Friends of Dave #328: milk's favorite cookie
Maybe the most insightful preamble ever.
Ready for it?
Here it is:
Don’t believe everything you read.
That’s it, Friends….that’s this week’s insightful preamble….don’t hate me…it was a busy week…
Consider it my April Fool’s Day submission for you.
If you are yearning for something really insightful (seriously, jokes aside), check out this » podcast / interview « between MIT research scientist Lex Fridman and Open AI founder Sam Altman about the future of AI — play it on 1.5x speed. I listened to the whole thing — it’s long, a little technical in parts, but worth it if you are thinking about where all of this AI/ChatGPT stuff is potentially leading us.
Otherwise, enjoy the links below!
XOXO
Dave
Think on This…
To overcome knowingness, we need a humbler and more curious stance toward knowledge.
For the better part of a decade, scholars and writers across the globe have lamented the growing prevalence of misinformation, conspiracism, ideology, mistrust of experts, epistemic bubbles and echo chambers. But, in fact, the information age reveals how little we each already know.
For Your Day Job…
Workers want to feel engaged, not just well paid.
Last year, researchers from Harvard Business School and the Burning Glass Institute found evidence of what they called “an emerging degree reset” in hiring. The report concluded that based on the trends they were observing, an additional 1.4 million jobs could open to workers without college degrees in the next five years.
Your Weekly Dose of Randomness…
INFOGRAPH: Where are Clean Energy Technologies Manufactured?
Based on the IEA’s 2023 Energy Technology Perspectives report, the visualization above breaks down global manufacturing capacity by region for mass-manufactured clean energy technologies, including onshore and offshore wind, solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, electric vehicles (EVs), fuel cell trucks, heat pumps, and electrolyzers.
MIT Researchers Twisted Apart Hundreds of Oreos to Find the Perfect Method
Researchers at the MIT unveiled their cookie-centric findings in a study titled, "On Oreology, the fracture and flow of 'milk's favorite cookie’,” focused on if and how people could evenly split the crème inside an Oreo when twisting it open.
If you want to earn or keep the self-proclaimed title of “expert traveler,” don’t be these six people at security checkpoints.
When I say I don’t remember that much about Jason or Mark, I’m not trying to be rude. I’d be shocked if Jason and Mark recall more about me than I do about them. We were casual friends who, nonetheless, in the era of landlines and first-generation Macintoshes, spent enormous amounts of time together.
I remember them now as good-enough friends.
As the crisis in teen mental health deepens, and teens spend less and less time hanging out and making connections, the author wonders whether if perhaps part of the problem is the disappearance of those random acquaintances that filled the void in high school (you know, the ones you only think about or interact with now when Facebook says it’s their birthday). Interesting point of view.