“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.” —Charlie Munger
Poor Charlie’s Almanack is out today. You can read and listen to the new edition online, for free, at stripe.press/poor-charlies-…
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- Evolution of the Scaling Era cover: “It’s hard to find unique ways of visualizing AI without defaulting to the obvious,” says @pablodelcan. “In our design process, we experimented with unexpected metaphors—flowers growing out of neural networks, abstract mathematical puzzles
00:00 - The Art of Doing Science and Engineering is an unorthodox biography of mathematician Richard Hamming and a provocative challenge to anyone who wants to build something truly great. The new edition is now available for pre-order: amazon.com/dp/1732265178
- What is intelligence? What will it take to create AGI? What happens once we succeed? The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 by @dwarkesh_sp and @gleech explores the questions animating those at the frontier of AI research. It’s out today: press.stripe.com/scaling
00:00 - How was penicillin able to eliminate 80% of WWII battlefield deaths? Why did nails once make up 0.4% of US GDP? In The Origins of Efficiency, @_brianpotter unpacks how production efficiency happens, and why it is of civilizational importance. Preorder: press.stripe.com/origins-of-eff…
00:00 - Richard Hamming's life was a study in the importance of having a vision of greatness––and being relentless in the pursuit of it. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, with a foreword by @worrydream, is now available. 📚🔬💻 amazon.com/dp/1732265178
- press.stripe.com/scaling The past 6 years of AI growth can be summed up in a word: scaling. Since 2022, @dwarkesh_sp has interviewed experts on everything from the technical details of LLMs to the possibility of an AI takeover or explosive economic growth. The Scaling Era
- “Optimism can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.” In Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation, @ByrneHobart and @TobiasAHuber show how bubbles contributed to some of the biggest breakthroughs of the past 100 years—from the Apollo program to Bitcoin. Preorder: press.stripe.com/boom
- Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by @chughesjohnson is a practical guide to building a company’s operating systems and scaling the most important resource a company has: its people. Available for preorder now: press.stripe.com/scaling-people 📈
- Today, Stripe Press is republishing The Dream Machine, the story of JCR Licklider. He not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be. amzn.to/2QW0C9B
- Out now: press.stripe.com/origins-of-eff… 200 years on from the Industrial Revolution, we still struggle to understand what makes a production process more efficient. The Origins of Efficiency fills in that gap. Examining industries from steel to semiconductors to auto manufacturing,
- Cover evolution for The Origins of Efficiency: “We explored a wide range of options inspired by examples that @_brianpotter highlights in the book: light bulbs, nails, printing presses, and more,” says @pablodelcan. “Each built on the theme of transformation, showing how
00:00 - Accelerating low-risk, high-reward research will be key to confronting this century’s greatest challenges. In Scientific Freedom, Donald Braben offers a new path to discover and sponsor scientists with transformative ideas. 🔬 Now available for pre-order: amazon.com/dp/0578675919/
