Trevor McKendrick - Let there be light

Hi all,

I’m @ Fintech Meetup in Vegas today & tomorrow, and then SF Wed - Friday.

Would love to meet up if schedules align!

Trevor

A Nirav or a Naval? - that is the question (article)

One of those ideas that once you hear it you see it everywhere.

This is the idea of tech insiders vs outsiders.

I could never be an insider. Insiders are never allowed to say what they actually think.

Ben Thompson from Stratechery interviews Bill Simmons from The Ringer (article, possibly paywalled)

Covers the history of blogging, Bill’s career arc, why he’s still at and optimistic about Spotify, and more.

Vesuvius Challenge interview (youtube)

Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross are sponsoring a contest to help read the text on ancient scrolls.

What’s particularly cool is that they’re using technology to read the scrolls without unwinding the scrolls.

i.e. if you try to unwind the scrolls, they break. So a team led by Brent Seales figured out a way to use infrared to read inside the scrolls w/o unrolling them.

More details on the contest here

List of growth ideas (article)

From Lenny’s newsletter – if you need a list of ideas to get your creative juices flowing this is a solid place to start.

The Last Question (short story)

The famous(?) story by Isaac Asimov. Worth reading once for anyone having an existential crisis IMO.

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