Shifting responsibility to the individual Update: During the summer (and maybe longer?) this newsletter will be going to an every-other-week schedule. Last week, much of the United States experienced a massive heatwave, complete with intensely high humidity. Record high temperatures were broken in places as far apart as Louisiana (the U.S. deep South), and Wisconsin (northern Midwest near the Great Lakes). On top of that, the strained power grid led to extended blackouts in Philadelphia from...

Everything is topsy-turvy I feel like there's a bit of repetition in the newsletter of late. That's because I keep getting emails and DMs asking me about what I'm doing and how to navigate everything given... well, everything. Now, did I write an entire newsletter just to use the phrase "topsy-turvy?" Maybe. It feels a lot more playful than the onslaught of emails that have flooding my inbox talking about climate disasters, underfunding of government agencies, economic uncertainty, health...

A model of restraint Is this the fourth time I've rewritten this just this week? Yep. Everything is moving fast and breaking my newsletter But I'm hoping that this will be an evergreen analogy. Recently, lots of people have been talking about how micro LLMs are the answer to anyone's concerns about LLM/genAI resource overconsumption. Because they're still cool toys like the big models, but they use less of everything. So isn't that a good thing? Maybe? I'm going to use excerpts from my side...