35 Live in the Future
03:58 Will AI Outsmart us?
07:43 In the Anthropic Breadline
09:59 The Tech Genie Is Out
12:33 We Invested in COVID?!
14:25 Good Writing Is Novelty
18:50 Living Like It’s 2028
24:32 Truth dot ai
30:18 Does China have the Weights?
35:38 Everyone has AI Anxiety
39:32 Have Your Agent Talk to My Agent
42:01 What if Open Source takes the Lead?
44:03 The Sun is Setting on Google
48:00 Ride the AGI
50:46 Will There be Startups?
54:05 Defending Taiwan
1:00:05 The California Empire
1:01:26 If the U.S. Falls
1:03:11 Universal Basic Robot
1:06:01 Humans as AI Handlers
Punjab is increasing its tree cover
13,200 tree saplings have been planted in District Gujrat next to the railway line
Just before this, 15,000 trees were planted in District Layyah and 13,200 in District Faisalabad
@ankurnagpal@usvc_ my investment at USVC didn’t approve but I have not received my funds back despite repeated reminders and follow ups in the last few weeks @nivi
Question @naval@nivi , let say someone wants to learn something like a 150 page PDF, is it same to give this to ai and ask for a summary or read it all? Same for books?
Maybe the thing Jessica and I have most in common is low tolerance for bogusness. But we despise it for different reasons. She does because she's the social radar. She sees right through it. Whereas I despise it because I'm trying to find answers, and it's noise in the signal.
I've bought so many books that I didn't think there were any surprises left in that department. But I went to a rare book fair yesterday and realized what a bad selector cost is for books. I only found three I wanted, and they were among the cheapest books in the place.
New podcast on sales - Sell the Truth.
00:00 Be Credible
03:18 “Yes, And”
04:31 Selfish Honesty
05:37 Charisma Is Confidence + Love
07:56 Don’t Manage, Lead
11:16 Hunt Together
14:51 Feed Your (Good) Obsessions
18:57 Sell the Truth
21:07 Good Deal or No Deal
23:39 The Age of Nonlinear Returns
@GWirjawan don’t you believe that technology education is another important ingredient to boost this growth like how India did with IIT or US with Stem ?
Uncertainty cannot be eliminated. But a wise nation learns to translate it into something measurable, allocable, and ultimately buildable.
That was the heart of my conversation with @psjahrir of Danantara in Palo Alto. A role in Indonesia's quest for technological innovation that can never be underrated.
New York had data in 1935 that Karachi won’t have even in 2035 if all the Mayor and Chief Minister think they need to do for development is visit under construction flyovers, underpasses & expressways. Governance isn’t just project management.