1 / Reading

I re-read Voltaire's Candide for Venkat Rao's Contraptions Book Club.

2 / Building

Like many nerds, I built several projects over the holiday break using Claude Code and Google's Antigravity. My favorite project was building a browser-based video game called Early Human Extravaganza with my oldest son.

It's a bit of a riff on Minecraft, where you collect resources, craft tools, hunt dinosaurs for food (and survive their attacks).

He has ideas for turning it into a Civilization-like game that brings humanity forward from neanderthals to the present 😬.

3 / Listening

I enjoyed Scottish Ensemble's concert at candlelight at Greyfriar's Kirk in Edinburgh.

It encouraged me to listen to more classical music during a dark and cold winter, which has been relaxing if a bit melancholic.

4 / Number

49.7%

The compound annual decline rate of Tesla's net income since FY 2023. (10K)

Bonus: 'Roughly 45% of [Microsoft's] commercial RPO balance is driven by commitments from OpenAI'. (Slide 6)

Thanks for reading!

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Let me know what you’re reading, building, and/or listening to.

Abrazos,
Mike