2/12/3 - The Itinerant Weekly - #34
Welcome back, polymaths! Here’s your dose of brain food. TL; DR A look at the latest in cutting-edge graphics/VR capabilities; how your mind can make you physically ill, or physically more resilient – it’s up to you; why investors should be on alert following this latest rally; startup plans to d...

Santa: The Original Meme?
It’s Christmas Day, and as the festivities settle into a cozy rhythm and my children begin heckling me to open presents, my father-in-law asks if I know the history of Santa Claus and Coca-Cola. I nodded, recalling the tale of how the jolly, red-suited Santa became synonymous with the modern notion of Christmas, thanks in large part to Coca-Cola's marketing. He smiled – “fascinating, isn’t it?” he said as we quickly moved on to more pressing matters like making sure my four-year-old didn’t go...

The ABCs of Web3
The nursery rhyme you wish you had.
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2/12/3 - The Itinerant Weekly - #34
Welcome back, polymaths! Here’s your dose of brain food. TL; DR A look at the latest in cutting-edge graphics/VR capabilities; how your mind can make you physically ill, or physically more resilient – it’s up to you; why investors should be on alert following this latest rally; startup plans to d...

Santa: The Original Meme?
It’s Christmas Day, and as the festivities settle into a cozy rhythm and my children begin heckling me to open presents, my father-in-law asks if I know the history of Santa Claus and Coca-Cola. I nodded, recalling the tale of how the jolly, red-suited Santa became synonymous with the modern notion of Christmas, thanks in large part to Coca-Cola's marketing. He smiled – “fascinating, isn’t it?” he said as we quickly moved on to more pressing matters like making sure my four-year-old didn’t go...

The ABCs of Web3
The nursery rhyme you wish you had.
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With this sixtieth edition of The Itinerant Weekly, I will pause publication for 2-3 weeks. During this time, I will be updating and refining the project roadmap and content, working towards some level of process automation, and exploring avenues to free up more time for original content creation. Stay tuned!
The Itinerant Weekly is available on Diamond, Mirror.xyz, Paragraph.xyz, and at www.theitinerant.io along with resources for founders and investors.

McKinsey & Co. – The Future of Work in America
Prospect [Product] – A Tool to Find a Startup Worth Betting Your Career On
Harvard Business Review – Reskilling [Yourself] in the Age of AI
ScienceDaily – Pros and Cons of ChatGPT plugin, Code Interpreter, in education, biology and health
McKinsey & Co. – Four Economic Scenarios for How the Global Economy Might Unfold
Tim Ferris – The Life of an Entrepreneur: How to Get on the Other Side of Failure
Chief Executive – Get Some Sleep to Ace Your Next Speech
McKinsey & Co.– Strategies to Win in the New Ecosystem Economy
Jimm Rutt Show – Michael Bonner on Civilization, Collapse and Renewal
Hidden Forces – Perennials and the Post Generation Society
McKinsey & Co. – Global Economics Intelligence Survey, July 2023
Ray Dalio – War with China?
Discover – Some Stone Age Societies Avoided Farming in a Rapidly Changing Europe
Hunter Walker – Why Investor Updates Starting with “Cash on Hand” Information is a Major Red Flag Right Now
Springr [product] – Airbnb for crypto nomads
MIT Technology Review – Crypto Millionaires are Pouring Millions into Central America to Build Cities
Inman – Homebuyer Mortgage Demand Falls to Lowest Level Since 1995
Praxis [product] – A Community Building a City
Out of Pocket – How to Analyze Public Health Datasets
Harvard Business Review – When Leaders Disclose a Chronic Disease at Work
Medical Futurist – The IP Journey of Patients’ Digital Health Data
JAMA Network – Comparison of Ophthalmologist and Large Language Model Chatbot Responses to Online Patient Eye Care Questions
Towards Data Science – Teaching Language Models to Use Tools
Fenwick – IRS Releases Proposed Rules Regulating Digital Assets
Cornell – Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence
Venture Beat – Meet SeamlessM4T, the Meta AI Model that Can Translate 100 Languages into Speech or Text
Discover – What Makes a Person Trustworthy? Science May Have the Answer
Santa Fe Institute – How the Brain Makes You: Collective Intelligence and Computation
Gizmodo – How Many People does it Take To Start a Colony on Mars?
Sam Holmes Sailing – Sailing to Montpellier
Scientific American – What’s the World’s Oldest Language?
Thoughty2 – How an Erotic Dancer Fooled the World’s Most Powerful Men
The Verge – Stitching Together an Archive of an Endangered Palestinian Art
Observer – Federal Judge Rule AI-Generated Art isn’t Copyrightable
Science Daily – Formerly Depressed Patients Continue to Focus on Negative Information
Science News – Here’s What Lucid Dreamers Might Tell Us About Our Sleeping Minds
Simon Sinek – Be There for Your Friends
Dry Creen Wrangler School – The Loudest Man in the Room
BioLogos – A Letter to My Kids about the Universe, Spirituality and Science
Huberman – Life, Death & Neuroscience
With this sixtieth edition of The Itinerant Weekly, I will pause publication for 2-3 weeks. During this time, I will be updating and refining the project roadmap and content, working towards some level of process automation, and exploring avenues to free up more time for original content creation. Stay tuned!
The Itinerant Weekly is available on Diamond, Mirror.xyz, Paragraph.xyz, and at www.theitinerant.io along with resources for founders and investors.

McKinsey & Co. – The Future of Work in America
Prospect [Product] – A Tool to Find a Startup Worth Betting Your Career On
Harvard Business Review – Reskilling [Yourself] in the Age of AI
ScienceDaily – Pros and Cons of ChatGPT plugin, Code Interpreter, in education, biology and health
McKinsey & Co. – Four Economic Scenarios for How the Global Economy Might Unfold
Tim Ferris – The Life of an Entrepreneur: How to Get on the Other Side of Failure
Chief Executive – Get Some Sleep to Ace Your Next Speech
McKinsey & Co.– Strategies to Win in the New Ecosystem Economy
Jimm Rutt Show – Michael Bonner on Civilization, Collapse and Renewal
Hidden Forces – Perennials and the Post Generation Society
McKinsey & Co. – Global Economics Intelligence Survey, July 2023
Ray Dalio – War with China?
Discover – Some Stone Age Societies Avoided Farming in a Rapidly Changing Europe
Hunter Walker – Why Investor Updates Starting with “Cash on Hand” Information is a Major Red Flag Right Now
Springr [product] – Airbnb for crypto nomads
MIT Technology Review – Crypto Millionaires are Pouring Millions into Central America to Build Cities
Inman – Homebuyer Mortgage Demand Falls to Lowest Level Since 1995
Praxis [product] – A Community Building a City
Out of Pocket – How to Analyze Public Health Datasets
Harvard Business Review – When Leaders Disclose a Chronic Disease at Work
Medical Futurist – The IP Journey of Patients’ Digital Health Data
JAMA Network – Comparison of Ophthalmologist and Large Language Model Chatbot Responses to Online Patient Eye Care Questions
Towards Data Science – Teaching Language Models to Use Tools
Fenwick – IRS Releases Proposed Rules Regulating Digital Assets
Cornell – Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence
Venture Beat – Meet SeamlessM4T, the Meta AI Model that Can Translate 100 Languages into Speech or Text
Discover – What Makes a Person Trustworthy? Science May Have the Answer
Santa Fe Institute – How the Brain Makes You: Collective Intelligence and Computation
Gizmodo – How Many People does it Take To Start a Colony on Mars?
Sam Holmes Sailing – Sailing to Montpellier
Scientific American – What’s the World’s Oldest Language?
Thoughty2 – How an Erotic Dancer Fooled the World’s Most Powerful Men
The Verge – Stitching Together an Archive of an Endangered Palestinian Art
Observer – Federal Judge Rule AI-Generated Art isn’t Copyrightable
Science Daily – Formerly Depressed Patients Continue to Focus on Negative Information
Science News – Here’s What Lucid Dreamers Might Tell Us About Our Sleeping Minds
Simon Sinek – Be There for Your Friends
Dry Creen Wrangler School – The Loudest Man in the Room
BioLogos – A Letter to My Kids about the Universe, Spirituality and Science
Huberman – Life, Death & Neuroscience
The Verge – NYT Blocks OpenAI’s Page Indexing Bot
SK Ventures – AI Isn’t Good Enough
The Verge – NYT Blocks OpenAI’s Page Indexing Bot
SK Ventures – AI Isn’t Good Enough
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