Weekend Reads (4/26/25)

Interesting things I found on the internet this week
weekend-reads
Author

Mike Tokic

Published

April 26, 2025

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Videos

  • Don’t Die Podcast
    • First iteration of Bryan Johnson’s new podcast.
    • Discusses a recent paper on the benefits of creatine.

Tweets

  • One Minute Blog by Shaan Puri
    • Great post on the law of category.
    • Instead of building the best electric truck, Slate built the simplest.
  • AI Impact on Education by Beff Jezos and Austen Allred
    • The half life of a college education used to be 30 years, with AI it’s now less than 1 year.
    • The way AI learns today is how humans have learned for hundreds of years.
      • Model Pre-Training (aka school)
      • Model Fine-Tuning (aka work and apprenticeship)
    • How should humans adjust their learning approach in this new AI era? Something to think on.
  • RTO by Shako
    • This one hit me deep. It happens more than you think at big tech companies.
  • Building AI Moats by Aaron Levie
    • Having the right context to feed AI is a competitive advantage.
  • Having Brass Balls by Lou
    • Coffee is for closers. In the end it doesn’t matter how much you work, as long as you close.

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