10 Suggestions for a Nice Profession, Will AI Assist Us Discuss to Animals, an Financial Equity Metric to Rival GDP and +++ [link blog]

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Utilizing AI to speak to animals [Ina Fried/Axios] – Animals in all probability discuss. So it appears affordable to consider that AI will assist us decode the ‘language’ of not less than one species within the close to future.

Defining Financial Equity [Philip Rosedale/founder, Second Life] – I admire that Philip, a technologist at coronary heart, is writing about equity as associated to, however separate from, financial equality. Equity is a very highly effective idea – there’s a logical and emotional element to it. Optimizing for progress with out contemplating equity leads us to a few of the political and societal points in America (and the world) right this moment. In addition to leaders who search to use the sense of unfairness to their very own features. As Philip lays out on this submit from 2023,

I write about this as a result of I believe a equity metric of this sort is doable, and for my part ought to be as or extra vital than a statistic like GDP. Additional, I believe that perceived financial equity has steadily decreased over time in the identical approach that the world’s Gini index has progressively elevated. I additionally suspect that in lots of international locations perceived equity is so low that earlier than lengthy we are going to see violent revolutions or different disruptive and damaging resets taking place. If we had been conscious of our collective sense of unfairness, we’d be extra prone to take motion earlier than it’s too late.

After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, right here’s how my considering has modified [JP Koning/Moneyness] – I’m solely ankle deep within the crypto world however a lot of this submit resonates for me. The creator, bullish or not less than supportive of many makes use of for BTC, principally is cautious of the business utilizing its energy to power governments to amass Bitcoin as a part of a nationwide reserve technique.

Though I by no means wished to ban Bitcoin, I can’t assist however wonder if a prohibition wouldn’t have been the higher coverage again in 2013 or 2014 given the brand new bitcoin-by-force path that advocates are pushing it in the direction of. But it surely’s in all probability too late for that; the coin is already out of the bag. All I can hope is that my lengthy historical past of writing on the subject may persuade a couple of readers that forcing others to play the sport you like just isn’t honest recreation.

10 issues I want I knew about careers after I began [Molly Graham/Glue Club] – I take into consideration 75% of my hyperlink posts embody one thing from Molly, and we’d in all probability all be higher off if it was 100%. Title is self-explanatory right here.

I additionally spent a number of my early profession speeding to the highest of a ladder. If I might return and provides my 20-year-old self some recommendation, it could be to cease obsessing about leveling up and focus extra on studying about myself and the world. A strong basis for an ideal profession is a transparent and deep sense of what you’re distinctive at (which is constructed from experiences) and a robust, deep community full of people that love working with you.