Barcelona and the Crippling Cost of Success nytimes.com/2021/02/12/spo…

How Chess.com built a streaming empire protocol.com/chess-streamin…

Robinhood’s Big Gamble newyorker.com/magazine/2021/… via The New Yorker

Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid | Free to read ft.com/content/f1b30f… via @financialtimes

Today with EMBL-EBI, we're launching the #AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, which offers the most complete and accurate picture of the human proteome, doubling humanity’s accumulated knowledge of high-accuracy human protein structures - for free: dpmd.ai/alphafolddb 1/

Talking with strangers can make us happier, more connected to our communities, mentally sharper, healthier, less lonely, and more trustful and optimistic, @JoeKeohane writes. So why don’t we do it more? theatlantic.com/family/archive…

He Hiked 2,100 Miles In 209 Days To Complete The Appalachian Trail. He's Only 5 npr.org/2021/08/25/103…

126 Running Statistics You Should Know | livestrong livestrong.com/article/137303…

An emerging industry of nuclear-fusion firms promises to have commercial reactors ready in the next decade. nature.com/immersive/d415… via @nature

A helicopter on Mars, human–monkey embryos, volcanic ash and more. nature.com/immersive/d415… via @nature

Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare restofworld.org/2021/singapore… via Rest of World

Review: MNT Reform laptop has fully open hardware and software—for better or worse arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

The Tail End — Wait But Why waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-ta… via Tim Urban

My conversation with Aswath Damodaran We cover almost every major topic in markets including - why it’s unexpected inflation we should fear - valuing FANGAM stocks over time - alpha / edge - why ESG is bullsh*t Aswath is a breath of fresh air Enjoy! joincolossus.com/episodes/75305…

Once In A Lifetime collaborativefund.com/blog/once-in-a… via Collab Fund

The high-return activity of raising others’ aspirations - marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

The Tail End — Wait But Why waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-ta… via Tim Urban

It is hard for people today to comprehend how slow an original IBM PC was. By some measures, a 4090 is a billion times faster, which means a PC working continuously for 40 years could be replaced by one second of modern computing. And yet, this could be done.

Attenuating Innovation (AI) stratechery.com/2023/attenuati… via Stratechery

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