April 2025 - Bryan's Briefing
Hey friend,
April is over. I finished writing my bachelor thesis. This feeling of not having a set path anymore is weird, I could do anything and everything. At the same time, I don't have the financial resources to do anything, so work it is. At the same time I want to see other places on this planet, I made some plans, I'll see what's going to work out. I got declined from the GKS the second time now, the GKS is a scholarship to study in Korea. Nonetheless, I'm planning on going to Korea for a bit at the end of May.
🌱 Cool Content I Made
Got a few posts in a draft stage which I will be publishing on bryanhogan.com/blog in the next few days.
❤️ Cool Stuff By Others
🍿 Videos
- On quitting YouTube by Nate O'Brien - Found some of his videos helpful, they are usually finance related. In this video he touches on the fact that a lot of social media content is just repeated content, an endless ocean of the same attention driving content optimised to keep people engaged, and not to be the most useful.
- Tarpit ideas - what are tarpit ideas & how to avoid them by Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel - On ideas that seem like a good startup, but aren't.
- Tracking Down a Missing WW2 Plane in the Nagaland Jungle by Mike Okay
📝 Blog Posts
- On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after by Ethan Mollick - Insane how human like the guy in the first video is, for me only the eye twitching quickly gave it away. Post includes even more impressive examples. From this HN discussion which has further interesting comments.
- The Etymology of Every Toki Pona Word by Ryan Starkey
- Ten rules for negotiating a job offer by Haseeb Qureshi
- TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch
- AI assisted search-based research actually works now by Simon Willison - AI can search for stuff. By being able to use the internet well it will be able to do a lot of stuff.
- On AI-powered bots on social media - Internet will be flooded with AI generated spam, music compilations, reels/shorts/tiktoks/vertical-video, rage bait, opinion campaigns.
- You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown by Christopher Butler
- AI Horseless Carriages: Many AI features feel tacked-on and useless by Pete Koomen - Also see the relevant HN discussion here.
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