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.

If 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.

MacroEconomics & Innovation History

• 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

Alternative Investments

• Crunchbase – VC Funding Drops Q1

Global Health & Wellness

• Healthcare Dive – Moody’s Report Highlights Needs for Healthcare Cybersecurity

Transformative Technologies

• A16z – Tokenology: Moving Beyond ‘Tokenomics’

• 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 – Can ChatGPT Forecast Stock Price Movements?

• Nvidia – Text-to-Video with Stable Diffusion

• Popular Mechanics – ‘Godfather’ Scientists Says Superhuman AI Could Eliminate Humanity

STEM: Expanding Horizons

• 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

Art, Culture & Entertainment

• Barsee – Midjourney AI Guide v4/v5 (courtesy of Dan Romero aka, @dwr on @Farcaster)

• PromptBase – ebay for GenerativeAI model prompts

On LIFE: Spirituality, Philosophy & Parenting

• Philosophy Overdose – Ethics Without Principles?