What I’m Reading - 5/5/2024
Happy Cinco de Mayo to all who celebrate! I have had quite the week. When I got home Monday from Stagecoach, I found my refrigerator no longer working. So, my wine fridge is now holding what little food I had in it until I can try to clean the coils today and hopefully get it working again.
I’m also spending a lot of this weekend doing an audit of how I’m spending my time. I can’t keep feeling this exhausted and busy but also less productive. On Friday, I looked at the last four months and broke down my various meetings and calls into categories. Then, I looked at the screen time app Apple provides. That was a wake-up call. I have way more of a social media and email problem than I thought. 😬
Nick Sonnenberg, who has a great book called Come Up for Air, wrote this week about looking for places where seconds can be shaved off of a task and how those can add up. I'm going to think about this, too. One thing I did recently that was a huge help was setting up snippets in Superhuman - the email interface I use - for common things I send in email, like my bio or a link to my Calendly.
Anyway, if you have any good time management tips you use, please share! Or, if you know where to get that magic watch Hermione had in Harry Potter so she could take three classes at once, that would be amazing.
Finally, a huge thank you to Marcus, who recently joined Duco as an intern, for his help in formatting these links.
Happy Sunday!
What I’m Reading
Washington Post: The AI hype bubble is deflating. Now comes the hard part
The Information: As Tech Firms Prioritize AI in News Dealings, Other Deals Get Cut
Economist: Large language models are getting bigger and better
Zinc Labs: Quick Start AI Guidelines for Democratic Campaigns
Big Technology: Elon Musk’s Plan For AI News
Asterisk Mag: Debugging Tech Journalism
Washington Post: An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi’s India
Aljazeera: Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead in Baghdad night attack
CNN Business: Australia is taking on ‘arrogant billionaire’ Elon Musk over violent images on X
Persuasion India’s Election is Eerily Quiet
Reuters: Roblox players to start seeing video ads in its virtual realms
The Wire: Far-Right Shadow Advertisers Dominate Indian Poll Spending on Meta for Pro-Modi, Anti-Muslim Push
Axios: Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement
Axios: Scoop: House members warned not to block online critics
European Commission: Commission opens formal proceedings against Facebook and Instagram under the Digital Services Act
Financial Times: EU to probe Meta over handling of Russian disinformation
Knight Columbia: Zuckerman v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
House Committee on the Judiciary: Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
Foreign Affairs Don’t Hype the Disinformation Threat
The Verge: Republicans release tech executives’ internal communications
CBC These TikTok influencers exploit trending topics and hashtags to get political
Covertly Yours The Case of African Elections: Why This Title Is Misleading
International Republican Institute: The Authoritarian Nexus – How Russia and China Undermine Democracy Worldwide
Oversight Board: Content Moderation in a Historic Election Year: Key Lessons for Industry
Ballotpedia: Ballotpedia and Decision Desk HQ Partner To Offer Real-time Local Election Results Coverage
The Klonickles: Why Does the EU Have No Tech Industry?
Google: Google Online Security Blog: How we fought bad apps and bad actors in 2023
Microsoft: Providing further transparency on our responsible AI efforts
Associated Press: Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Indonesia
Washington Post: Meta’s Oversight Board plans layoffs in push to cut costs
Tech Policy Press: Meta’s New Default Limits on “Political Content” Weaken Free Expression Online
Blackbird AI: Elections 2024: Know the Narrative
Pew Research Center: Americans’ Views of Technology Companies
Morning Consult: Global Corporate Purpose Tracker
Reporters without Borders: 2024 World Press Freedom Index – journalism under political pressure
Lenny’s Newsletter: Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more
Creative Input: Axios co-founders Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei on the power of prosperity and perspective
Disjointed: My remarks at Substack’s recent politics party in Washington D.C.
Bon Appetit: The 50 Best Bars in North America, According to the ‘50 Best’ List (2024)
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