News

Amazon:
- Video on how Amazon makes one-day shipping the new norm
  - Amazon is increasingly relying on its own logistics network as opposed to UPS or US Postal Service to deliver packages either long-range (Amazon Air) or last-mile (Amazon Flex)
  - Combination of robots and workers in fulfillment centers
  - Tech innovation for delivery: drones, robots, etc.
- Amazon Prime Day strike: indicative of Amazon’s ongoing issue with dangerous working conditions and impossible standards for warehouse workers.
  - See related: John Oliver’s LWT episode
- Amazon plans to upskill 100k US employees for in-demand jobs by 2025 - link
Trump tweets at POC Dem. congresswomen: “go back to where you came from”
- Long history of nativist sentiment as exemplified by Trump tweets
  - ”‘Go home’ rhetoric has peaked during periods of heightened immigration… yet it’s also been during such times that public opinion has grown more accepting of the latest newcomers to the country.”
Elon’s presentation on Neuralink
- What it is: neurotech company developing implantable human-brain interface that aims to treat serious brain diseases (short term) and achieve “symbiosis with AI” (long term) to combat looming AI threat (at least in Elon’s view)
- Trials on humans planned for 2020 😲
50th Anniversary of Moon Landing

Big ideas

Habits vs Goals
- TLDR: goal setting and achieving is good mindset to adopt but creating and maintaining long-term habits is more sustainable
TEDx: How drawing helps you think
- We tend to draw what we know not what we see. Trick to combat this: instead of drawing the object, focus on the spaces betweent the object
- Drawings don’t have to be art; if they help us to think and connect with others, they are good enough
- Drawing exercises for beginners
Today’s influencers = tomorrow’s politicians?
- Despite my skepticism of influencer lifestyle compared to “nerd” lifestyle (mentioned in last week’s digest), it seems it does have its benefits
  - “The way to think of influencers or creators is as entrepreneurs… These people are setting up businesses, hiring staff, managing budgets. These are massively transferable skills.”
- Different strokes for different folks 🤷‍♂️

MOOC: Coursera Deep Learning Specialization courses
- Done with course 5 (Sequence Models)
Technical blog post: word2vec algorithm
Recreational reading:
- Deep Work by Cal Newport (24%)
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari (16%)
- The Three-body Problem by Liu Cixin (9%)
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (10%)