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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If you only have 30 minutes this week, watch (at 2.0x) this video about whether free will is an illusion and why it would matter.
The Itinerant Weekly is available on Diamond, Mirror.xyz, Paragraph.xyz, and at www.theitinerant.io.
Stanford Business School – Future Proof Yourself in the Reinvention Revolution
Paul Graham – How to do great work
Stanford Business School – Build Impactful Expert Networks
The Fed – Distressed Firms and the Large Effects of Monetary Policy Tightenings
Bloomberg – China Has $3T ‘Hidden’ Currency Reserves
AP – The S&P500 is in a Bull Market. Here’s What that Means and How Long the Bull Might Run
Morgan Stanley – Bracing for a U.S. Earnings Recession
Business Insider – Wall Street Can’t Agree on Where Stocks Are Headed in the 2nd Half of this Year
Clarify Capital – GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitchdeck Creation
JSTOR – Can VCs Time the Market?
FlyingMagazine – Flying Car Manufacturer, Aska Nabs Milestone FAA Airworthiness Approval
Business Insider – It’s a Cruel Summer for AirBnB and Vrbo Hosts as Listings Get Squeezed
New Product – InflectionAI
Gizmodo – Meta Offers a Glimpse into the Black Box of AI Ranking
Aarthi & Sriram – Vitalik Buterin on Crypto’s Future
Vivek Goyal – AI Agents – Next Frontier to Access the Web
Alec Torelli – The Next Crypto Cycle
Scientific American – Where’s Waldo? How to Mathematically Prove You Found Him Without Revealing Where He Is
World Science Festival – The Golden Age of Space Exploration
Space.com – SpaceX Launches Rocket to Map the ‘Dark Universe’
Discover – If We Can’t Send People Back in Time, Can We Send Information?
The Living Philosopher – Camino de Santiago: Why I Hiked and What I Learned
Warren Buffet – How We Gauge Someone’s Reputation
Philosophize This – What if Free Will is an Illusion? ***
Chief Executive – The Strategic Value of Kindness
Bronnie Ware – The Regrets of the Dying
If you only have 30 minutes this week, watch (at 2.0x) this video about whether free will is an illusion and why it would matter.
The Itinerant Weekly is available on Diamond, Mirror.xyz, Paragraph.xyz, and at www.theitinerant.io.
Stanford Business School – Future Proof Yourself in the Reinvention Revolution
Paul Graham – How to do great work
Stanford Business School – Build Impactful Expert Networks
The Fed – Distressed Firms and the Large Effects of Monetary Policy Tightenings
Bloomberg – China Has $3T ‘Hidden’ Currency Reserves
AP – The S&P500 is in a Bull Market. Here’s What that Means and How Long the Bull Might Run
Morgan Stanley – Bracing for a U.S. Earnings Recession
Business Insider – Wall Street Can’t Agree on Where Stocks Are Headed in the 2nd Half of this Year
Clarify Capital – GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitchdeck Creation
JSTOR – Can VCs Time the Market?
FlyingMagazine – Flying Car Manufacturer, Aska Nabs Milestone FAA Airworthiness Approval
Business Insider – It’s a Cruel Summer for AirBnB and Vrbo Hosts as Listings Get Squeezed
New Product – InflectionAI
Gizmodo – Meta Offers a Glimpse into the Black Box of AI Ranking
Aarthi & Sriram – Vitalik Buterin on Crypto’s Future
Vivek Goyal – AI Agents – Next Frontier to Access the Web
Alec Torelli – The Next Crypto Cycle
Scientific American – Where’s Waldo? How to Mathematically Prove You Found Him Without Revealing Where He Is
World Science Festival – The Golden Age of Space Exploration
Space.com – SpaceX Launches Rocket to Map the ‘Dark Universe’
Discover – If We Can’t Send People Back in Time, Can We Send Information?
The Living Philosopher – Camino de Santiago: Why I Hiked and What I Learned
Warren Buffet – How We Gauge Someone’s Reputation
Philosophize This – What if Free Will is an Illusion? ***
Chief Executive – The Strategic Value of Kindness
Bronnie Ware – The Regrets of the Dying
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