Continuing with my new protocol, here I’m going to share content I consumed and learned from.

What I struggled with:

• No material struggles this week

What I consumed this week and what I learned from it:

• Stablecoins = Eurodollar 2.0 – YouTube video from Bankless where these podcasters interview Brent Johnson. I’m curious about stablecoins and want to learn more about them, and Johnson’s name popped up repeatedly. What stuck with me about this interview was the impact of the passage of the Genius Act, how stablecoins are a digital version of Eurodollars, and the global implications of this.
• Move from implicit intuition to explicit decision-making – YouTube video of an Odds on Open Podcast interview with Annie Duke. When you’re deciding in uncertainty, do an expected-value calculation. Write down your thinking about it. It’s easier to spot your own mistakes and for others to spot flaws in your thinking if you write it down. Writing down your decision logic reduces errors in your thinking and makes it easier to spot errors that creep in so you can fix them. Asking people who know you well to write down their thoughts about a decision you’re considering is a way of making decisions explicitly. Creating a pre-mortem is another example.
• Writing code is over – YouTube video from No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups interview with Andrej Karpathy. It’s a wide-ranging, helpful interview. My big takeaway is that even the people who’ve been immersed in AI for over a decade are drinking from a firehose the last few months. Also, managing multiple agents simultaneously is a difficult but valuable skill.

That’s what I consumed and learned from and struggled with last week.