My morning practice WFH reads:
• I Requested ChatGPT to Handle a Inventory Portfolio. Right here’s How It Did. What adopted was a monthslong back-and-forth on every little thing from tariffs to leveraged funds . Spoiler: it picked momentum and received overwhelmed by a nasty market. Helpful as a actuality test on the AI-as-PM pitch deck. I deliberate to check it for a couple of weeks. (Wall Road Journal)
• Storied Toolmaker Closes Its Final Hometown Plant—and Blames Its Tape Measures: WHat a bullshit excuse — Stanley Black & Decker says fewer consumers need the Connecticut plant’s single-sided tape measures, preferring double-sided ones made overseas. (Wall Road Journal) however see what actually occurred Your Energy Instruments Bought Worse on Goal: The 2010 merger of Stanley Works and Black & Decker created an organization that already owned DeWalt. From there they went on an acquisition spree that ought to have constructed an empire. As a substitute it constructed a bloated holding firm drowning in debt and management turnover. (Worse on Goal)
• The Quickest V-Formed Restoration Ever: First semis, then software program; Peak Social Media; Your SaaSflation Is My Alternative. (It’s time to construct.)
• Demand destruction vs fuel-superseding infrastructure: In beginning this silly, unforgivable battle, Trump has vastly accelerated the method of demand destruction. Relatively than shopping for American oil, the entire world has undertaken a simultaneous, fast, irreversible shift to electrical substitutes for fossil gasoline purposes, from induction tops to balcony photo voltaic to ebikes and EVs: Doctorow on why constructing the choice is extra sturdy than punishing the incumbent. Vitality-transition technique as coverage aikido. (Pluralistic)
• Scientists Are Beginning to Unlock the Nanoscale Secrets and techniques of the Immune System: Immunologist Daniel Davis detailed the methods by which new applied sciences are enabling a greater understanding of the human immune system. On the molecular-scale reckoning taking place in immunology and the therapeutic implications are years out, however the science is now. (Wired)
• ‘The Most Bipartisan Challenge Since Beer’: Opposition to Knowledge Facilities: Liberals and conservatives, lastly united — by NIMBYism over the AI build-out. The grid math, water draw, and tax breaks are uniting individuals who by no means agree. (New York Instances)
• The unflattering secrets and techniques revealed up to now in Elon Musk’s newest authorized feud: Shira Ovide digs by way of the courtroom filings in Musk vs. Altman / OpenAI for what’s already embarrassing for Musk. A whole lot of courtroom filings have revealed cringey texts, emails or personal diary entries of Musk, Sam Altman, different OpenAI founders and different public figures. (Washington Publish)
• A Stanford Experiment to Pair 5,000 Singles Has Taken Over Campus: A pupil constructed a matchmaking algorithm that has consumed the varsity—and highlighted the challenges of discovering love for prime achievers. (Wall Road Journal)
• F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Analysis Discovering Covid and Shingles Vaccines Have been Protected: The company’s scientists and information contractors reviewed tens of millions of affected person data for research that have been pulled again earlier than launch. Suppressing favorable security information as a result of it conflicts with political messaging is its personal form of malpractice. The institutional rot continues to floor. The company’s scientists and information contractors reviewed tens of millions of affected person data for research that have been pulled again earlier than launch. (New York Instances)
• Work Received’t Love You Again: Greta Rainbow on ‘The Satan Wears Prada 2’ For individuals who’ve seen each Met Gala match but crave one other style repair, the author stories from Instances Sq. on the sequel’s view of labor, love, and, in fact, appears to be like. The smarter tackle the sequel — what it unintentionally says in regards to the labor economics of the status journal world. (Filmmaker) see additionally That’s All: A Information to Each Easter Egg in The Satan Wears Prada 2: For these preserving rating on the sequel. Pure leisure, however a helpful index of the place pop-culture nostalgia at present sits. From superstar cameos to that emotional ending, a spoiler-filled rundown of references to the unique movie and particular friends becoming a member of the sequel. (Self-importance Honest)
Remember to take a look at our Grasp’s in Enterprise interview this weekend with Howard Lindzon, generally known as “The Larry David of Finance.” He’s Normal Associate on the seed fund, Social Leverage, he was one of many first seed traders in Robinhood, which IPOd at $30B in 2021, eToro, Manscaped, and Beehiiv. Beforehand, he based Wallstrip, a day by day on-line video present acquired by CBS (2007). He additionally co-founded Stocktwits, which pioneered the “cashtag.” Acknowledged by Institutional Investor as a “Tremendous Angel;” his podcast is Panic with Buddies.
The Iran battle is accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels
Supply: Paul Krugman
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