Think Week #28
51 Questions To Make Your Year-End Review The Most Insightful Ever
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Here’s your reading list for the week of December 29th, 2024.
S: 51 Questions To Make Your Year-End Review The Most Insightful Ever
M: Seven Predictions for Tech in 2025
T: What are the checks and balances on the power of Elon Musk?
W: Don't live a copy/paste life
T: The paradox of 'enough': wrestling with work, worth and rest
SUNDAY
51 Questions To Make Your Year-End Review The Most Insightful Ever
Written by Alberto Cabas Vidani
A question is right only when it makes a lightbulb switch on in YOUR mind. That's because I strongly believe without a constant work on ourselves, we can't succeed as creators.
MONDAY
Seven Predictions for Tech in 2025
Written by Alex Kantrowitz
GenAI is a powerful technology, but it's not for everyone. Over the past two years, a large number of companies have invested significantly in figuring out whether AI models, and bots like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, could give them an edge.
TUESDAY
What are the checks and balances on the power of Elon Musk?
Written by Noah Smith
Powerful people are simply inherently untrustworthy, because the consequences of misplacing your trust in them are so grave. But for most of modern American history, there have been checks and balances on these leaders, meaning that if they did turn out to be bad, there would be plenty of institutions and opponents in place to limit the damage.
WEDNESDAY
Don't live a copy/paste life
Written by Suzanne Heyn
Technology was supposed to free us, yet in many ways, it's made us clones. We spend so much time scrolling the algorithm, we've become the algorithm.
THURSDAY
The paradox of 'enough': wrestling with work, worth and rest
Written by Max Pete
The irony is that the harder and more I work, the less time I have to live and enjoy the things that ultimately bring me happiness.
FRIDAY
The interesting thing about interesting things
Written by Harrison Moore
Whilst all interesting things are novel, not all novelty is interesting, which means that to write truly compelling stuff, we have go beyond simply presenting new information.
SATURDAY
The Only Moat AI Can't Copy in 2025
Written by Martin
When AI makes everything polished, the definition of 'good' shifts. Silicon Valley feels like a karaoke night where every startup is trying to sing the same song.
FIN
December was the best month thus far for Indie Thinkers, and I’m excited to support hundreds of writers throughout 2025.
Happy New Year!
— Daniel
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Thank you for the mention, love this!