I’m pretty sure a lot of the news is really a collection of events we’d never have heard about before that form a little mini narrative for a while.

This is quite something .
Algos are tearing us apart #19392

Seems like the least worse way to sell a house. Far better than it taking months and folk backing out or gazumping

Have never been one to call for heads, but think Sundar Pichai should probably resign.

How is the AI still up, it's nuts.

People are saying AI is going to take entry level roles, interns roles and grad level roles

So how exactly is someone ever supposed to get on the career ladder?

Are we just going to completely shaft the next generation with impossibly expensive homes and no careers?

I'm open to these being far far far more accurate predictions than similar predictions for

VR headsets
Blockchain
Web3
The 'MeTAvERsE'

Entirely possible to imagine current Roomba owners having a ( fairly crap) humanoid thing in 10 years.

Companies do all manner of insanely stupid things because irrelevant KPIs ask them to

Google AI generated answers make Yahoo Answers look smart

People believe what they want to believe anyway

Lack of evidence never mattered

Evidence to the contrary doesn’t either

People want to be comfortable not “right”

Google seems utterly lost

Search has gone from brilliant and invaluable to nearly unusable in <6 months.

I'm drawn to the idea of building a 'Calm' Company:

• Sustainable growth
• Working with friends
• Small core team (<10 people)
• Remote-first
• No fixed work hours
• Asynchronous communication
• Very few meetings
• No managers or PMs
• Transparent decision-making
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