Today at a Glance:
Quote: Always know your worth, or better yet, abide by it
Reading: Taxonomizing Procrastination
Learning: Hypoallergenic Eggs
Tweet: Saving money with AutoGPT
Product: Step Banking
#QUOTE
Give yourself enough respect to walk away from anyone who doesn't see your worth.
Always know your worth, and build a mental model of when to do something versus walk away. If you say yes to everything, you’re saying that your time is worthless.
#READING
Meta Open Sources Another AI Model, Moats and Open Source, Apple and Meta
//stratechery
Meta open-sourced ImagineBind combines multiple data streams, such as text, audio, visual data, temperature, and movement readings. This means that AI will be able to create immersive and multisensory experiences soon.
Meta is moving toward open source while OpenAI and Google are becoming more secretive, which shows the strategic direction Meta is moving toward. This is highlighted in a leaked document from Google's CEO showing his concern.
While OpenAI and Google are the big players today in AI, Meta, and Apple stand to benefit longer-term significantly. I also bet that Amazon will be a big player soon enough.
//dynomight
The article explores the concept of procrastination through the lens of an internal entity named Jim who imposes taxes on activities based on perceived rewards and effort. It provides a taxonomy of procrastination and offers various strategies to overcome it, emphasizing the importance of understanding motivations and finding ways to reduce the tax imposed by Jim.
The 4 categories of procrastination are:
Doing the thing is too unpleasant compared to not doing the thing
You don’t really believe that doing the thing will work
Even if you successfully did the thing, you don’t really think it will matter
The timeline is too long
Blackbird Aircraft Stories: Speedcheck
//thesr71blackbird
A fun little story about the SR-71 Speedcheck.
#LEARNING
New kind of chicken lays eggs that don’t have allergy protein
//freethink
We almost have hypoallergenic eggs! Researchers from Japan have used gene-editing technology to create chickens that lay eggs without the protein most likely to trigger an egg allergy.
While most don't have an egg allergy, those who do pose life-threatening consequences, and in many parts of the world, eggs are in everything.
New nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water
//stanford
It’s 2023 and it blows my mind how difficult it is to access clean water. This is effectively a magnetic powder that kills bacteria when exposed to sunlight and can be reused.
#TWEET
https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1652387444904583169?s=12&t=UQ0RvUWLe6Br9a9hZQJm3Q
There are so many use cases for AI and this is a great one showing how to automate personal finance. The world is never going to be the same. Today, companies take advantage of us by hoping that we forget we're paying them, tomorrow, the user will take back control.
https://twitter.com/brianbeers/status/1649383095609483264?s=46&t=UQ0RvUWLe6Br9a9hZQJm3Q
It isn't worth overcomplicating finance. Keep it simple and ask basic questions. Anything more complicated may offer some value, but it is diminishing returns.
#PRODUCT
This is a banking app for the next generation -- interesting concept because I've seen a ton of these fail. Let's hope this one ends up working! With this app, users can earn 5% APY, get a credit card, and build credit even before they turn 18. Here is a TechCrunch article highlighting the app.