Questions I asked this week...
Exploring the edges of our awareness to uncover the unevenly distributed future that most of us can barely imagine.
(1) What is the literacy rate in the US?
The topic of illiteracy in America piqued my interest after listening to Stanford’s Future of Everything podcast about the future of reading. Living in Chicago, I've heard stories of schools where no students read at grade level.
(2) What is the pax6 gene in humans, octopuses, and squids?
In Brian Klaas's book "Fluke", I learned a fascinating fact: over the last 500 million years, humans, octopuses, and squids have evolved the same eyes using identical genes. But how?
(3) What is the size of private credit market?
"Invest Like The Best" is a podcast favorite of mine because of the insightful questions asked that I wouldn't have thought of. In a recent episode, I learned the importance of the private credit market, which I had not known about before, thinking banks were the primary lenders in our economy.
(4) How does Pegasus spyware work? Be technical using simple and straightforward language.
On our recent "Beat the Odds" podcast, my friend Dre discussed the wild world of hacks. One of my other homies later shared an article about Pegasus, a creepy software I'd never heard of, which made me realize how vulnerable we are as humans.
(5) What is dimensional reasoning?
In a YC Startup School presentation on growth and retention, Facebook VP of Growth Alex Schultz shared an intriguing example. When faced with limited data, Facebook used dimensional analysis to estimate retention, a technique that was also employed to calculate the power of nuclear bombs in the 1950s.
