6/11/23 - The Itinerant Weekly - #49
If you only have 10 minutes this week, play around with RunwayML, a new text-to-video LLM model. The Itinerant Weekly is available on Diamond, Mirror.xyz, Medium, Paragraph.xyz, and at www.theitinerant.io.SubscribeEntrepreneurial Careers & The Future of WorkForbes – How to Innovate in Times of Economic AmbiguityBlake Masters – Peter Thiel’s Startup Class NotesMacroeconomics & Innovation HistoryEPB Research – These States are in a RecessionJeff Bezos – the Electricity MetaphorCoinbase – US Nat...
SVB & The Economy's Path Forward
Let me start off by acknowledging that these are incredibly trying times, potentially impacting millions of people across the country as families wondering if/when they’ll receive a paycheck. My heart goes out to everyone who has been directly and indirectly impacted by Silicon Valley Bank’s (“SVB”) closure. My reflections here are geared towards the non-tech / venture professional who is heads-down in their day job, hearing rumblings about what is going on with SVB and seeing the headlines a...
The Itinerant (Free Version) - 9/25/22
Welcome back, folks to The Itinerant on mirror.xyz! Here’s your weekly dose of what I’ve been exploring and contemplating. It’s my birthday this weekend, so I’m going to be lighter on the commentary this week. TL; DR Why founders should have a “body stack” in addition to a tech stack and marketing stack; a recession is here, folks; that’s not news. The Fed Chair being open about taking a note from legendary economist Paul Volker could give us insight into his next moves; How to ‘hack’ your wa...
Operator turned healthcare VC by day; web3 & shenanigans by night. More at benersing.com ; write @TheItinerant.
6/11/23 - The Itinerant Weekly - #49
If you only have 10 minutes this week, play around with RunwayML, a new text-to-video LLM model. The Itinerant Weekly is available on Diamond, Mirror.xyz, Medium, Paragraph.xyz, and at www.theitinerant.io.SubscribeEntrepreneurial Careers & The Future of WorkForbes – How to Innovate in Times of Economic AmbiguityBlake Masters – Peter Thiel’s Startup Class NotesMacroeconomics & Innovation HistoryEPB Research – These States are in a RecessionJeff Bezos – the Electricity MetaphorCoinbase – US Nat...
SVB & The Economy's Path Forward
Let me start off by acknowledging that these are incredibly trying times, potentially impacting millions of people across the country as families wondering if/when they’ll receive a paycheck. My heart goes out to everyone who has been directly and indirectly impacted by Silicon Valley Bank’s (“SVB”) closure. My reflections here are geared towards the non-tech / venture professional who is heads-down in their day job, hearing rumblings about what is going on with SVB and seeing the headlines a...
The Itinerant (Free Version) - 9/25/22
Welcome back, folks to The Itinerant on mirror.xyz! Here’s your weekly dose of what I’ve been exploring and contemplating. It’s my birthday this weekend, so I’m going to be lighter on the commentary this week. TL; DR Why founders should have a “body stack” in addition to a tech stack and marketing stack; a recession is here, folks; that’s not news. The Fed Chair being open about taking a note from legendary economist Paul Volker could give us insight into his next moves; How to ‘hack’ your wa...
Operator turned healthcare VC by day; web3 & shenanigans by night. More at benersing.com ; write @TheItinerant.
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As a reminder, I’ve decided to iterate on the approach to The Itinerant Weekly. Going forward it will now be a much more concise compilation of the most interesting content I encountered this past week. We’ll test this approach out for a few months and see how it goes.
f you only have 30 minutes, listen at 1.5x speed to Predicting Catastrophic Events (Prof. Didier Sornette) and How to Avoid Blackswans (Warren Buffet).
Remember, The Itinerant Weekly is available on Diamond, Mirror.xyz, Medium and now Paragraph.xyz, and at www.theitinerant.io.
EPB Research – Don’t Ignore this Recession Warning
Quarterly Investment Report – Tesla Q1 2023 Investor Report
Quarterly Investment Report – UnitedHealthcare Q1 2023 Investor Report
Warren Buffet – How to Avoid Blackswans
Crunchbase – VC Funding Drops Q1
Healthcare Dive – Moody’s Report Highlights Needs for Healthcare Cybersecurity
ViveXR – The start of VR Glasses?
Andrew Huberman – Neuralink & Technologies to Enhance the Brain
Time Magazine – Why SpaceX’s Starship Explosion is No Big Deal
Quantum Insider – First-Ever Coherent Quantum Spin Glass Dynamics
60 Minutes – Google CEO: “AI to Have More Profound Impact Than Discovery of Fire, Electricity”
Fred Wilson – What is a Protocol and Why Does it Matter?
SSRN –
Discover Magazine – What was the life expectancy of ancient humans?
Tim Ferris – Rethinking Psychedelics, Octopuses on MDMA and the Master of Metaplasticity
Prof. Didier Sornette – Predicting Catastrophic Events
Barsee – Midjourney AI Guide v4/v5 (courtesy of Dan Romero @dwr on @Farcaster)
PromptBase – ebay for GenerativeAI model prompts
Philosophy Overdose – Ethics Without Principles?
As a reminder, I’ve decided to iterate on the approach to The Itinerant Weekly. Going forward it will now be a much more concise compilation of the most interesting content I encountered this past week. We’ll test this approach out for a few months and see how it goes.
f you only have 30 minutes, listen at 1.5x speed to Predicting Catastrophic Events (Prof. Didier Sornette) and How to Avoid Blackswans (Warren Buffet).
Remember, The Itinerant Weekly is available on Diamond, Mirror.xyz, Medium and now Paragraph.xyz, and at www.theitinerant.io.
EPB Research – Don’t Ignore this Recession Warning
Quarterly Investment Report – Tesla Q1 2023 Investor Report
Quarterly Investment Report – UnitedHealthcare Q1 2023 Investor Report
Warren Buffet – How to Avoid Blackswans
Crunchbase – VC Funding Drops Q1
Healthcare Dive – Moody’s Report Highlights Needs for Healthcare Cybersecurity
ViveXR – The start of VR Glasses?
Andrew Huberman – Neuralink & Technologies to Enhance the Brain
Time Magazine – Why SpaceX’s Starship Explosion is No Big Deal
Quantum Insider – First-Ever Coherent Quantum Spin Glass Dynamics
60 Minutes – Google CEO: “AI to Have More Profound Impact Than Discovery of Fire, Electricity”
Fred Wilson – What is a Protocol and Why Does it Matter?
SSRN –
Discover Magazine – What was the life expectancy of ancient humans?
Tim Ferris – Rethinking Psychedelics, Octopuses on MDMA and the Master of Metaplasticity
Prof. Didier Sornette – Predicting Catastrophic Events
Barsee – Midjourney AI Guide v4/v5 (courtesy of Dan Romero @dwr on @Farcaster)
PromptBase – ebay for GenerativeAI model prompts
Philosophy Overdose – Ethics Without Principles?
Nvidia – Text-to-Video with Stable Diffusion
Popular Mechanics – ‘Godfather’ Scientists Says Superhuman AI Could Eliminate Humanity
Nvidia – Text-to-Video with Stable Diffusion
Popular Mechanics – ‘Godfather’ Scientists Says Superhuman AI Could Eliminate Humanity
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