If you only have 30 minutes this week, watch (at 2.0x) this video about whether free will is an illusion and why it would matter.

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Entrepreneurial Careers & The Future of Work

• Stanford Business School – Future Proof Yourself in the Reinvention Revolution

• Paul Graham – How to do great work

• HBR – Why Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Venture Capital

• Stanford Business School – Build Impactful Expert Networks

Macroeconomics & Innovation History

• The Fed – Distressed Firms and the Large Effects of Monetary Policy Tightenings

• Bloomberg – China Has $3T ‘Hidden’ Currency Reserves

• CNBC – Apple Market cap Tops $3T for First Time Ever

• AP – The S&P500 is in a Bull Market. Here’s What that Means and How Long the Bull Might Run

• Morgan Stanley – Bracing for a U.S. Earnings Recession

• Business Insider – Wall Street Can’t Agree on Where Stocks Are Headed in the 2nd Half of this Year

Alternative Investments

• Clarify Capital – GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitchdeck Creation

• SSRN – Using Deep Learning to Identify the Next Unicorn

• JSTOR – Can VCs Time the Market?

Global Real Estate, Hospitality & Travel

• FlyingMagazine – Flying Car Manufacturer, Aska Nabs Milestone FAA Airworthiness Approval

• Business Insider – It’s a Cruel Summer for AirBnB and Vrbo Hosts as Listings Get Squeezed

Transformative Technologies

• New Product – InflectionAI   

• Gizmodo – Meta Offers a Glimpse into the Black Box of AI Ranking

• Aarthi & Sriram – Vitalik Buterin on Crypto’s Future

• Vivek Goyal – AI Agents – Next Frontier to Access the Web  

• Alec Torelli – The Next Crypto Cycle

STEM: Expanding Your Horizons

• Scientific American – Where’s Waldo? How to Mathematically Prove You Found Him Without Revealing Where He Is

• World Science Festival – The Golden Age of Space Exploration

• Space.com – SpaceX Launches Rocket to Map the ‘Dark Universe’

• Discover – If We Can’t Send People Back in Time, Can We Send Information?

Art, Culture & Entertainment

• The Living Philosopher – Camino de Santiago: Why I Hiked and What I Learned

On LIFE: Spirituality, Philosophy & Parenting

• WSJ – Is ‘this’ it? When Success isn’t Satisfying

• Warren Buffet – How We Gauge Someone’s Reputation

• Philosophize This – What if Free Will is an Illusion? ***

• Chief Executive – The Strategic Value of Kindness

• Bronnie Ware – The Regrets of the Dying