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Blogs are better than ever for learning about topics that are still developing (LLMs, startups).
I vacillate between the two as I get into different topics.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems to be financial letters subscription 'grift' remastered in podcast. Pass.
As someone who was/is in the circus world as well as software development, there are certain things that you can never learn without having access to the right people. In circus, I had to travel to specific cities and work with specific coaches and pay them quite a premium to get access to the information that they knew - there is literally no alternative once you get to a high enough level. My thoughts on the financ…
It relies on what articles particularily. There was an article about the advancement of AI in China after chinese researchers build a langage model able to produce some poetry in chinese. Since that model was build 1 1/2 years after an equivalent model in english by us computer engineers, the author of the article concluded China was far behind in matter of AI developement and there was nothing to be afraid of... What ???
No related to financial press chanel, I have just watched a documentary comparing development of big chains of grocery stores in the EU (carrefour, intermarche, and so on), US (amazon fresh), and some large Chinese grocery stores chain (with its vertical integration). The chinese stores chain is clearly ahead of amazon fresh, which is itself clearly ahead of EU stores. In China, AI is everywhere in the supply chain, from automatic surveillance (camera and microphone) of pigs elevage to detect disease at very early sign, to automatic delivery through self-driving car. Everywhere were they can save a buck or reduce production cost.
> Financial Times
Financial Times produced a ton of articles about crypto, and I would be very curious to knows what were their incentives for a big chunk of them... 'Lunch with ~Ponzi~ SBF' is still a subject of ridicule amongst it readers.
Beside, I buy sometimes the paper version, and once I encoutered a tiny ad about a business with no name active in 30 countries looking for partners with a gmail address for contact... Did it sound legit to the guy who accepted to put the ad in the printed version ?
The information on the internet is unbounded. You know this, you are aware even if subliminally, no matter how you control your browser by blocking ads, pop ups etc. An unbounded information horizon is destabilizing. There is always more (possibly better) information a click away. It's hard to justify keeping attention on just one article. I even read a paper newspaper article with more attention than the same article online.
Of course pop ups, ads, the incredible commodification of attention, has made this much worse, but the problem is inherent to the internet.
When I open a book, there are two covers, marking beginning and end. It's awesome. In between is a place for deep attention.
There have been books that have enriched my life. It's deep focus, not shallow scanning. I think there is something soul crushing about the shallow attention we are left with after years on the job. (Slack & Teams are part of the problem.)
I feel the opposite. I'm reading fewer non-fiction books and more articles and blog posts. Non-fiction books are bloated with fluff to increase the page count to increase the perceived marketability of the book. A lot of the ideas presented in those books could be adequately presented in a 10th of the number of pages. A huge time-saver has been reading the article versions of stuff that has been turned into a book. Y…
What's strange is that I'm not a very visual learner - I only understand things if I read about them. But even that instinct is now giving way to video content for learning new things now.
I feel the opposite. I'm reading fewer non-fiction books and more articles and blog posts. Non-fiction books are bloated with fluff to increase the page count to increase the perceived marketability of the book. A lot of the ideas presented in those books could be adequately presented in a 10th of the number of pages. A huge time-saver has been reading the article versions of stuff that has been turned into a book. Y…
I'm reading more fiction books now. I want to detach the idea of "learning" from my reading habit and read just for the pleasure of it.
There's still something about good prose that connects with you unlike anything else.
What you may notice from the other replies is that many of them conflict with each other. The reason is that this has much more to do with the rhythms of your own life and interests than with global trends. When I first started reading HN I would read several links a day. I don't think the quality of the links has changed that much -- indeed, many of the links are reruns that I've seen here 2, 5 or 10 years ago -- in…
I read a book a week. But I could still argue there are more treasures like the 2 above. They are rare, but they do exist.