The Jony Ive Design for Christie’s Rostrum
Of course, we know the auctioneer won’t understand how the mechanism was designed and how it functions, but I do believe they will sense care.
Jony Ive and his design team even designed the new Christie’s Rostrum. I only learned what a Rostrum was after watching this video. He articulates so well.
Running Agents on Kubernetes with Agent Sandbox
Kubernetes joins the agent orchestration game.
How Many Wealthy Americans Are There?
There are about 430,000 U.S. households worth $30 million or more, according to an analysis of Federal Reserve data by Zidar. Within that, there are about 74,000 worth $100 million or more. Over the past few decades, the growth in the number of very rich households has surpassed general population growth.
Many of them are boomers, which shows the power of compound interest.
Drinking 2-3 Cups of Coffee a Day Tied to Lower Dementia Risk
Evidence from a study of more than 130,000 people suggests that two to three cups of coffee a day can reduce dementia risk and slow cognitive decline.
Tea with caffeine also helps.
The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming Is Obsolete
What if Jimmy is right? If the DSPs are “minutes away from obsolete,” what replaces them? Well, I’m not sure the DSPs are going to disappear overnight, but if you’re an artist or a manager trying to sustain yourself in this evolving music economy, the answer is direct ownership.
A Shopify for music artists? Honestly, I LOVE the experience of being able to listen to any song I can think of within 10 seconds.
Why the ATM Didn’t Kill the Bank Teller
And I suggested that given the vast number of frictions and bottlenecks that exist in any human domain—domains that are, after all, defined around human labor in all its warts and eccentricities, with workflows designed around humans in mind—we should expect to see a serious gap between the incredible power of the technology and its impacts on economic life.
First, by reducing the cost of operating a bank branch, ATMs indirectly increased the demand for tellers: the number of tellers per branch fell by more than a third between 1988 and 2004, but the number of urban bank branches (also encouraged by a wave of bank deregulation allowing more branches) rose by more than 40 percent. Second, as the routine cash-handling tasks of bank tellers receded, information technology also enabled a broader range of bank personnel to become involved in “relationship banking.” Increasingly, banks recognized the value of tellers enabled by information technology, not primarily as checkout clerks, but as salespersons, forging relationships with customers and introducing them to additional bank services like credit cards, loans, and investment products.
But by talking about why ATMs didn’t displace bank tellers but iPhones did, I want to highlight an important corollary, which is that the true force of a technology is felt not with the substitution of tasks, but the invention of new paradigms.
Fantastic writing. I also learned about the Jevons paradox.
AI can do science too, of course. There is also AI doing AI: PostTrainBench.