Top Five Tech

All right, I'm starting something new every Friday.

I want to share my top five tech things of the week.

Something to watch, listen to, read, download,

and maybe a deep tech thought for the week as well.

If you want it in your inbox, you can scan this QR code

and it'll be a newsletter style,

just the five things every Friday.

And I'm going to have it here on YouTube

at least for a while and also as an audio podcast.

And so you can find those links down below

and just wanted to share stuff really quick every Friday.

So here we go.

Number one, to watch.

Check out this video from Hank Green.

on his channel talking about Mythos AI.

That's the model that Anthropic recently announced and it's not even giving to the public, it's

only giving to certain companies, and it's an AI model that finds vulnerabilities.

It's even found vulnerabilities that have been sitting dormant for a long time.

He's joined by cybersecurity expert Sherry Davidoff, and it was a great interview.

Link below.

Number two, something to listen to.

You have to hear this version history episode, I believe it was their season finale on the

Western Electric 500, but it was also about the whole AT&T monopoly.

They went back all the way to the 1800s to now.

It's a great listen.

And there's also a portion in the middle that, even on just audio, is really fun.

But they basically get a masterclass in how these old phones used to work,

the physical bell that's inside, why it sounded so amazing.

It's an awesome listen and a watch if you want to see it on YouTube.

Links to both of those down below.

Number three is something to read.

This profile on Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI,

it is almost a book length, so take some time to actually read it.

Also, an absolutely horrifying GIF here at the top of the header.

I'll put a link to it in Apple News.

And if you're an Apple News+ or Apple One subscriber,

the whole article, you don't have to pay extra for the New Yorker.

And it is a very interesting look at Sam Altman.

Now, Jason and I talk about Sam Altman at length

on this week's Primary Technology episode.

I'll link that below as well.

But he's a very influential and powerful guy,

especially in the world of AI and in technology at large right now.

And this profile by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz, very revealing.

Number four, something to download.

I've mentioned this app in a past video, but now that I'm preparing links

and trying to keep track of things for this weekly mini show,

Capture app I have started.

Not only is the app beautifully designed, it keeps track of all your links, and when you save them, you can just tap it and it will load it to the original place where you saved it from.

Whether that's a website, a YouTube video, you can actually just capture plain text and even voice notes if you want to do that.

You can separate things into lists, so like I have my top 5 list right here, and it works right from the share sheet on all your devices.

So if I wanted to save a video here, I just tap the Capture app, and I love that I can tap Add to List right here on the splash screen,

screen, and immediately add it to my top five list or another

one goes away quickly. And then everything I saved is available

on all my Apple devices. I can go here and see what I saved. It

is free to try and download. It's $20 lifetime. So if you

just want to pay once and have access forever, that's what I

did. You don't have to pay an ongoing subscription, or you

can pay $10 a year or $2 monthly. Honestly, that $20

lifetime, I think it's a great deal. There's lots of great

apps out there like raindrop and just the built in reading list

for saving things. But I love the design, the speed and

captures available literally everywhere, even on your Apple

Apple Watch.

And yes, even Apple Vision Pro.

And for number five, I want to throw in some kind of deep thought about technology and

I listened to the latest episode of Reconcilable Differences.

I actually have the full member feed and the topic they talk about in their bonus segment

is just for paying members, but it covers this Medium article that talks about I deleted

my second brain by Joan Westenberg.

In that Medium article, Joan talks about how she deleted all the thousands of notes and

everything she saved from Apple Notes and Notion, deleted everything and just started

from scratch.

I have over 4,000 notes in bare right now, plus things in Apple Notes and other things

in Notion.

There's this idea that it's tempting to almost start from a blank slate, just delete everything

and start again.

But as Merlin and John talk about in this bonus episode, you're going to have to start

again like you're going to start keeping track of things and creating more notes.

And so maybe the issue is not just the history and the things that you've maybe hoarded or

kept for too long.

Maybe it's just the actual systems you have in place and what you're trying to save.

I'm not doing as good a job as they did, and it really helped me start evaluating.

What am I saving? What am I using to capture?

And am I actually using all the information and notes that I've captured over

many years effectively?

Is it worthwhile to have and to keep trying to capture more stuff? Anyway,

it was an awesome conversation. It was really deep, made me think.

It was from their Burger Boy episode,

and I will link Reconcilable Differences down in the show notes as well.

That's my first top five tech of the week.

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and it'll just be delivered every Friday. My favorite links of the week,

something to watch, listen to, download, read,

and something a little deep as well.

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Thanks so much for watching and listening. I'll catch you next time.