D-Squared Musings – Week 17

Tech
🤖 SWYX – Good AI Podcasts and Newsletters
- Trying to keep up with all the AI action happening in the last couple of weeks has been daunting. This makes me think, why am I trying to “keep up”? Anyways… Here’s a great list of resources I’ve come across that can assist if you’re interested in putting yourself through similar pain. Also, here’s an aggregated Twitter list too.
📝 Task-driven GPT models – capable of achieving larger tasks through autonomous action
- Check out Auto-GPT and BabyAGI if you haven’t already, it’s the next big area of focus during this chaotic wave of AI. As you can see below Auto-GPT is getting A LOT of attention! 😲


Education
🧬 Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
- I recently started Peter’s new book, which has not disappointed me. Peter has a great way of breaking complex topics down and providing frameworks to think about extending one’s health span. I prefer this framework approach because it enables the reader to make intelligent decisions irrelevant to the new health fad being pushed (i.e. Crossfit, Keto, Vegan, Carnivore, etc.). Here’s a good Tim Ferriss interview with Peter about the book.

Miscellaneous
🐇 Entrepreneurship Rabbit Hole
- Not sure why I feel cringe sharing this kind of information (probably ads around these videos), but I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole this week around entrepreneurship. It’s a mental hole I fall down usually once a quarter, reflecting on why I’m not building anything on my own or at least experimenting on the side while working full-time. The most difficult hurdle for me to overcome is transitioning from the “employee mindset” to the “entrepreneur mindset”. There’s a lot of psychological baggage to unpack here as to why it’s hard for me to make that jump (i.e. status, “safety”, comfort, sunk cost fallacy, etc.), but we’ll leave that for another day. Here’s a list of resources I’ve come across related to the topic that I found useful for either motivation, empathy, or practical insight.
- THE MILLIONAIRE FASTLANE (BY MJ DEMARCO)
- How To Recreate Your Life And Career In 2023 – Paul Millerd
- How Pieter Levels Makes $2.7M/Year With 0 Employees
- Alex Hormozi: How He Built A $150 Million Empire And His Best Business Advice
- A Millionaires Masterclass In Business, Side-Hustles and Passive Income – Mark Tilbury
- You’re Not Lazy: How To Learn Anything Faster – Cliff Weitzman Founder of Speechify
👊 ‘You Just Lied’: Elon Musk Slaughters BBC Reporter In Live Interview
- This made me giggle