Tyler Cowen: “The AI is your smartest reader. It’s your most sympathetic reader. It will remember what you tell it. So I think humans should sit down and ask, what does the AI need to know? And also, what is it that I know that’s not on the historical record anywhere? That’s not just repetition if I put it down, say on the internet. So there’s no point in writing repetitions anymore because the AI already knows those things. So the value of what you’d call broadly, memoir, biography, anecdote, you could say secrets. It’s now much higher. And the value of repeating basic truths, which by the way, I love as an economist, to be clear, like free trade, tariffs are usually bad, those are basic truths. But just repeating that people will be going to the AI and saying it again won’t make the AI any better. So everything you write or podcast, you should have this point in mind.”
WSJ on creatine: “The popular supplement may do more than boost athletic performance and muscle mass, scientists say. It is being studied—with good preliminary results—to improve bone health, cognition and sleep and reduce depression and anxiety symptoms…Our bodies naturally produce creatine, synthesizing one to three grams of it in our liver and brain, says Darren G. Candow, a professor and director of the Aging Muscle and Bone Health Laboratory at University of Regina in Canada. But we need another one to three grams of creatine a day. We get more creatine from our diets, but vegetarians take note: It’s only in meat and seafood.”
Bloomberg: “What if Amazon were founded today? What if its first 10 hires weren’t just “really smart, motivated, inventive, ambitious people,” as Jassy describes them, but AI power users equipped with tools that could handle customer service, scheduling and product prototyping on their own? Could the company have scaled faster, and with fewer employees? That’s the underlying premise of a new cohort of startups calling themselves “AI natives” — companies built from the ground up with artificial intelligence not just in the product, but at the heart of workflows and team structure.”
Wired: “It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new car, the only way the automaker could check if the chassis would fit through the production line was to fly a team out and physically push the body through the process, making note of any snags. Now, process engineers can simply run a simulation, sending a 3D model of the car through a near-identical digital twin of the factory. Any mistakes are spotted before the production line is built, saving time and money. Such is the power of the industrial metaverse..the metaverse idea has found its killer app in manufacturing.”
SaaStr: “Within the next year, AI will become a standard participant in sales calls—not just as a note-taker, but as an active contributor. It’ll know your product cold, answer questions instantly, and eliminate the “I’ll get back to you” moments that kill momentum. This will take sales calls from 10% being great to 95% being great because the AI will always be prepared and accurate…For simpler, transactional sales, AI will take over entirely. We’re talking about 25–45% of routine deals being closed by AI alone. Customers will prefer interacting with an AI that knows the product perfectly over a junior rep who needs three days to respond. This is already happening in customer support, and sales is next.”
