P.S. You Should Know... | Issue #392

Bonus summer starting

my story 🚀

😎 Ever since we came to Austin I’ve considered the fall season to be a “bonus summer”. To kick off this year’s bonus summer I’m copying a smart friend by gambling on a silly crypto meme token based on a baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng. If I’m lucky I can parlay the winnings into ACL tickets. This is not financial advice. Wish me luck.

fun facts 🙌

Can you tune a fish? This impressive youtube creator was determined to finds out. Yes, it turns out, you can tune a fish. If you’re into engineering you might get a kick out of this. ~ learn more

The Boss is the biggest bear in the Banff area. This infamous grizzly weighs 650 lbs, has survived being hit by a train, and has even eaten a black bear that he killed. ~ learn more

Russian-speaking Koryoins are moving back to their ancestral homeland. “Amid a plummeting birth rate and associated labour shortages, South Korea is touting the settlement of Koryoins and other ethnic Koreans as a possible solution to the nation's population crisis.” ~ learn more

Pipe dream. My daughter was playing a that reminded me of the old Pipe Dream. It turn out you can play online now! ~ learn more

tech, startups, internet ⚡

The end of advertising. “For decades, the economic relationship between consumers of content and the providers of content has been hidden behind business models that were monetizing our attention. We didn’t put too much thought into it because we were getting what we wanted with minimal effort or cost. But as AI increasingly disrupts these models, the relationship between us and publishers will become much more transactional and direct. And we will feel it.” ~ learn more

The FTC’s out there cracking the whip on BS AI. “The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is putting companies on notice—if businesses try to fool customers by overstating what their AI can do, they’ll face serious consequences. Also known as AI washing, the FTC announced Tuesday it had filed complaints against five companies that it said used the hype around AI to target consumers with deceptive offers.” ~ learn more

better doing 🎯

The Mr. Beast memo is a guide to the Gen Z workforce. I read the original memo after reading this article and I am glad I did. ~ learn more

The skill of naming what’s happening in the room. “Your observations—of the energy on the call, of a change in someone’s tone or body language, of how you as a group are not meeting the desired goal—can reset this frustrated dynamic. Often, everyone else in the room will also sense these things, but folks rarely say them out loud.” ~ learn more

to your health ⚕

5 healthyish things, including David bars and full-body MRI scans. I’ve been really enjoying Derek Flanzraich’s new newsletter. “If you're new here, every Thursday I share 5 health-related things I feel strongly about. I explore, double click, and curate healthy things so you can just live healthyish (and spend less time scrolling).” ~ learn more

under the microscope 🔬

Can plasma protein levels be a surrogate for VO2 max testing? Peter Attia reviews a newly published paper and he doesn’t hate it. “A proteomics model may provide an alternative method for estimating risk of mortality and chronic disease.” ~ learn more

thoughts of food 🍔

Delivery apps are big on discounting these days. “A study by researcher Intouch Insight found that nearly half (49%) of delivery orders have a discount attached. That included 65% of orders on DoorDash, 55% on Uber Eats and 27% on Grubhub.” ~ learn more

big ideas 📚

The cultural power of elite immigrants. This is long and provocative and starts with conflating elite cultural status and high IQ, which is a leap you may or may not agree with. “High-IQ immigrants will have major impacts on the places they end up not only because they have an ideology, but also because being a high-ability individual gives them the power to influence places so that they end up more in line with their ideology. This can, of course, be both good and bad, and opinions about what cognitively elite immigrants do will differ.” ~ learn more

thanks for reading!