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Weekly Dose of Optimism (1 July 2022)
First Weekly Dose of Optimism 10 articles, podcasts, essays, books, and videos to give you a jolt of optimism going into the long weekend.
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1. Energy Superabundance: How Cheap, Abundant Energy Will Shape Our Future by @elidourado & @Vernon3Austin
"flying cars, hyperloop, sub-orbital point-to-point travel, electric autonomous trucking, vertical farming, water desalination... so much more"
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3. Five Reasons Everybody Is Wrong About a U.S. Recession -- Including Me by @DKThomp w/ @conorsen
"Bear markets like this are a fire alarm, and when you look around, you’re not seeing those flames."
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3a. The Vibecession by @kylascan
(Bonus! related to podcast above)
"Vibecession - a period of temporary vibe decline where economic data such as trade and industrial activity are relatively okayish"
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4. Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models from @alewkowycz
& the Google Research Team
"We hope that general models capable of solving quantitative reasoning problems will help push the frontiers of science and education."
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5. The surprising use for these gene-edited trees by @cleoabram on @living_carbon
"Sometime soon, humanity is gonna need to take on a responsibility that no species has ever had before: to deliberately, continuously regulate the atmosphere of a planet."
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6. CRISPR, 10 Years On by @carlzimmer
"Cancer biologists are using [CRISPR] to discover hidden vulnerabilities of tumor cells. Doctors are using CRISPR to edit genes that cause hereditary diseases."
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8. Frontier facilitates first carbon removal purchases by @stripe et al
"The majority of Frontier’s $925M of committed capital will go toward multiyear offtake agreements designed to give the most promising carbon removal solutions a pathway to scale."
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9. Not Boring Founders: @aloktayi @vibe_bio
"a community of patients, scientists, and partners committed to identifying, funding and developing promising treatments to rare diseases and empowering patient communities with unprecedented ownership..."
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10. Greatness Without Goals - @patrick_oshag w/ @kenneth0stanley on @InvestLikeBest
"I think that to stay on the cutting edge of anything, it requires continually refining your sense of interestingness."
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