Lex Fridman asked OpenAI’s Sam Altman: “Stepping outside of OpenAI, …how do you look at world where Google is playing, where Apple and Meta are playing?” Sam’s response: “We can’t control what other people are going to do. We can try to build something, talk about it, and influence others…

A bit of cross-posting to kick off this new Medium publication for GTD.VC, Lucas Dickey’s new advisory firm for startups looking to raise pre-seed (first money), seed, and Series A capital. More info to follow! But in the meantime, here’s some small nuggets from a recent LinkedIn post. LinkedIn Chief…

Call it cultural criticism, media commentary, technology prognostication, political discourse, and television philosophy*, but whatever you call it, Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business” is a highly readable and entertaining classic. Originally published in 1985, it’s as salient, topical, apropos as it…

Justin Custer, a close friend of mine (with whom I’ve invested in companies such as Artium, in whose company, ChatLingual, I’ve invested, and who’s invested in Fernish since the first SAFE note) asked if he could attend Fernish’s quarterly board meeting this past week. …

[My guy Peter Liu kicked off an exercise to write 30 essays in 30 days as an effort to learn how to write more concisely and with more impact by exercising those muscles via habit creation. I’m all for it. So, I’ve decided to start writing again more regularly. …

If I were add anything else to this list that I started a number of years ago, it'd be mental flexibility. This characteristic entails fighting the inertia and myopia of cognitive entrenchment, and constantly questioning your own box-creating assumptions.

My fanboydom for professor Galloway ran its course about 6 months ago, but not due to Scott. Scott is consistent thematically in a way that’s necessary for brand-building as a pundit and thought leader. Even as a contrarian thought leader some rote repetition is required. …

DP(E): Can the Forces Unleashed by Trump’s Big Election Lie Be Undone From NPR’s politics coverage… (The very messy scribbles above was my attempt to capture the episodername AND the words “Big Lie" while at a stop light. Had to make haste!) This episode tackled the history of “the big lie” from its Mein Kampf origins pushing the anti-Jew narrative that fueled…

A great sober primer on the Republican party and the range of key players therein. Not a ton of 'inside baseball' “Weeds"-y wonk talk or professional political scientist opining. Begs the question at large (that I’m sure I’m not the first to ask), but what really is “RINO" (Republican In…