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This is Daniel Miessler episode 448. 0:01:16.090 --> 0:01:19.540 Let's do this. Okay. I want to ask everyone to 0:01:19.569 --> 0:01:23.200 resubscribe to the podcast. I don't know all the different 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.170 channels that are listening to this. This could be on 0:01:26.170 --> 0:01:29.590 YouTube for example. There is a podcast feed which you 0:01:29.590 --> 0:01:32.290 can get on Apple or Spotify or whatever. So I 0:01:32.290 --> 0:01:34.090 would just say go sign up for that because the 0:01:34.090 --> 0:01:36.220 URL has changed and I'm putting out a lot more 0:01:36.220 --> 0:01:39.399 content and putting out a lot more clips of different, 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.370 shorter pieces in addition to the weekly episode. So I 0:01:42.370 --> 0:01:44.200 would say go check that out. And if you're listening 0:01:44.230 --> 0:01:48.550 to the podcast, then, uh, apologies, because obviously you're subscribed, 0:01:48.580 --> 0:01:51.400 otherwise you wouldn't be listening. Okay. My new favorite fabric 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:55.420 pattern is one I just made up called Extract Primary Problem. 0:01:55.420 --> 0:01:58.500 And I'm so excited about this thing. So it takes 0:01:58.500 --> 0:02:01.980 any text input or any body of work. So you 0:02:01.980 --> 0:02:06.090 could basically say like Noam Chomsky or you could literally 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.620 like echo the words Noam Chomsky or like the Unabomber 0:02:10.650 --> 0:02:14.940 or whoever. You can send basically any person's body of 0:02:14.940 --> 0:02:18.510 work or like Russian literature or whatever. You send anything 0:02:18.510 --> 0:02:21.000 in there, and it will turn it into a single 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:26.160 sentence that summarizes what that work believes the biggest problem 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.410 in the world to be. And the reason I'm doing 0:02:28.410 --> 0:02:32.609 this is because I'm trying to understand people's work, or 0:02:32.610 --> 0:02:36.180 an essay or something based on a concise description of 0:02:36.180 --> 0:02:38.610 what they think the problem is. I think this is 0:02:38.610 --> 0:02:41.670 a very powerful way to see the world, is to 0:02:41.700 --> 0:02:45.240 understand what do they think the biggest issue is that 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.460 we need to solve, because that's where you start. And 0:02:47.460 --> 0:02:51.090 then you look at, okay, are the solutions that they're providing, 0:02:51.090 --> 0:02:55.049 are they actually good strategies for addressing that? But most importantly, 0:02:55.050 --> 0:02:57.320 what do they think the actual problem is? Because if 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.630 they think the actual problem is like something you don't 0:02:59.630 --> 0:03:04.220 care about, I mean, why are we listening to their work? 0:03:04.250 --> 0:03:07.250 It doesn't mean there isn't like some other way to 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.250 get value from their work. I could think of examples 0:03:10.250 --> 0:03:13.940 where there is, but I would rather listen to Viktor 0:03:13.940 --> 0:03:17.570 Frankl's work, who believes, you know, that there's a lack 0:03:17.570 --> 0:03:20.690 of meaning in the world, for example, which is definitely 0:03:20.690 --> 0:03:25.100 my view. Uh, I invented, uh, I invented basically the 0:03:25.100 --> 0:03:28.580 same thing that Viktor Frankl did. Um, well, probably lots 0:03:28.580 --> 0:03:30.920 of people have done it before Frankl as well, but 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.130 I was basically going down and am still going down 0:03:34.130 --> 0:03:37.580 this path. Then, like a year ago, I read Viktor 0:03:37.580 --> 0:03:41.870 Frankl's work, and it is I mean, it's 100 years 0:03:41.870 --> 0:03:45.980 before I'm doing this work, and it basically found that anyway, 0:03:46.010 --> 0:03:49.400 it doesn't matter. That's a diversion. He nailed it. And 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.300 his problem statement is essentially the same as my problem statement. 0:03:53.300 --> 0:03:57.050 So it raises the question of like, okay, for a 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.950 given person, for a given person who's producing value and 0:04:00.950 --> 0:04:03.440 work in the world, what do they believe the problem is? 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:07.040 So that's what this particular pattern does. The other one 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:11.240 I created recently is a create story explanation, which explains 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.290 a really difficult piece of content in a flowing story style. 0:04:15.290 --> 0:04:19.280 So it basically is like, okay, so they believe this, 0:04:19.310 --> 0:04:23.360 which means this and a few facets of what they 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:28.730 believe is this here and also this here, which means 0:04:28.730 --> 0:04:31.489 this part here. And the reason this is important is 0:04:31.490 --> 0:04:35.450 because of this. So it turns it into a story based, 0:04:35.450 --> 0:04:39.890 conversation based explanation of the topic as opposed to like 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.700 extract wisdom, which is like, you know, listed out in 0:04:43.700 --> 0:04:46.220 a very clear and concise way, but it's still kind 0:04:46.220 --> 0:04:50.060 of sciency or scientific like, oriented as opposed to like 0:04:50.089 --> 0:04:53.550 story and conversation Oriented, so I really like this one 0:04:53.550 --> 0:04:56.789 as well. Highly recommend everyone check out the. We've been 0:04:56.790 --> 0:04:59.700 Lied To About Work essay that I put out last week. 0:04:59.700 --> 0:05:04.260 Getting a lot of positive feedback around that. So appreciate that. Security. 0:05:04.290 --> 0:05:08.100 Researchers have discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in a critical 0:05:08.100 --> 0:05:13.170 air transport security system. This is actually Sam Curry, um, 0:05:13.170 --> 0:05:16.650 and another one of my buddies who actually put this out. 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:20.760 Really cool. I mean, the vuln is, uh. Yeah, remarkably, 0:05:21.270 --> 0:05:24.120 I don't know how that vuln still exists, but they 0:05:24.150 --> 0:05:27.900 are basically able to use SQL injection to add themselves 0:05:27.900 --> 0:05:31.590 to a list of authorized individuals to get cockpit access 0:05:31.589 --> 0:05:33.539 to a plane. The New York Times has revealed a 0:05:33.540 --> 0:05:38.070 significant breach involving GitHub tokens, and attackers are already using 0:05:38.070 --> 0:05:43.020 it to gain access to various repositories. Researchers from OpenAI, Microsoft, MIT, 0:05:43.020 --> 0:05:48.060 and Harvard have proposed personhood credentials to verify real humans 0:05:48.060 --> 0:05:51.849 online without revealing their identities. This might also be needed 0:05:51.850 --> 0:05:56.290 for voting. This might also be needed for handing out UBI. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.400 This might also be needed for social media accounts. There's 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.250 so many reasons to have this. I think this is 0:06:03.250 --> 0:06:05.799 really cool tech. The other thing that's interesting about this 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.969 is Sam Altman has a world coin, which I think 0:06:09.970 --> 0:06:14.020 is crypto based on authenticating yourself. So you could see 0:06:14.050 --> 0:06:17.170 world coin like folding into this as well in a 0:06:17.170 --> 0:06:20.229 way that ties in with UBI. Um, yeah. So it's 0:06:20.230 --> 0:06:24.070 zero knowledge proof, which is a crypto concept. Essentially, you 0:06:24.070 --> 0:06:25.720 don't have to know who it is, but you know 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.630 that it is them. Yeah. One thing I worry about 0:06:28.630 --> 0:06:31.780 is the back end database probably get eventually hacked, because 0:06:31.810 --> 0:06:33.729 at some point you have to have a database that 0:06:33.730 --> 0:06:37.660 you're actually validating against. Thanks to Nudge Security for sponsoring 0:06:37.660 --> 0:06:40.150 the show this week, Record a future has announced a 0:06:40.150 --> 0:06:43.930 new integration with Google's security operations, enhancing both Siem and 0:06:43.930 --> 0:06:48.140 Soar components. North Korean hackers are back to targeting the 0:06:48.140 --> 0:06:52.400 NPM code repository with malicious packages. The US Army Special 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.029 Forces showed their hacking skills during the Swift response 24 0:06:56.029 --> 0:07:00.230 military exercises in Sweden. They used a remote access device 0:07:00.230 --> 0:07:03.440 to hack into a building's Wi-Fi, disable security systems, and 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:08.420 then stormed the building, leaving leaving behind signal jamming equipment 0:07:08.420 --> 0:07:11.810 and a laptop playing Never Gonna Give You Up, so 0:07:11.810 --> 0:07:14.420 they rickrolled them on the way out. Chinese companies are 0:07:14.420 --> 0:07:18.080 planning to launch over 15,000 low Earth orbit satellites with 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:22.700 Mercedes page from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute warning that 0:07:22.700 --> 0:07:26.450 this can enable countries using Chinese broadband services to control 0:07:26.450 --> 0:07:30.410 information flow, monitor user activity and even shut down the internet. 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.680 Internet during unrest. Yeah, I think that's the whole purpose 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.590 of it. Las Vegas police are pushing back against a 0:07:36.590 --> 0:07:40.790 new NFL policy requiring officers working Raiders games to provide 0:07:40.790 --> 0:07:45.650 photos for facial recognition. They don't want potential misuse of 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:51.610 that data. I mean, the biometric data is a picture 0:07:51.610 --> 0:07:55.330 of them. I don't know. I don't know why they're 0:07:55.330 --> 0:07:57.760 so worried about that. Maybe there's more to it. I 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.970 don't think so, though. I mean, you call anything biometric 0:08:00.970 --> 0:08:02.800 data and people are like, oh, I don't want that 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.260 out there. It's like, yeah, that's just your face, man. 0:08:05.290 --> 0:08:07.750 It's just your face. And it's not actually your face. 0:08:07.750 --> 0:08:10.240 It's a picture of your face. Google has announced new 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:15.190 variants of its Gemini 1.5 model, including the smaller Gemini 0:08:15.220 --> 0:08:20.080 1.58 B and improved Gemini 1.5 flash and a stronger 0:08:20.110 --> 0:08:22.960 1.5 Pro. I have not messed with this yet. And 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.330 by the way, we are in the AI and tech section. 0:08:25.330 --> 0:08:28.480 I've not messed with the new Gemini 1.5 Pro. I 0:08:28.510 --> 0:08:31.090 hear it's really good, so I'm going to do that 0:08:31.090 --> 0:08:36.219 within fabric soon. OpenAI keeps making everyone wait spelled w 0:08:36.220 --> 0:08:40.059 e I g h t. I don't know why I 0:08:40.059 --> 0:08:43.390 think that's funny. It's very stupid for their new model. 0:08:43.420 --> 0:08:46.950 Half model, whatever is going to come out soon, maybe 0:08:46.950 --> 0:08:51.420 called Orion and maybe using the new strawberry technology. So 0:08:51.420 --> 0:08:56.490 we're all waiting for that. California's AI regulation bill, SB 1047, 0:08:56.490 --> 0:08:59.969 has passed the state Senate with 29 to 9 vote, 0:08:59.970 --> 0:09:02.250 and now is going to Gavin Newsom. And this is 0:09:02.250 --> 0:09:05.370 basically a set of rules saying companies making models of 0:09:05.370 --> 0:09:08.490 a certain size must have certain safety measures in place, 0:09:08.490 --> 0:09:10.559 like you have to have a kill switch and stuff 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.610 like that. It seems rather logical. Elon actually backed it, 0:09:14.610 --> 0:09:18.090 which was surprising. OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise 0:09:18.090 --> 0:09:21.569 a new funding round at a valuation exceeding 100 billion, 0:09:21.570 --> 0:09:25.290 led by Thrive Capital, with Microsoft also expected to participate. 0:09:25.290 --> 0:09:28.170 And Nvidia and Apple have also been rumored to be 0:09:28.170 --> 0:09:31.920 involved in potentially wanting to invest. OpenAI has enhanced its 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.520 assistance API, making it easier for developers to fine tune 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.360 how AI assistants handle file searches. So this is basically 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:44.270 more controls and power Around. Rag companies like JP Morgan 0:09:44.270 --> 0:09:47.929 and Walmart are shifting from restricting generative AI tools like 0:09:47.929 --> 0:09:52.370 ChatGPT to developing their own internal assistants. Basically, they know 0:09:52.370 --> 0:09:54.439 they can't use the cloud versions, but they know they 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.380 also need to use AI. So there appear to be 0:09:57.380 --> 0:10:02.600 deciding to build internally. Cisco is acquiring robust intelligence, which 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.170 secures AI applications. Not close to the details at all here, 0:10:06.170 --> 0:10:10.010 but feels desperate from Cisco. Like we know we're screwed 0:10:10.010 --> 0:10:14.330 because networking is not where it's at anymore. And we 0:10:14.330 --> 0:10:16.820 need to do something in AI. So let's buy a 0:10:16.820 --> 0:10:21.230 thing that secures AI applications. I don't have high hopes. 0:10:21.500 --> 0:10:25.189 Today's new note pin is a wearable version of its 0:10:25.190 --> 0:10:28.820 previous credit card form factor, which I have and have used. 0:10:28.820 --> 0:10:31.070 I don't use it that much. I don't like the 0:10:31.070 --> 0:10:33.440 form factor of having to pull it out. It's actually 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.770 the friction of using the app that's that's hurting my 0:10:36.770 --> 0:10:39.590 use of it. So hopefully that's better with the pin. Also, 0:10:39.620 --> 0:10:42.760 I don't like the credit card version of it. Actually, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.230 I need to take it out of my wallet because 0:10:44.260 --> 0:10:46.479 I don't really use it that much. Amazon is set 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.480 to release a new version of its Alexa voice assistant 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.660 in October, and it will be powered by Anthropic's Claude 0:10:52.690 --> 0:10:55.360 AI models. I am getting the new one. I have 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.369 it on order though. The new note pin. Sorry to 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.589 go back to the previous story, but I'm getting the 0:10:59.590 --> 0:11:02.350 one that goes around the neck, similar to the limitless one, 0:11:02.350 --> 0:11:04.449 which I also have on order. I hope it has 0:11:04.450 --> 0:11:07.059 a red button though, because I want people to know, 0:11:07.090 --> 0:11:08.770 and if I don't know the person, I'm going to 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.920 ask and say. My thing is like recording everything. Not 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.590 specifically for this conversation, but it's kind of recording everything 0:11:14.590 --> 0:11:16.210 just to let you know. So I could turn it 0:11:16.210 --> 0:11:18.550 off if that bothers them. Amazon is set to release 0:11:18.550 --> 0:11:22.780 a new version of Alexa Voice in October, so very soon, 0:11:22.780 --> 0:11:25.870 and it will be powered by Claude. That is going 0:11:25.870 --> 0:11:29.230 to be actual. I am very excited about this. I 0:11:29.230 --> 0:11:31.870 can't wait. I don't actually have any Alexa stuff, but 0:11:31.870 --> 0:11:34.150 I can't wait for the Apple version. Nearly half of 0:11:34.150 --> 0:11:38.610 Nvidia's revenue comes from for mystery customers, each spending over 0:11:38.610 --> 0:11:42.780 3 billion on AI chips like the H200. Heavy reliance 0:11:42.780 --> 0:11:47.520 on a few major clients raises concerns. Yeah, and and 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.040 they just got hit with an antitrust kind of like 0:11:50.070 --> 0:11:54.390 a probe yesterday. And I think they crashed like 10% 0:11:54.420 --> 0:11:57.240 like the stock went down like 10%. That was painful. 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.750 And and tech is shutting down after 27 years. They 0:12:00.750 --> 0:12:04.230 said they are passing the torch to Tom's Hardware. Kind 0:12:04.230 --> 0:12:06.480 of sad I kind of grew up on an antique. 0:12:06.510 --> 0:12:10.290 China's Wukong game just sold 10 million copies in three days. 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:14.340 Huawei posted record profits in the first half of 2024, 0:12:14.370 --> 0:12:20.790 7.7 billion in net profit, despite ongoing US sanctions. That's insane. 0:12:20.820 --> 0:12:23.699 Imagine what they would have done without the US headwinds. 0:12:23.730 --> 0:12:26.340 A woman in California used an AirTag to track down 0:12:26.340 --> 0:12:30.510 her stolen mail, and the suspects were found with mail 0:12:30.510 --> 0:12:32.550 addressed to lots of other people. So they're now they're 0:12:32.550 --> 0:12:37.760 facing multiple felonies for disrupting federal mail. Humans. Anarchy in 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.429 Sudan has led to the worst famine in the world 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.430 seen in 40 years. Nearly half of New York City 0:12:43.429 --> 0:12:46.730 bus riders are skipping the fair. 48% of people are 0:12:46.730 --> 0:12:50.059 not paying for the bus, presumably because they just like, 0:12:50.059 --> 0:12:51.950 what are you going to do? What are you going 0:12:51.950 --> 0:12:53.360 to do? You're not going to fight me, you're not 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.220 going to kick me off. There's not enough police. The 0:12:55.220 --> 0:12:58.310 police don't care. So hopefully they're going to start clamping 0:12:58.309 --> 0:13:00.770 down on that. Researchers at the University of Kentucky have 0:13:00.770 --> 0:13:04.130 found that long Covid patients show brain changes similar to 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:08.060 those seen in Alzheimer's. The study, published in Alzheimer's and Dementia, 0:13:08.090 --> 0:13:13.820 highlights shared issues like neuroinflammation and abnormal brain activity, suggesting 0:13:13.820 --> 0:13:19.010 common underlying mechanisms. That is super interesting and exciting. We'd 0:13:19.010 --> 0:13:22.310 love to address both. Scientists have discovered that the interaction 0:13:22.309 --> 0:13:28.040 between two molecules, pkmzeta and kibra, is crucial for maintaining 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.250 long term memories, so this appears to be a pretty 0:13:31.250 --> 0:13:35.270 major breakthrough on how long term memories are formed. Ozempic, 0:13:35.300 --> 0:13:39.170 a drug for type two diabetes and obesity, might also 0:13:39.170 --> 0:13:42.890 slow aging. Are you kidding me? It's like they keep 0:13:42.890 --> 0:13:46.160 finding new things that this does. Researchers found it could 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.990 treat illnesses like heart failure, arthritis, Alzheimer's and cancer, even 0:13:50.990 --> 0:13:55.520 reduce deaths from cardiovascular issues and Covid 19. Oh yeah, 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.580 that's a new thing I just saw. Covid 19 death 0:13:58.580 --> 0:14:01.910 reduction by 34%. That's not a story in this one, 0:14:01.910 --> 0:14:04.160 but it's a story I just read. So it's in 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.069 the podcast. So I wonder how much of this. Oh yeah, 0:14:07.070 --> 0:14:10.130 I put it right here. All this as news of 0:14:10.130 --> 0:14:12.350 it addressing more and more issues feels like it's hitting 0:14:12.350 --> 0:14:15.829 something extremely fundamental, like inflammation, which has long been pointed 0:14:15.860 --> 0:14:18.140 to as a meta cause or like a meta symptom. 0:14:18.140 --> 0:14:20.900 I think meta cause more than meta symptom in lots 0:14:20.900 --> 0:14:24.470 of other diseases. I'm not saying it's actually inflammation, just 0:14:24.470 --> 0:14:27.800 that it seems to be affecting something very fundamental. But 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.070 what if it's just that being thinner and having less 0:14:31.070 --> 0:14:34.920 visceral fat or something related to that is actually the thing. 0:14:34.950 --> 0:14:38.160 Or maybe being thinner. And the less visceral fat leads 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.010 to less inflammation, which the inflammation is causing all the 0:14:41.010 --> 0:14:44.190 other things. So like maybe the Covid 19 and the 0:14:44.190 --> 0:14:47.790 aging and the dementia and all this stuff is related 0:14:47.790 --> 0:14:52.620 to one or both of being thin and healthy, maybe 0:14:52.620 --> 0:14:56.880 physically active, maybe inflammation, I don't know, but I'm very curious. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.790 I can't wait to see, like this mystery unfold. A 0:14:59.790 --> 0:15:04.410 CIA deep cover operative known as Anthony Laguna spent years 0:15:04.410 --> 0:15:09.450 infiltrating Islamist extremist groups, even reaching al Qaeda's broader network. 0:15:09.450 --> 0:15:13.830 But he died in 2016, seemingly seemingly of like mental 0:15:13.830 --> 0:15:17.310 health issues, which is calling attention on the CIA for like, 0:15:17.340 --> 0:15:18.960 how do you how are you taking care of your 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.540 people when you put them in these traumatic situations? How 0:15:21.540 --> 0:15:23.760 do you handle their mental health? And more people are 0:15:23.790 --> 0:15:26.640 going no contact with their parents, driven by a mix 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.479 of personal growth and unresolved conflicts. I think the gulf 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.040 between Gen Z and what are Gen Z's parents? Are 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.800 those exes? I think those are exes. Maybe the difference 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.710 between Gen Z and Gen X is just so large, 0:15:39.710 --> 0:15:43.580 like ideologically, that maybe that's why this is happening. It's 0:15:43.580 --> 0:15:47.090 definitely a factor. Discovery. Whoosh is a command line tool 0:15:47.090 --> 0:15:49.580 for transferring files and opening shells over a peer to 0:15:49.610 --> 0:15:54.080 peer WireGuard connection. Super cool fire crawl crawl sites using 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:59.540 Claude or GPT and turn the output into LLM ready markdown. History. 0:15:59.540 --> 0:16:03.170 For feed, Jozek developed an open source tool that creates 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.860 a complete historical archive of full text posts from any 0:16:06.890 --> 0:16:11.300 RSS or atom feed. I absolutely need to use this. Yes, 0:16:11.300 --> 0:16:14.210 I need to use this like immediately. Uh, which is 0:16:14.210 --> 0:16:16.100 why I put it in there. So the most dangerous 0:16:16.100 --> 0:16:18.530 email I've ever sent. This is a great read. Who 0:16:18.530 --> 0:16:20.840 wants to be hired? A Hacker News thread for people 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.510 looking for work. My buddy Clint Gibler did an epic 0:16:23.510 --> 0:16:27.860 post summarizing every AI talk from Blackhat and Defcon 2024. 0:16:27.860 --> 0:16:30.820 Just an amazing piece of work. It is so like 0:16:30.850 --> 0:16:35.200 so deep and like involved. Yeah. Very comprehensive. Definitely check 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.560 it out. Using GPT four for web scraping. Three questions 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.220 candidates can ask to invert the power dynamic in technical interviews. 0:16:42.220 --> 0:16:45.310 The Hatch Restore two is a smart alarm clock designed 0:16:45.310 --> 0:16:48.220 to mimic sunrises and sunsets to help you wake up 0:16:48.220 --> 0:16:50.500 more naturally. I am so close to getting one of 0:16:50.500 --> 0:16:52.960 these things, but I'm stopped by a simple fact I 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.530 get natural light in my windows in my bedroom when 0:16:56.530 --> 0:17:01.210 the sun comes up, so the sun provides like a 0:17:01.210 --> 0:17:05.109 sunrise like experience. But I wear an eye mask when 0:17:05.109 --> 0:17:07.600 I sleep to block out the light. So I feel 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.090 like this is like the worst kind of overengineering when 0:17:10.090 --> 0:17:12.520 you have actual sun, you buy a fake sun, but 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.560 you can't see either of them because you're wearing an 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:22.090 eye mask. Uh that's silly. Okay, ideas. Beware of commodified incuriosity. 0:17:22.090 --> 0:17:24.909 This is a really good piece. So it's talking about 0:17:24.910 --> 0:17:28.780 the act of researching and thinking being replaced by focus 0:17:28.780 --> 0:17:31.690 on efficiency and productivity. I think it's a great way 0:17:31.690 --> 0:17:33.640 of looking at things and a reason to be cautious 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.459 with the overuse of something like extract wisdom, which I 0:17:36.490 --> 0:17:40.000 talk about a lot. Basically, I summarization basically a big 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.570 part of learning something is struggling with it, and that's 0:17:43.570 --> 0:17:46.120 why I tooling focused on learning should be used, in 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.000 my current opinion, to help you find things that you 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.880 read slowly and absorb and you grapple with and think 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.700 about critically. And then you could use something like extract 0:17:54.700 --> 0:17:56.979 Wisdom to help you make sure you don't miss things 0:17:56.980 --> 0:17:59.830 when you take notes, but don't think that anything other 0:17:59.830 --> 0:18:03.669 than future learning implants or something can substitute for the 0:18:03.670 --> 0:18:07.900 hard work of actual thinking and processing and grappling with content. 0:18:07.930 --> 0:18:10.990 Depression as a hand on a stove. This argument suggests 0:18:10.990 --> 0:18:13.660 that instead of trying to eliminate depression, we should see 0:18:13.660 --> 0:18:17.650 it as a signal to make life changes. Attention to enchantment. 0:18:17.650 --> 0:18:20.740 This piece argues that being enchanted by the world comes 0:18:20.740 --> 0:18:22.960 from learning to pay attention to it. I feel like 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.340 learning to meditate, which is really just paying attention in 0:18:26.340 --> 0:18:30.780 my Sam Harris based school of meditation combined with music festivals. 0:18:30.780 --> 0:18:34.650 For me, I've truly learned to appreciate small things in 0:18:34.650 --> 0:18:37.200 daily life. It's made me a very happy person. I 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.869 really feel like it's a cheat to be able to 0:18:39.900 --> 0:18:43.260 extract this much joy from, like, my neighbors, and seeing 0:18:43.260 --> 0:18:45.450 people go for a walk with their little kid, or 0:18:45.450 --> 0:18:49.560 hearing distant like children playing and like roughhousing and screaming 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.200 or whatever. And this also relates to framing, but the 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:56.160 action or the attention piece is really, really key here. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.889 Rarity and beauty. I often wonder how much of beauty 0:18:58.890 --> 0:19:01.740 is just rarity. There are lots of seagulls at this 0:19:01.740 --> 0:19:04.650 lake that I visit often. The local lake here in 0:19:04.650 --> 0:19:07.710 my town. I barely noticed them by default, but they're 0:19:07.710 --> 0:19:11.430 like big white birds and I actively try to look 0:19:11.460 --> 0:19:13.830 at them sometimes as if they are rare to try 0:19:13.830 --> 0:19:17.040 to trick my mind into noticing their beauty. Ralph Waldo 0:19:17.070 --> 0:19:20.010 Emerson has a quote if the stars should appear but 0:19:20.010 --> 0:19:24.290 one night every thousand years, how man would marvel and stare. 0:19:24.290 --> 0:19:26.629 So if the stars only came out every once in 0:19:26.660 --> 0:19:31.010 a while, there would be like eclipses, organized like eclipse 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.700 watching things. They would be organized just to go and 0:19:34.700 --> 0:19:37.850 watch the stars. And the opposite is true as well. 0:19:37.850 --> 0:19:40.310 If the eclipse happened all the time, nobody would look 0:19:40.310 --> 0:19:42.350 at it. It would be like the most boring thing ever. 0:19:42.350 --> 0:19:45.230 So it's the fact that it's rare that makes it special. 0:19:45.230 --> 0:19:47.660 That's really it. And I often think about how much 0:19:47.660 --> 0:19:49.909 beauty we have in our lives that we ignore because 0:19:49.940 --> 0:19:53.210 it's either too common or too omnipresent, or maybe those 0:19:53.210 --> 0:19:55.550 are the same in this context. I feel like the 0:19:55.550 --> 0:19:58.310 Stoics had it figured out when they taught the exercise 0:19:58.310 --> 0:20:01.399 of imagining your life without certain things. I try to 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.190 do this, and it does help me appreciate them. Two 0:20:04.220 --> 0:20:07.130 bad choices in November. This is a political one. I'm 0:20:07.130 --> 0:20:10.010 not going to do it, honestly. It's just that I 0:20:10.010 --> 0:20:15.710 think both candidates are both bad in different ways, and 0:20:15.740 --> 0:20:19.580 I'm very afraid in both cases of either of them winning, 0:20:19.580 --> 0:20:22.669 but for very different reasons. And I think both of 0:20:22.670 --> 0:20:25.850 them could do some good as well. Recommendation of the week. 0:20:25.850 --> 0:20:28.639 Here's a frame for you to try on. This goes 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.520 along with the previous one of the previous points. You 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.310 become what you pay attention to. It's election year in 0:20:34.310 --> 0:20:37.100 a few places, including the US. The world is on fire. 0:20:37.130 --> 0:20:39.199 Politics are a mess everywhere, and it seems like the 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:42.500 very fabric of Steven Pinker's last couple of books has 0:20:42.500 --> 0:20:46.040 completely unraveled. But maybe we have an option other than 0:20:46.070 --> 0:20:49.550 staring directly into the toilet. Maybe all the beauty in 0:20:49.550 --> 0:20:52.100 the world is still there, and maybe we could focus 0:20:52.100 --> 0:20:55.010 on that instead. Or at the very least, not on 0:20:55.010 --> 0:20:57.379 the toilet. I'm not saying to be cowardly. If you're 0:20:57.380 --> 0:21:00.020 one of the few people who can actually change lots 0:21:00.020 --> 0:21:02.240 of minds and help the world in some sort of way, 0:21:02.270 --> 0:21:04.760 maybe you should serve time in the toilet. That is 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.639 our current situation, but that's probably not the case. Most 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.550 of us won't be missed on those front lines, so 0:21:10.550 --> 0:21:12.919 maybe instead we could use those few months to make 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.230 a list of the best poetry books, or start a 0:21:15.230 --> 0:21:18.230 D&D campaign with your friends, or learn to play piano. 0:21:18.230 --> 0:21:21.430 Maybe we could focus our attention on the great stuff 0:21:21.430 --> 0:21:24.700 in the world that we always said we'd look at later. 0:21:24.730 --> 0:21:26.620 Now is a pretty good time to do that. It's 0:21:26.619 --> 0:21:29.229 a good time to fill our attention with that instead 0:21:29.230 --> 0:21:31.990 of the ugliness in the world, so we can become 0:21:31.990 --> 0:21:35.230 the goodness for someone else. And the aphorism of the week. 0:21:35.260 --> 0:21:37.960 You become what you pay attention to. So be very 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:40.780 careful what you pay attention to. You become what you 0:21:40.780 --> 0:21:43.600 pay attention to. 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