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Constantly Curious - Edition #32

Constantly Curious - Edition #32

Mafia Boss Tells All 👀, Starship's Second Launch 🚀, How a Top Gambler Disrupted the Dallas Mavericks 🏀 & More!

Nick Wolf
November 23, 2023

Welcome to Constantly Curious, Edition #32!

This week at a glance:

Videos I’m Watching
Articles I’m Reading
Podcasts I’m Listening Too
Posts that Caught my Eye
Ideas that I’m Thinking About

If this is your first time reading - welcome! Let your curiosity run wild with us every Thursday at 12pm EST.

With that said, let’s get into it -

Videos I’m Watching…

Articles I’m Reading…

PRO TIPS: For any articles that are paywall’d, refer to CC #11 or CC #19 for a way to bypass. OR, utilize your iPhone’s “Reader View” in your browser (this works occasionally)

🎁 The Ultimate 2023 Gift Guide (All The Hacks)

🧠 A Brief History of OpenAI (Chamath Palihapitiyah)

📖 2023’s Books We Love List (NPR)

👻 Sam Altman’s Firing was a Battle for AI’s Soul (Morning Brew)

That Thursday Feeling

Podcasts I’m Listening Too…

Inside the OpenAI Meltdown

Listen to this episode from Plain English with Derek Thompson on Spotify. Today’s episode is about whatever the hell just happened—is still happening—at OpenAI, where CEO Sam Altman has been fired, almost rehired, and then shipped off to Microsoft, while the most famous startup in artificial intelligence self-immolates for reasons that the company refuses to explain. Our panel has some theories.

Posts that Caught My Eye…

Wild Netflix story.
In 2018, it bought a sci-fi series from director Carl Rinsch. By 2020, Netflix spent $44m on the show.
Production was floundering and Rinsch demanded $11m more. He took the funds and quickly lost ~$6m in pharma option YOLOs.
A bit later, he took $4m and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan)
10:53 PM • Nov 22, 2023