Nathan S. Collier

I stand with Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in Russia on March 29 during a reporting trip. He remains in a Moscow prison on espionage charges. The Wall Street Journal and the U.S. government vehemently deny the allegations and called for his immediate release #IStandwithEvan

“the AI wall,” the limit to how much gen AI can help people perform tasks outside their area of expertise. Can AI flatten skill hierarchies? Enable “universal task fluidity.” Or is gen AI’s effectiveness highly dependent on user pre-existing expertise re the chosen task?

“Of 60 foreign-backed leadership change attempts since 1945, only seven produced democracies that endured for at least a decade. In cases allegedly involving the US, just two of 26 did. In the Middle East, none resulted in a consolidated democracy.” — Walter Frick, Bloomberg Weekend

“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” – Albert Camus, 1913-1960

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." - Thomas Jefferson

The more you know...

To my billionaire friends: keep your receipts. (jk I don’t have billionaire friends.) But seriously: 4 years later CA is hunting down those who left. “Narrative of the circumstances surrounding you becoming non-residents”… what a joke. This is what a failing state looks like.

Just do things…

CONSISTENCY = SUCCESS.

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Write a good one.

Big changes start with actions too small to fail.