Content I Consumed: Mouth Breathers and ChatGPT

Dec 07, 2022

I’m watching a lot of the World Cup right now. Big games this weekend!

Podcast

Two new The Search For Growth episodes - In The 7 Step Framework to Strategic Storytelling by Donald Miller we discuss what makes a good story, and how to use stories in sales. In Startup Lessons from 2x International Expansion at Spendesk we discuss how to build a GTM strategy in a new market, and what Alfie has learned expanding internationally twice.

Health

What Happens When One Twin Exercises and the Other Doesn’t - From the article - the lesson: that maelstrom of early-career and young-kid craziness is the hardest time to maintain an exercise habit—but it’s also the most crucial.
Super Agers are people in their 80s that can recall prior life events at a significantly higher rate than those in their 50s and 60s. Super Agers tend to use their brain every day and surround themselves with friends. The distinct pathophysiology of ‘SuperAger’ brains.
How you breathe affects your brain - One thing I learned in this article: breathing through your nose improves cognitive function and breathing through your mouth does not. I wonder if this is partially why “mouth breather” started as an insult for a stupid person.

AI Homework - This is excellent from Stratechery. This piece makes the case that AI may be used differently than expected. For instance, instead of a kid using AI to write an essay for their homework, maybe a kid gets an AI essay and must determine what is true and false about it (because AI will return a probabilistic answer and not a deterministic one).
The Day The AGI Was Born - OpenAI released ChatGPT in the last week and some people think that it looks similar to Artificial General Intelligence. Sam Altman says no. But some of the outputs are eerily right (and as you can see in the AI homework link, some basic math outputs are wrong).

Misc

Choose Good Quests - I’ve thought a lot about my career after the Continental Divide Trail. This piece compares careers to quests and whether those quests are good or bad. It aligns with my current thought process.
Sometime in your 20s the Forbes 30 under 30 craze hits, and you hear about peers that get noticed. This is a funny Shouts and Murmurs piece from 2017 - A Selection of the 30 Most Disappointing Under 30
52 Things I Learned in 2022 - 37% of the world’s population, 2.7B people, have never used the internet. At first glance, I think about the opportunity created to get everyone on the internet. But I wonder whether the internet is a technology searching for a problem in these circumstances. There are probably more pressing problems (access to clean water, electricity, etc.) that are higher priorities.
These Are the 89 Best Restaurants in California, Says Michelin Guide - Katie and I love trying new foods in San Francisco. I’ve been to three of these. Some can be relatively affordable like my favorite, Kin Khao.
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