HeyJaredWeekend Reads
A compendium of cross-disciplinary ideas, thoughtful perspectives and investment trends curated by Ash Thaker
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Weekend Reads #464 (opens the original)
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Robert Oppenheimer doing an IPO for the Manhattan Project in 1945. - LinkThe real disaster of British energy policy is trying to deliver an energy transition through a form of privatisation that has lost its original logic. The UK has entirely exhausted the “endowment” of physical infrastructure built by the nationalized state in the 1970s. Privatized companies spent decades “sweating” these assets to maximize margins.. - LinkThe Com
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NewsThe Bear Cave can now report an underexamined feature of the machine behind Jackson’s success. Instead of paying JNL every quarter in full for losses incurred in that quarter, Brooke Re stretches its tab over three years with quarterly payments.- LinkHow money moved across Mark Walter’s empire -
Weekend Reads #462 (opens the original)
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Treasury isn’t merely shutting down an anti-corruption database. It’s deleting the data so future investigators can’t use it. - LinkAmodei: building AI at a balanced rate that aims to ensure its safety while still achieving its benefits and grappling with important geopolitical dilemmas. - Linkis the U.S. bond market worried about the national debt and the coming surge in AI borrowing? One argument that it isn’t is the lo
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America’s New Debt Reality - LinkWhy I Want More AI at Dartmouth: Universities that hide from the technology will merely secure their irrelevance. - LinkMichael Moritz with Tyler Cowen - LinkDr Jones Physics in Motion - LinkThe quality you should most wish for your children - The benefits of having an internal locus of control
Weekend Reads #460 (opens the original)
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NewsHistory shows that when a company starts acquiring the attributes of a state — the revenues, the courts, the treaties, the capacity to make war and peace — its transformation can damage the parent country at least as much as the territories it exploits. - LinkWhat is the artificial state? It’s the successor state to a liberal democracy, right? A - k… Read more
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