P.S. You Should Know... | Issue #420
Fish
my story 🚀
📱 One of these days old age will catch up with me and I will no longer be able to keep up with technology. Not today! Last weekend I ‘vibe coded’ a game that you and your friends can play right now.
🧑🌾 Farmdoku is a farm-themed version of sudoku.
It was built using Replit Agent and it was an incredible learning experience. Also, it was a test of my patience that felt like the ‘90s internet as I waited for the agent to do its thing for several minutes in response to each of my messages.
fun facts 🙌
The ‘largest illicit online marketplace’ ever. “Huione Guarantee, a gray market researchers believe is central to the online scam ecosystem, now includes a messaging app, stablecoin, and crypto exchange—while facilitating $24 billion in transactions.” ~ learn more
Corey Booker’s Oura ring data from his 25-hour senate speech. “Even though he stood for much of the speech, Booker's ring picked up a ton of movement. Between March 31 and April 1, Booker's ring tracked him taking over 20,000 steps, with 12,000 alone on the second day. After he hit a wall during the third hour of the speech and felt his feet go numb, Booker says he knew he needed to start moving.” ~ learn more
Fire Island: new urbanist paradise or NIMBY success? “On its face, Fire Island is a “New Urbanist” paradise. It’s left me with no doubt that walkable mixed-use neighborhoods3 are incredible, especially ones like Fire Island which have banned cars. But it’s also deeply conservative in many ways: highly insular, does not approve any new housing, and has pretty strict rules.” ~ learn more
tech, startups, internet ⚡
The AI Scientist generates its first peer-reviewed scientific publication. “Critically, the AI-generated papers we submitted were entirely generated end-to-end by AI, without any modifications from humans. The AI Scientist-v2 came up with the scientific hypothesis, proposed the experiments to test the hypothesis, wrote and refined the code to conduct those experiments, ran the experiments, analyzed the data, visualized the data in figures, and wrote every word of the entire scientific manuscript, from the title to the final reference, including placing figures and all formatting.” ~ learn more
Augie, the first collaborative AI teammate for logistics. I have no idea if this is good but it sure sounds good. “What exactly does Augie do? Augie can read/write documents, respond to emails, make calls and receive calls, log into systems, do data entry and document uploads. Christina can assign the heavy load of tedious work to Augie, leaving Christina in the drivers seat on the important stuff.” ~ learn more
better doing 🎯
Hire people who give a shit. “While it is not guaranteed that someone who gives shit will do great work, it is guaranteed that they will not do good work if they do not give a shit.” ~ learn more
What coachability isn’t. “Over the years as an investor, I’ve seen a fair share of founders who are coachable and not coachable. In today’s post, I’ll take you behind curtain of one such occasion of what coachability doesn’t look like.” ~ learn more
teaching the kids 👩🏫
Synthetic phonics. This is outside my circle of competence and I think also risks flying too close to political zeitgeist but it’s quite interesting if true, so here we go. “Boys can learn to beat girls at reading if they are given old-fashioned teaching methods…” ~ learn more
big ideas 📚
Age of anomalies. “The civilization that prevails in this century will be the one that most effectively converts crisis into a catalyst for transformation. These catalysts are not to be found among the comforting certainties of consensus.” ~ learn more
on the blockchain ⛓
More praise for zkTLS. “zkTLS is the first crypto-native technology that's actually onboarding the masses, and I think it's still wildly underrated.” ~ learn more
profiles of people 🚶
The search for opportunity. “Michael Aubrey shares his unconventional path—from investment banking to his family’s parking business—before using a search fund to acquire StatLab Medical Products. He discusses the challenges of entrepreneurship, including nearly running out of capital, and lessons from scaling businesses.” ~ learn more