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Regulations

The EU AI Act

European Union · regulation, in force 2024-27

The first broad AI law sorts systems by risk: a few uses banned outright, high-risk uses carry heavy obligations, and general-purpose models owe transparency. It phases in through 2027, and fines reach 7% of global revenue.

144 pg40 sec1 Jan
Speeches

We Choose to Go to the Moon

John F. Kennedy · Rice University, 1962

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. A hard, public, dated goal organizes and measures a nation's energy. Commit, fund it, and move.

18 min25 sec31 Dec
History

The Federalist No. 10

James Madison · essay, 1787

Factions are inevitable because liberty produces them, so a constitution must control their effects rather than remove their causes. Madison's answer: a large republic, where representation and sheer scale make it hard for any faction to capture the whole.

15 min30 sec30 Dec
Classics

The Art of War

Sun Tzu · treatise, ~5th century BC

The supreme excellence is winning without fighting. Know yourself and your opponent, prefer positioning and deception to brute force, adapt to the ground you are on, and never fight a long war.

2 hrs30 sec29 Dec
Classics

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius · private notes, ~170 AD

The private notebook of a Roman emperor practicing Stoicism on himself. You control your judgments, never events; obstacles are material for character; you will die, so spend attention accordingly; and other people's opinions are not your business.

6 hrs30 sec28 Dec
Founders' essays

Default Alive or Default Dead?

Paul Graham · essay, 2015

One question determines a startup's strategy: at current growth and spending, do you reach profitability before the money runs out? Most founders cannot answer it, and the ones who ask too late meet the fatal pinch: default dead, plus investors who no longer want to help.

5 min25 sec27 Dec
Founders' letters

An Owner's Manual

Warren Buffett · Berkshire Hathaway, 1996

Buffett's booklet of owner-related business principles: shareholders are owner-partners, management eats its own cooking, performance is measured by per-share intrinsic value, debt is used sparingly, and results are reported with the same candor Buffett would want as a silent partner.

30 min35 sec26 Dec
Founders' letters

The 1997 Amazon Shareholder Letter

Jeff Bezos · Amazon, 1997

It's all about the long term, and it is still Day 1. Optimize for market leadership over quarterly optics, obsess over customers rather than competitors, make bold bets, and stay frugal. Amazon reattaches this letter to every annual report since.

12 min30 sec25 Dec
Founders' essays

Do Things That Don't Scale

Paul Graham · essay, 2013

Startups do not take off by themselves; the founders push, by hand. Recruit users one at a time, deliver service that cannot possibly scale yet, and treat the unscalable work as the education that produces the growth that eventually does scale.

15 min30 sec24 Dec

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