👀 interesting tools

• Metaforecasting: Metaculus

• Trolley Problem Simulator: Utilitarian or Deontological

• Tensorflow Playground: Neural Network

• Data Visualisation: Who Old Are You

• Is a hot-dog a sandwich: Cube Rule

• Distinguish between deepfakes and actual people: Which face is real

• AI-powered research-assistant: Elicit

• Read: Wait but why

⚒️ buidl (creator / builder resources)

• logo-generator: logoai.com

• create an emoji: emojination

📈 hodl*

• ETFs: LIT

• watch: $GRT, proofofhumanity.id

  *this is not investment advice. 🤪

BOOKS

2021

• Reality+, David Chalmers

• Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

• The Precipice, Toby Ord

• Human Compatible, Stuart Russel

• 21 Lessons of the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari

• Chaos Monkeys, Antonio Garcia Martinez

2020

• Hooked, Nir Eyal. Fantastic insights into user behaviour - relevant if you’re trying to design a habit-forming product or system. Bible for how to build an addictive product.

• Zero to One, Peter Thiel. An amazing amount of knowledge - theory, history, and ideology - packed into a short, easy read. Focuses on distribution over product (contra Hooked). Explains fundamental business concepts (valuations, DCF, the structure of a company) and provides frameworks for how to think about ambition and a career as a new grad.

• Thinking Fast and Slow, Dan Kahneman - Great to dip into & reference when writing; a comprehensive theory of how our systems for thinking and acting affect behaviour.

• The Alchemist, Paul Cuelho. Cuelho writes about his truths - universal truths - so plainly, organically and simplistically, that it's hard not to fully understand and feel them. Simple principles for how to live. Read again.

• The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Muyashi. Interesting to read about the spiritual insights of ancient martial artists; key takeaways were around the discipline, commitment, and focus required for excellence.

• The Art of War, Sun Tzu. Beautifully written and several strategic insights into military science (but understanding the lessons in a business context requires contemplation).

• The White Tiger, Arvind Adiga. Dark and mildly traumatic, hardly ‘humourous’. Confronts an Indian reader with uncomfortable, ugly truths. Abandoned towards the end.

• Naomi, Junichiro Tanizaki. The Japanese-literature version of Lolita; helpful in understanding gender role expectations, conformity, and ‘mogas’ in the 1920s and 1930s in Japan.

• The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu. Interesting commentary on the behaviour of humans - individually, and as a species when confronted with an alien force, interweaving politics with technology, using fundamental physics as central to building an enthralling plot.

• Other - Life 3.0, David Baldacci, Jeffrey Archer, PG Wodehouse