Reading · Summation by Auren Hoffman

Here are five links worth reading…

Face it: you’re a crazy person by Adam Mastroianni
A simple guide to unpacking any dream with ruthless specificity before chasing it. Adam gives some of the clearest, most straightforward career advice that anyone, in just about any field, can use.

How Pickleball Explains American Culture by Derek Thompson
Pickleball, the fastest growing sport in America, is now more popular than baseball. A case study in how American fitness fads follow fashion cycles and “familiar surprise.”

How I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old by Erik Hoel
Practical methods + data to get your kid to “the only literacy milestone worth caring about,” reading for pleasure.

The Only Right Way to Ask for an Intro (Everything Else Is Wrong)
My definitive, battle-tested, no-BS guide to asking for introductions, complete with email templates.

Bonus (Listen): OpenAI CSO Jason Kwon: Power, Policy and the Race to Scale on World of Daas pod
Jason Kwon lays out the real AI bottlenecks (compute and power at the industry level, bet selection and org design at the company level) plus why U.S. policy should focus on energy, faster adoption, and attracting top talent.

Should We Have Kept The American Empire? by Maxwell Tabarrok
If the U.S. had retained more of its 1918 holdings, would economic and political outcomes have been better for those territories and for America?

How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably by Steph Smith
Greatness is about consistency over time, where small repeatable actions compound into major gains, though most people quit at the inevitable local minimums before reaching the next peak.

|Bonus: The Chess Cheating Epidemic by Danny Rensch
Cheating has become rampant in elite chess since the rise of AI. The Chief Chess Officer of Chess.com shares the story of the algorithm they developed to catch cheaters, and how it was used against an American grandmaster.

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