A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
21 September 2021
Tesla beats Mustang thanks to charging network — the traditional car OEMs really don’t seem to understand how big a software hole they are in. It is not just autonomy or entertainment systems, but the entire end-to-end lifecycle of the car – presales website, configurator, post-sale site and services, charging network software, mobile app, in-car software, etc. It is all driven by software and Tesla is ahead on all of it.
I am glad to see Xevo alum end up in so many great places — Amperity, Docusign, Curbside, Axon, Afresh, Clearscale, Discovery, Dignifi, Indeed, Amazon, News Break, Crowdstrike, Stoke Space Tech, Slalom, Google, Oracle, and more I probably missed. Good luck to you all!
Some of this art is beautiful and entrancing, Foundation seems like a good exchange to find NFT art. A lot of it is generative content, created by neural nets, using a lot of shaders. It can create very engaging content. I love dorking around with shaders and neural nets as much as anyone, and i have no skill/practice in creating art, so I really admire this work, but I can’t wrap my head around paying $5k-30K for a rendered video capture of one of these. Maybe I would pay that much for source code access.
Who is paying these prices (and more) for generative content (much of which has much less artistic content than the ones I prefer)? Yet another argument that this is all just unfounded speculation.
It is easy to discount all this NFT and crypto stuff as speculation. But the quality of talent diving into it is significant.
What could go wrong? NASA is going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid.
Interesting thread from Tren Griffin on size of the space economy. If I was young and starting my career again, this would be very exciting.
Booker Prize shortlist. I find a lot of Booker nominees to be unreadable but probably some gold in here somewhere
Hand drawn illustration library, free for commercial and personal use.
How to open google docs in different google accounts – i had no idea docs.new/1 or docs.new/2 would work
The three minute song may not be the best.
No links, gosh there is a lot of contrary advice on the web about how to smoke brisket. My first attempt earned a “C” at best.
QED venture investment lessons. I love most of these.