I know this is a joke but the answer is that the tech bros consider all creative work tedious. Their entire worldview revolves around maximizing profit with as little work as possible

A memory that will always haunt me is my first fine dining experience when the soundtrack was completely inappropriate. (Think delicate tasting menu + loud MGMT) Thankfully I had foret! to write management an 800-word appeal that got the music changed on.ft.com/3wgNYLo

Amazing fireside chat at the Mindstone London AI meetup as always with Eleanor Warnock and Olivier Hénaff @NeurIPS '25 :)

This was such a good time, and a nice opportunity to reflect on why I think AI research can be used to deepen our understanding of the human experience. Thanks so much Eleanor Warnock for inviting me and Joshua Wöhle for hosting!

Fascinating look at how little we know about how Amazon makes $ in part due to SEC rules that let companies decide what they want to count as a segment. That lets them lump large parts of the business together in reporting

This historical detail from Marc Rubinstein’s look at Nomura as a barometer for “Japan is back” is brilliant. Good weekend reading too 👇 open.substack.com/pub/netinteres…

Generation Alpha (yup, new one on me too) is busy founding AI startups... Fascinating report from Tim Smith Sifted sifted.eu/articles/teena…

Nividia announcement made me update an old classic

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“New York increasingly feels like a sexy jail or a 9/11-themed Sbarro.” thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/…

This is giving 2012 Silicon Roundabout vibes. Is Shoreditch back?

This was an incredible event, and Nicole Torres does such a great job of capturing all the complicated dynamics at play here. Love seeing more large-scale art events like this outside of the dominant art hubs like London/Paris. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Please make this your coffee break reading today. noemamag.com/not-my-problem/

Meet Bek Ventures! 🚀 The best-performing VC fund globally has a new name. Introducing the quietly thought-provoking venture firm. We’re excited to build on the legacy we have established during our decade as Digital East Fund (ex-Earlybird).

Let’s be honest, behind all the shit chat of VCs, we just want to know how much money they make on investments. Cem Sertoglu does not hold back today. The man turned $16.5M into $2.1BN with UiPath! This is just an insane story & my 7 key takeaways 👇

Our Managing Partner Cem Sertoglu sat down with Harry Stebbings of @twentyminuteVC to talk early-stage VC + how Bek supports a select group of exceptional founders. Listen to the full episode to hear more about this and VC’s ‘greatest ever deal’ 👀 youtube.com/watch?v=P9MK3n…

I have an essay about how Netflix destroyed the movies in the new issue of n+1. Read it online and in print! nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essay…

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