Newsletter : Issue #19
“The gap between where you are and where you want to be isn’t bridged by credentials, it’s bridged by action.”
Happy Sunday! Welcome to the 19th edition of my weekly newsletter. Here are some of the articles and resources that caught my attention this week.
Reading
1. Is AI Making Us Lazy? (calnewport)
“The higher alpha connectivity in the Brain-only group suggests that writing without assistance most likely induced greater internally driven processing…their brains likely engaged in more internal brainstorming and semantic retrieval. The LLM group…may have relied less on purely internal semantic generation, leading to lower alpha connectivity, because some creative burden was offloaded to the tool.”
“In a learning environment, the feeling of strain is often a by-product of getting smarter. To minimize this strain is like using an electric scooter to make the marches easier in military boot camp; it will accomplish this goal in the short term, but it defeats the long-term conditioning purposes of the marches.”
2. Andrej Karpathy’s Software 3.0 (sequoia)
“Karpathy's framework reveals that we're not just witnessing technological progress—we're observing a fundamental phase transition in the nature of computation itself. Software isn't just eating the world; it's recursively consuming and transforming itself in an accelerating spiral of abstraction and capability.”
Above article is the summary of Karpathy's talk.
3. Jimmy Pattison — Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials (The Knowledge Project Podcast)
“Public companies optimize for quarters; private companies optimize for decades. “
“The gap between where you are and where you want to be isn’t bridged by credentials, it’s bridged by action.”
4. The Art of Succession (vestgen)
“True succession planning isn’t about keeping a business alive—it’s about keeping its mission alive. It’s about ensuring that every leader, whether family or not, sees their role as part of a larger story—one that extends beyond their tenure and into the future.”
Few more :
Could getting rid of old cells turn back the clock on aging? Link
Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent Link
Education is free, learning is expensive Link
Watching
Interview with Satya Nadella
Tools
AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
— Albert Einstein