> From there, he moves into the book’s finest passages, about feeling. Feeling, Pollan convincingly argues, actually precedes computation as a necessary condition of consciousness.
> The index effectively shifts weight toward "secular safety" and cyclical sectors that are less directly impacted by AI spending cycles. Major holdings in the SPXXAI index include leaders from the following sectors:
Financials: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), and Visa (V).
Healthcare: Eli Lilly (LLY), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).
Consumer Staples: Walmart (WMT), Procter & Gamble (PG), and Costco (COST).
Energy & Materials: Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), and Linde (LIN).
Utilities & Real Estate: Companies like NextEra Energy (NEE) and American Tower (AMT).
Actually this is the best advice I've heard to not being boring yourself. If you are earnestly interested in the other person's interests, wants, dreams, what have you, they will find you interesting.
This post is slightly different about not being bland/non-weird, which is another thing--be yourself out loud.
I know I do edit what I say to new people that I meet, because they probably actually aren't interested in my several deep but narrow interests--I can tell by my Youtube feed. I am unapologetically weird and totally fine with progressive disclosure. I suppose if we have common interests but they act similarly it would be a missed opportunity--I should give more signals, the equivalent of wearing my fave band T-shirt, like mentioning things regularly in casual small talk.
If anything I've edited my own life down for simplicity and focus: family, friends, some aspects of work, and a handful of lasting interests. If you don't care what other people think, a lot of things just become unimportant.
I don't think I'd want to pay that much since my personal use is limited and not serious/important. Employer pays for work usage.
I'm curious why do you keep many subscriptions around? Asking because I do too though don't have a good reason to keep anything other than Anthropic/Claude.
When I can't run Sequoia on my personal Macs anymore, I'll be done with macOS.
I'll keep using the latest for the work provided laptop. For my next job, being able to use Linux will be a definite plus.
For most other software so, Linux is the 'better Windows' in many cases. I'll keep another with stripped-down Windows 10 around for other software for as long as it gets updates.
Wonder why they didn't pick a better name--probably constrained to start with a 'V' for continuity. I think "Laqer" would have been better as a high quality transparent layer vs something used to cover fiberboard. The latter also makes sense though, to improve the performance of a crappy implementation.
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