Arvind Verma

Excellent essay from @danbjork on the implications of AI for low and middle income countries—a critical topic that deserves way more attention. dan.bjorkegren.com/blog/2026/04/t…

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”​ — Ursula K. Le Guin

“Look for what you notice but no one else sees.” — Rick Rubin Listen to my interview with legendary music producer Rick Rubin: tim.blog/2023/01/12/ric…

Whoever owns the agent layer will own 2027.” Agents will become companies & their owners will be the new billionaires.

Freedom is being disliked by other people

You are the only one who can change yourself

“You escape competition through authenticity.”

We cannot alter objective facts. But subjective interpretations can be altered as much as one likes.

A Russian guy has discovered a method to learn anything ten times faster using AI! It involves NotebookLM, Gemini and Obsidian.

“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” — Bruce Lee

Physical AI is the biggest opportunity most people are sleepwalking past. "Physical AI is a $50 trillion market." - Jensen at @theallinpod Robots. Autonomous vehicles. Embodied AI. The infrastructure to power all of it. Nvidia isn't just selling GPUs anymore. They're building the OS for the physical AI era.

The current internet wasn't built for agents. "There’s a huge opportunity for startups to create these proxies… if someone would give me a scoped Gmail, I’d adopt it today." "There are websites today where the majority of the revenue, and certainly the majority of profits, come from cross-selling. If this website is suddenly only used by agents, that doesn't work anymore, right?" "All of these large consumer sites... they don't want agents, essentially." "One interesting question here is: will the big incumbents catch up and offer their functionality for agents, or do we actually need new companies that cater to agents specifically?" "Do we actually need to replace some of the big sort of SaaS building blocks of e-commerce, of online services, and redo them for agents?" @stuffyokodraws @appenz on the AI + a16z Podcast

𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼 Probably one of the best book on Game Theory. Access the PDF here: arxiv.org/pdf/1512.06808 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿: - Introduction to Non-Cooperative Game Theory - Strategic-Form Games with Ordinal Payoffs - Dominance Relations (Strict and Weak) and Iterated Deletion Procedures - Second-Price Auctions and Pivotal (Clarke) Mechanism - Nash Equilibrium in Finite and Infinite Strategy Sets - Dynamic Games with Perfect Information and Backward Induction - Extensive-Form Games with Imperfect Information Subgame-Perfect Equilibrium - Games with Chance Moves .......

“The moment you begin apologizing for how you manage your time, you are essentially apologizing for your priorities, which means apologizing for your life.” — Maria Popova (@themarginalian) Listen to this special episode on how to simplify your life in 2026: tim.blog/2026/03/10/how…

Andrej Karpathy just put out this tool that looks at AI's impact on job. He also deleted the original Github repo very quickly. Basically, he pulled 342 job types from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and had an LLM score each one from 0 to 10 based on AI exposure. The average exposure score is 5.3. Move the score, move the probability it will get wiped out by AI. - Software developers 9/10, - medical transcriptionists are a 10/10. - Lawyers 8/10 - General Office clerks 9/10 Basically any screen-based jobs are in trouble. $3.7T annual wages in high-exposure jobs (7+) pre-computed as ∑(BLS employment count × BLS median annual wage) over exactly those occupations whose Gemini Flash score is ≥7.

You are alive. You have a home. You have a bed. You have food. Be grateful.

.@travisk says AI will make human labor even more valuable and in-demand than ever before: "Let's say the entire world - everything in our world - was automated, except for plumbers. You had machines making buildings - you would basically have like a thousand buildings a day." "How valuable would those plumbers be?" "Each and every plumber would be like LeBron. Why? Because plumbing would be the long pole in the tent to progress. You can't get those thousand buildings unless you have a plumber." "And by the way, you'd get so much efficiency everywhere else that you'd need millions of plumbers." "Humans [are going to] become more and more valuable because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress - and that progress is going to accelerate and get faster and more robust."

Asia is rapidly becoming a laboratory for new business models. Across industries, companies are combining digital ecosystems, community-driven commerce, and AI to scale faster and reach customers in new ways. Discover six models gaining traction. mck.co/4bcU946

Morgan Stanley predicts a massive AI breakthrough driven by a huge spike in computing power across major U.S. laboratories. Increasing the amount of hardware used for training by 10x can effectively double the intelligence of these models. The recently released GPT-5.4

@elonmusk do you think @realDonaldTrump and @DarioAmodei have some common traits ?