2025-05-04
Where have all the tokens gone?
Published on May 4, 2025 1:52 PM GMTIn 2001, Lant Pritchett asked, “Where has all the education gone?” From 1960 to 1990, countries around the world had achieved increases in...
China Unveils Its Military Mega-Project: J-35B Fighter Might Be Flying From Aircraft Carrier
Key Points: Reports surfaced in late April claiming China’s Shenyang J-35B carrier-capable stealth fighter successfully performed its first electromagnetic catapult (EMALS) launch from the aircraft carrier Fujian (CV-18) in late...
Forget the J-50 and F-35 Fighter: Stunning Breakthrough Means Space Dogfights
Key Points: China is actively practicing “satellite dogfighting,” maneuvering spacecraft near others, indicating sophisticated counterspace capabilities aimed at dominating the domain, according to US Space Force leadership. -These tactics, combined...
Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works
The CEO of one of the world's leading artificial intelligence labs just said the quiet part out loud — that nobody really knows how AI works. In an essay published...
Product Discovery Mistakes, Agile Leadership, Taylorism to Product Mindset — Hands-on Agile 2025
TL; DR: David Pereira, Cliff Berg, and Jonathan Odo speaking at Hands-on Agile 2025 The second batch of videos of Hands-On Agile 2025 is in, and you don’t want to...
The Mach 6 Miracle SR-72 Darkstar Has a Message for Russia or China
Key Points: Speculation continues regarding a hypersonic successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, often called SR-72 “Son of Blackbird,” potentially capable of Mach 6+ speeds for ISR and strike missions. -Hints...
JAS 39 Gripen Could Solve Canada’s F-35 Fighter Saga
The Saab Gripen entered trials in Canada back in 2019 where Sweden proposed to sell the aircraft to the RCAF. In competitions, the Gripen finished second only to the F-35...
F-47 6th-Generation Fighter Will Soon Have New Competition (Not from China or Russia)
Key Points: South Korea is pursuing a sixth-generation fighter program, aiming for deployment around 2035 to counter North Korean threats, including nuclear weapons. Hanwha Aerospace unveiled a concept featuring a...
Canada Has a Message for the F-35 That Solves the Fighter Problem
How To Solve the F-35 Canada Problem: Amid political friction with the US, Canada’s Prime Minister Carney is reviewing the nation’s F-35 fighter deal. One potential outcome explored is a...
Project Says It's Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?
Traditional animal skin leathers? Those are dinosaurs. Enter "leather" made from the lab-grown skin of a T-Rex, which a group of companies and bioresearchers say they'll use to fashion luxury,...
Star-trekking sandbox roguelike Approaching Infinity launches after more than 12 years in development
Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse.
How I Wrote 3 of My Biggest LinkedIn Posts - And The New Trio (PM-PMM-Growth)
We're sitting down with long-time friend Aatir Abdul Rauf to cover 3 of our favorite LinkedIn posts of each other's. You'll get to hear--and see--the behind the scenes of our...
Houthis Might Get Russian Mach 2.2 Missile That Could Sink Navy Aircraft Carrier
Key Points: An F/A-18E Super Hornet plunged into the Red Sea from the USS Harry S. Truman on April 28th, lost overboard during towing after the carrier executed sharp evasive...
K2 Black Panther Tank Has a Message for the Russian Army
Key Points: South Korea’s K2 Black Panther stands as one of the world’s most advanced main battle tanks, featuring powerful armament, robust composite armor, high mobility, and network-centric capabilities, albeit...
SR-72 Darkstar Has a Message for Every Air Force On Earth
Key Points: The US maintains deep secrecy around its SR-72 “Darkstar” hypersonic aircraft program, unlike China’s public showcasing of new military prototypes. -This classified approach protects the advanced technologies enabling...
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
*Scott Wu* is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind Devin—the world’s first autonomous AI software engineer. Unlike other AI coding tools, Devin works like an autonomous engineer...
Scientists Direct Cyborg Cicadas to Play a Horrendous Droning Rendition of "Pachelbel's Canon"
Pachelbel's "Canon in D" is like the Doom of the music world. It's been performed on everything from train horns to rubber chickens to strange juggling bells — it would...
Sunday Rewind: Storytelling: Don’t convince; Inspire by Petra Wille
This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2023 ProductTank Perth talk by coach and author Petra Wille, in which she highlights the importance of storytelling and actionable strategies to present stories...
[X] Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility (Bitcoin Black Paper)
Link to Paper – arxiv.org/pdf/2106.14204 The post [X] Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility (Bitcoin Black Paper) appeared first on Nassim Taleb.
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