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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
More where this came from! news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/p/zd-2512-le...
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ZD 25.12: Learn AI Like a Pro II
How to keep up with AI.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Looking to learn how to implement AI with other leaders? Check out Lead With AI PRO! www.flexos.work/leadwithai-pro
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Lead with AI PRO
Join Lead with AI PRO – gain exclusive AI insights, connect with an active community, and learn from monthly expert masterclasses. Start today with a free second month!
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Trying to get your vibe code on? Do you want to build in AI but need a community with tutorials and support on where to start? Ben's Bites is a great place to figure that out. bensbites.com
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Ben's Bites
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Do you want the firehose of AI chat from x, reddit and discord? Get AI News today. It has what you need. buttondown.com/ainews
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AI News
We summarize top AI discords + AI reddits + AI X/Twitters, and send you a roundup each day! See archive for examples. "Highest-leverage 45 mins I spend everyday" - Soumith "best AI newsletter atm" ...
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Trying to understand the contact point between cutting edge models and client APIs? Simon Willison is the best in the world at distilling that to what matters. simonwillison.net
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Simon Willison’s Weblog
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Need to be the best at using AI for your knowlege work and thinking about how to integrate AI into your creative process? Every has you covered. every.to
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Every
A daily newsletter on what comes next in tech. 75K+ readers.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Are you trying struggling to keep up with the bleeding edge? Looking for communities of like minded souls to work with on your collective AI journey? This 🧵 is for you!
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Find all of this and much more at news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/p/zd-2512-le...
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ZD 25.12: Learn AI Like a Pro II
How to keep up with AI.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
What if a rationalist read all the AI news on X and curated it into a lengthly but very informative weekly post? The Zvi does it and you can get it weekly at thezvi.substack.com
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Don't Worry About the Vase | Zvi Mowshowitz | Substack
A world made of gears. Doing both speed premium short term updates and long term world model building. Currently focused on weekly AI updates. Explorations include AI, policy, rationality, medicine an...
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
China is a main character in the AI saga. Keep up on happenings there with China Talk. www.chinatalk.media
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ChinaTalk | Jordan Schneider | Substack
Deep coverage of technology, China, and US policy. We feature original analysis alongside interviews with leading thinkers and policymakers. Click to read ChinaTalk, a Substack publication with tens o...
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Need a good monthly guide to AI that keeps things in context? Check out Nathaniel Beniach's monthly guide to AI. nathanbenaich.substack.com
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Guide to AI | Nathan Benaich | Substack
The monthly newsletter analysing the most important AI technology, research, geopolitics and startups. Click to read Guide to AI, by Nathan Benaich, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of su...
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Need a daily that captures the big stuff and has cool AI tools coverage? Check out The Neuron. www.theneurondaily.com
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The Neuron
Don't fall behind on AI. Get the AI trends and tools you need to know. Join 500,000+ professionals from top companies like Microsoft, Apple, Salesforce and more. 👇
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Need a fast summary of the AI news of the day? Check out @tldrnews.bsky.social AI coverage. refer.tldr.tech/d1fa2dc9/2
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TLDR Newsletter - A Byte Sized Daily Tech Newsletter
TLDR is the free daily newsletter with the most interesting stories in startups, tech and programming!
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Want to learn AI like a pro? Check out the 🧵 for some of the best ways to keep up with the madness from your friends at The Zeitgeist Distilled.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It's coming tomorrow! Check out the musical coda for a taste @ suno.com/song/3b9174c... Subscribe today @ news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/subscribe
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
All this and more in the full edition. Read it today! news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/p/zd-2507-th...
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ZD 25.07: The New Search Engines on the Block
You can use ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini as your search engine. Should you?
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Search Engine Shootout Winners Current Cultural Events: ChatGPT Where to go to Lunch: Gemini Local Weather: Perplexity Soccer Matches this Week: none Shopping: perplexity news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/i/157337670/...
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ZD 25.07: The New Search Engines on the Block
You can use ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini as your search engine. Should you?
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
OpenAI's deep research is very, very good at what it does. Good enough it has Evan Armstrong wondering how it will effect his future economic value like all knowlege workers. every.to/napkin-math/...
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Does OpenAI’s Deep Research Put Me Out of a Job?
An investigation into a Sam Altman tweet
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
AI is amazing for product leaders. Peter Yang shares a dozen strategies to improve your life in that profession. creatoreconomy.so/p/a-week-in-...
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A Week in My Life as a Product Leader with AI
I tracked every time I used AI in a work week - here are the 17 stand-out use cases
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This post will likely fade away in obscurity, like most of the rest of the things I post. Tommy Blanchard explains why it feels like the algorithm hates you too. cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/why-the-al...
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Why The Algorithm Hates You
And other adventures with sampling bias
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Young men are an enigma. Esquire interviewed a dozen non-influencer, non-superstar youth to get a better picture of where their heads were at. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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How Do Young Men See the World? We Asked Them.
Everyone else agrees they’re struggling. But how do men themselves feel about it? We sat down with twelve everyday guys from across America to get their candid opinions—on money, masculinity, Donald T...
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Have you ever wondered how ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity compare to each other as a general search engine? I did, and I decided to put all three through a little test. All that and more in this week's edition. Details in the 🧵
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Subscribe today for more like this. Next issue drops tomorrow! news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/subscribe/
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We read 500 e-newsletters, extract the zeitgeist and package it for readers weekly. Click to read The Zeitgeist Distilled, by Wyatt Barnett, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Get the full rundown on your media replacement therapay at news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/i/156319960/...
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ZD 25.05: Making the Most of the Media Revolution
Is it time for a newer, better media diet?
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
ChatGPT might not really be that bad for the environment. The breakdown @ andymasley.substack.com/p/individual...
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Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
AI is radically changing user interface paradigms at a pace not seen since graphical interfaces became possible. It is effectively a new chapter in the very long book about how humans and machines can work together @ www.unknownarts.co/p/8-design-b...
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8 Design Breakthroughs Defining AI's Future
How key interface decisions are shaping the next era of human-computer interaction
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The world is moving at breaknecks speed. Things are changing so fast, the most important time in history is now. More @ unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-most-i...
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The Most Important Time in History Is Now
AGI Is Coming Sooner Due to o3, DeepSeek, and Other Cutting-Edge AI Developments
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I think we have hit the point where you can replace almost all of your primary news consumption with the right collection of newsletters. All that and more in the last edition of the Zeitgeist Distilled. news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/p/zd-2505-ma...
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ZD 25.05: Making the Most of the Media Revolution
Is it time for a newer, better media diet?
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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We read 500 e-newsletters, extract the zeitgeist and package it for readers weekly. Click to read The Zeitgeist Distilled, by Wyatt Barnett, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
How can you live at only 10 bits a second? This does not read like an academic paper! arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234
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The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at ~10^...
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
ChatGPT-4o seems to be competent at rendering early modern text readable and has lost a lot of its hallucination issues. For more advanced translations, OpenAI o1 does a much better job of interpreting complicated texts than it’s predecessors. resobscura.substack.com/p/the-leadin...
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The leading AI models are now good historians
... in specific domains. Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The specter of DOGE is stalking DC as I write this. DOGE is now organized under the banner of the US Digital Service — the outfit Obama created to fix Healthcare.gov. Samuel Hammond explains how it is charged with modernizing US software systems. We could see web3 come to government services soon.
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DOGEmaxing
we do a little government efficiency
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Not unlike a number of other businesses in America, it seems that there has been significant consolidation in the potato business. bittmanproject.com/the-rise-of-...
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The Rise Of Big Potato | The Bittman Project
Allegations of price collusions among the potato cartel reveal the new, sophisticated methods food corporations are using to keep prices high.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
DeepSeek is an interesting platform. We explore its history, the technology, if and how you should use it and what it means for AI. Beyond the feature we’ve got notes about the rise of Big Potato, AI in Washington, what chatbot to use, and how humans process information at 10bps.
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ZD 25.04: DeepSeeking Missile
DeepSeek launched a rocket this week. Is it time to ride it?
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Goddam right.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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We read 500 e-newsletters, extract the zeitgeist and package it for readers weekly. Click to read The Zeitgeist Distilled, by Wyatt Barnett, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ChinaTalk on what the headlines miss about DeepSeek www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-w...
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DeepSeek: What the Headlines Miss
Posting will continue until the takes improve
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The Zvi looks at DeepSeek R1 thezvi.substack.com/p/on-deepsee...
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On DeepSeek's r1
r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The Zvi looks at DeepSeek V3, the Six Million Dollar Model thezvi.substack.com/p/deekseek-v...
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DeepSeek v3: The Six Million Dollar Model
What should we make of DeepSeek v3?
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ChinaTalk's interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng gives you a lot of insight into the main character. www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-c...
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Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race
Annotated translation of its CEO's deepest interview
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Did you wake up wondering what happened to your $NVDA calls and who the hell DeepSeek is? Here are four things in a 🧵 that will help you understand what it is and where the potential might lie.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
If you were at CES you would have seen many zombie brands. Including four versions of Kodak! www.engadget.com/general/a-ta...
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A tale of four Kodaks
CES 2025 was a good time to check in on how many zombie brands are littering the floor of the consumer electronics industry.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Links I would GChat You went and did a newsletter author chainmail project that came out amazing. See what the writers read! linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/your-favor...
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Your favorite newsletter’s favorite newsletters
A chain-letter love note to an expanding multiverse
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
One thing I did not see at CES was a CD player. They were once all over the floor. Learn about how the CD came to pass. obsoletesony.substack.com/p/the-creati...
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The Creation of the Compact Disc
From Collaboration to Revolution
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Learn about five contrarian ideas about Workplace AI. It is not going to help where you think it will help. www.exponentialview.co/p/five-contr...
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👀 Five contrarian ideas about genAI in the workplace
Everyone knows of AI, but do they *know* AI?
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
CES 2025 has come and gone! It was a long and strange trip, TVs were note where they should have been among the fleets of drones. Smart glasses were everywhere. I spotted a few gems worth mentioning. Check out this week's edition for all that and more! news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/p/zd-2502-th...
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ZD 25.02: The CES Report
What happens at CES does not need to stay in Vegas.
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The most amazing review of our 2024 content in audio form. news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/p/the-zeitge...
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The Zeitgeist Roasted 2024
If you can't roast yourself who can you roast?
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Wyatt Barnett @wwb099.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
"It is going to be an amazing year in software, especially if you are building things. What you can accomplish using low and no code solutions today is astounding." news.zeitgeistdistilled.com/i/154204919/...
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ZD 25.01: Will '25 Be a Good Year?
What to expect in a world where we should expect the unexpected.
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