Greetings friends, Looks like this was a great week for Swifties but definitely not a memorable week for Manchester United fans

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Chief Knowledge Officer @ Animoca Brands. Also assists in Growth Marketing

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I'm also sharing another inspiring commencement address from my curated collection.

This 17 minutes speech from Ben Horowitz of the famous venture capital firm Andressen Horowtiz aka A16Z of the 2015 commencement address at Columbia University has a click-baity title but in my humble opinion is worth watching

Public: Don't Follow Your Passion | Notion

This 17 minutes speech from Ben Horowitz of the famous venture capital firm Andressen Horowtiz aka A16Z of the 2015 commencement address at Columbia University has a click-baity title but in my humble opinion is worth watching

https://yusuf-goolamabbas-53.notion.site

I'm experimenting with a new presentation mechanism this week in particular using a tabular format on days which have had multiple posts to see if its easier to isolate the individual posts on a single day. Previews still show some rendering issues in particular that whilst I have the columns configured in different widths whilst editing, they render as identical widths. I have upstreamed this bug report to the Paragraph team

The following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 24th Aug 2025 - Saturday 30th Aug 2025

Some of you have asked as to what AI tools and services I use on a regular basis. As many of you know, I reside in Hong Kong, which has unique challenges of accessing AI tools and services most of you take for granted. 
I've prepared the below Notion page which describes what I use, elaborates a bit more on what we experience in Hong Kong , and thus colours my recommendation to my friends and associates who reside in Hong Kong. Hope this helps some of you. 
I do realise that for many amongst you may not be able to relate to why I may be recommending some tools but all I ask is that you mentally put yourself in the shoe of someone who faces constraints you are privileged to not be facing

AI services that I subscribe to | Notion

FWIW, Since some of you asked, I wanted to share the various AI tools that I currently pay for

https://yusuf-goolamabbas-53.notion.site

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Paradigmai transforms the traditional spreadsheet by embedding AI agents into every cell, enabling automated data collection, cleaning, analysis, and contextual enrichment at remarkable speed—reportedly 500+ cells per minute, making it up to 1000 times faster than manual work.    Free trial and then 2 plans,  one at USD 20/month,  the other at USD 500/month Paradigm The AI-powered way to do spreadsheet work. Set up, edit, populate, and analyze sheets with assistant. Enrich empty cells with data from trusted sources. https://www.paradigmai.com Why Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell | TechCrunch Paradigm raised a $5 million seed round and is releasing it's AI-powered spreadsheet to the general public. https://techcrunch.com

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OpenRouter now offering image-gen models starting with nano banana aka Google-2.5 Image Preview including offering free access for a week. Alex Atallah @xanderatallah Big milestone for us, for Gemini, and for AI in general. We’ve held off on adding image-gen models to OpenRouter for years, for a few reasons: 1. Most image gen models are not conversational. We believe this is a critical ability and core to the reason ChatGPT was a success in OpenRouter @OpenRouterAI The first-ever image model is up on OpenRouter: Gemini 2.5 Image Preview Some tests we ran, including our tsunami-edit test: 151 6:43 PM • Aug 26, 2025

For what its worth,  I use this prompt suffix for a socractic style explanation from a reasoning model which is also augmented with search capabilities so that its not constrained with its knowledge cut-off date
o3, Opus/Sonnet-4, Grok-4, Gemini-Pro-2.5 are my current gotos for such class of models
I humbly welcome your feedback if this approach helps you particularly when you are trying to learn new concepts

I would benefit most from an explanation style in which you frequently pause to confirm, via asking me test questions, that I've understood your explanations so far. Particularly helpful are test questions related to simple, explicit examples. When you pause and ask me a test question, do not continue the explanation until I have answered the questions to your satisfaction. I.e. do not keep generating the explanation, actually wait for me to respond first. I'm hoping that by tutoring me in this Socratic way, you'll help me better understand how superficial my understanding is (which is so easy to fail to notice otherwise), and then help fill all the important blanks. Thanks!

I wouldn't recommend using the above in an answer-engine such as Perplexity but it probably works best with an LLM front end more suited for multi-turn conversation such as ChatGPT,  Claude,  Gemini,  Poe,  ChatLLM etc

Example prompt where you can see the approach

Explain perpetual futures contract
<insert above-prompt-suffix-here>

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Regards, Yusuf