1 / Reading

Monster paper on "Some Simple Economics of AGI".

If you haven't read it yet, you're behind the curve.

We are moving from an era where our worth was defined by our capacity to build and discover, to an era where our survival depends on our capacity to steer, understand, and stand behind the meaning of what is created.

For individuals, the existential risk lies in the digitization of their “task bundle”: the moment a role’s core inputs and outputs can be precisely measured and cheaply verified, the human’s labor is competitively re-priced at the marginal cost of capital and energy.

2 / Building

I've started writing a book about my journey building Portico.

Working title: Starting Where You're Standing.

I have a skeleton of the manuscript based on ~45 newsletters written between 2016 and 2023, which I'm curating and annotating.

It operates on two levels:

1. A case study of diagnosing the structural decline of an industry in real time

2. An entrepreneurial cautionary tale about building a business in the market you're simultaneously dissecting

I hear nobody reads books anymore, so likely will self-publish it as an e-book—perhaps for the price of a Guinness.

3 / Listening

TWO LANES - Live in London (Earth Theatre)

4 / Number

175

Children murdered by the U.S. military on the first day of its prosecution of an illegal act of aggression.

— Kevin Baker, "Kill Chain"

Thanks for reading!

Hit reply! I read every response.

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

Abrazos,
Mike