Episode for June 14, 2024
"If they're not using [coal mines] to make sustainable aviation fuel, the methane is going to go into the atmosphere."
"If they're not using [coal mines] to make sustainable aviation fuel, the methane is going to go into the atmosphere."
"Avoid the common traps with training. Make sure you do things at the firm level, with system developers and don't rely on junior professionals."
In 1988, less than 15% of Boston Public Schools' Black students were in "intensely segregated" schools, by 2003 it had jumped to 50%.
"The retailer-manufacturer relationship is undergoing significant disruption, creating new sources of growth but also new challenges."
"If Chinese domestic policy doesn’t change substantially, the pace of technological and scientific progress is going to slow down."
"There is pretty much nothing that humans do as a meaningful occupation that generative AI can now do."
"When China achieved its technological progress and inventiveness, was when China had a higher level of political and ideological competition."
"Find a problem that really matters, and for the next seven or ten years you will be waking up before your alarm clock."
"The explanation for the crisis of democracy in the industrialized world is that the system's performance has fallen short of what it promised."
High prices have driven a "big secondary market for Legos." The scarcity of some mini-figures has made them "a great investment."