Assorted links #1

Quick update: I am spending a fair bit of time going deep on a sidequest; this leaves me with little time to update my Substack.

What does this mean: I will continue the weekly schedule. However, I will share more “assorted links” based on what I’ve been reading on the web, and an occasional music or book review. I will less frequently share long-form writings.

With that out of the way, let’s get into the best assorted links for the week gone by.

1. The Art of Finishing

2. On mourning and moving on — Rituals for Leaving a Career

3. Why pi^2 = g: A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: Brilliant!

4. Pay Attention: Simone Weil and the Art of Selflessness

5. Why AI isn’t going to make art, by Ted Chiang in the New Yorker. Great stuff, especially the last few paragraphs

6. Founder Mode, by Paul Graham. I get the spirit of the article, but I didn’t agree with most of it; I found the Steve Jobs example to be a case of cherry-picking. Satya and Tim Cook are great examples of “Founder Mode” + “Manager Mode”. It comes down clarity around what you want to own/run (as a founder) and what you want to delegate (in manager mode).

7. Why Restaurants Fail, by Shashank Mehta

8. Interview: With Epic Games Founder/CEO Tim Sweeney and Author Neal Stephenson, by Matthew Ball

9. “Bags Fly Free” and “Soup is Good Food” — The two archetypal marketing messages: Good read!

10. The Saddest “Just Ship It” Story Ever

3blue1brown dropped a new video in the Deep Learning series…

Keep reading, and until next week!