Quick update: I am spending a fair bit of time going deep on a sidequest; this leaves me with little time to update my Substack.
What does this mean: I will continue the weekly schedule. However, I will share more “assorted links” based on what I’ve been reading on the web, and an occasional music or book review. I will less frequently share long-form writings.
With that out of the way, let’s get into the best assorted links for the week gone by.
Assorted Links
Why pi^2 = g: A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: Brilliant!
Why AI isn’t going to make art, by Ted Chiang in the New Yorker. Great stuff, especially the last few paragraphs
Founder Mode, by Paul Graham. I get the spirit of the article, but I didn’t agree with most of it; I found the Steve Jobs example to be a case of cherry-picking. Satya and Tim Cook are great examples of “Founder Mode” + “Manager Mode”. It comes down clarity around what you want to own/run (as a founder) and what you want to delegate (in manager mode).
Why Restaurants Fail, by Shashank Mehta
Interview: With Epic Games Founder/CEO Tim Sweeney and Author Neal Stephenson, by Matthew Ball
“Bags Fly Free” and “Soup is Good Food” — The two archetypal marketing messages: Good read!
Video of the week
3blue1brown dropped a new video in the Deep Learning series…
Keep reading, and until next week!