The real business model of OpenAI is getting everyone to divulge their innermost secrets and business plans to the model.

The scenes in Dagestan suggest Russians could have brought down Putin, if they had wanted to.

Yeah. And having grown up in Dresden: maybe don’t build your argument on this.

Labor productivity up 4.7% last quarter. Real wages at record highs. Unemployment near record lows. Now headline inflation coming in at 0% this month. The US economy is absolutely CRUSHING it.

Are you even an AI Influencer if you haven’t breathlessly thread-analyzed and tweet-speculated on every minute detail of the OpenAI shenanigans?

I would argue further: A company that has training and discipline in M&A often takes a more risk-forward approach to new endeavours (ventures), as downside is relatively known, upside unknown, and culture permits it as it has proof points.

A brilliant cartoon by Philip Zec. As relevant in 2024 as it was in 1940.

It’s still amazing to see what declining cost functions can achieve. And we’re not even close to the end of “Moores Law for Solar”.

For all the folks who read Vaclav Smil and claim that we're doomed because energy transitions take hundreds of years. Here's the share of coal of UK electricity generation. It went from 39% in 2012 to 1% in 2023.

Data retention, tamperproof from even in-house engineers, is the value add.

The *General Public* was never the target audience of publications like this.

Two things we keep getting consistently wrong: 1⃣ Vastly overestimating future coal demand 2⃣ Massively underestimating future generation of solar PV Love these graphics from RethinkX

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My favorite legal thing that feels illegal is using the Calendly links from salespeople who email me nonstop and booking them calls with each other

the pizza index is never wrong

“Open Secret”. It’s about as secret as those Cables after Assange. A lot of consulting projects only are put together because someone, somewhere needs a liability sponge for his (let’s be honest here: his) career to advance.