July-Aug 2024

• See and Think: Embodied Agent in Virtual Environment: https://rese1f.github.io/STEVE/
• Lululemon Woes: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lululemon-shares-fall-as-athleisure-retailer-cuts-outlook-bb80c966
• Founder Mode: https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html
• The Future of AI is Vertical: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/part-i-the-future-of-ai-is-vertical
• Phi-3.5 SLMs: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/discover-the-new-multi-lingual-high-quality-phi-3-5-slms/ba-p/4225280
• For Retailers and Brands, The Next Recession May Have Already Begun: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregpetro/2024/08/09/for-retailers-and-brands-the-next-recession-may-already-have-begun/
• Pivoting Retail Supply Chain with Deep Generative Techniques: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.00861

June 2024

• The Only Way to Win is to Not Play: https://fintechtakes.com/articles/2023-06-16/the-only-way-to-win-is-to-not-play/
• A Theoretical "Case Against Education”: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/a-theoretical-case-against-education
• Work is Work: https://codahale.com//work-is-work/
• You can have two Big Things, but not three: https://longform.asmartbear.com/two-big-things/
• Jevons Paradox: https://charlesrubenfeld.substack.com/p/jevons-paradox-the-most-important
• Human Alarm Clocks: https://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/05/human-alarm-clocks.html
• Explaining the horribly wasteful U.S. heath care system: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/06/14/explaining-the-horribly-wasteful-u-s-heath-care-system-as-a-combination-of-rich-countries-spend-more-on-health-care-and-diminishing-returns-to-health-care-spending/
• AI’s $600B Question: https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question/
• Death, Taxes, and AI: How Generative AI Will Change Accounting: https://a16z.com/generative-ai-in-accounting/