These are books and articles I plan to read. I have not read them yet, I just did not have the time so far.
It was Saturday morning, January 3, 2026. A message from former President Donald Trump about a large-scale attack on Venezuela set the internet ablaze. Within minutes, images flooded social media platforms such as X, Instagram, and TikTok. We saw President Nicolás Maduro being led away in handcuffs by American agents. We saw cheering crowds in Caracas. We saw American troops landing. The problem? Much of this footage did not exist.
It had been generated by AI. While the world tried to understand whether a coup was actually taking place, millions of people were watching a fabricated reality. This incident marks a definitive tipping point. The line between fact and fiction has blurred.
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https://gregmckeown.com/if-you-dont-design-your-career-someone-else-will/ (found on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352930)
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We shall pick one “true north” career objective, then protect it by saying no to the good-but-distracting stuff.
If we keep six priorities, we really have zero.
Everything competes.
Progress gets diluted.
We stay “busy” but not “moving.”One true north forces tradeoffs.
It turns choices into a simple test:
Does this help my main objective this year.
If not, it is a no, defer, or delegate.
- https://www.aiforswes.com/p/you-dont-need-to-spend-100mo-on-claude (found on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348329)
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IMO, building your own hardware to run a model that will soon be outdated is not economically viable. At best, it makes sense as an exercise or learning experiment. That said, privacy can eventually outweigh the downside of running an outdated model.