Stop, Think, and Make Big Life Decisions With AI

Hello, and happy Sunday! In a perfect world, all venture capitalists get along, no one has any beefs, founders are treated with love and respect and not like—oh, look, it's an American bald eagle swooping over the Parisian night sky. Let's just watch the Olympics and get off X.

On to everything we published this week, along with our take on the latest tech and business news.—Kate Lee

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Knowledge base

🔏 "Why AIs Need to Stop and Think Before They Answer" by Michael Taylor/Also True for Humans: If your AI assistant sometimes gives you nonsense output, it's because it has the very human problem of not taking time to think. Chain of thought prompting is like giving ChatGPT a coffee break before it answers your questions. Read this to learn how to make AI slow down and reason through problems, just like humans do. 

🎧 "Dwarkesh Patel's Quest to Learn Everything" by Dan Shipper/Chain of Thought: Ever wonder how the smartest podcaster we know preps for interviews with Mark Zuckerberg and Tony Blair? Dwarkesh Patel, host of the Dwarkesh Podcast, is using AI to revolutionize how he reads, learns, and builds a coherent worldview. Watch or listen to this episode of AI & I to see how Dwarkesh uses Claude to become a walking encyclopedia, prep for interviews, and compound his intelligence. 🔏 Paid subscribers have access to the episode transcript.

"AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions" by Dan Shipper/Chain of Thought: If you ever wished you had a crystal ball for those big, life-altering choices, Dan has the next best thing: AI. By feeding your thoughts and personality into ChatGPT, you can simulate how future-you might feel about major decisions. Read this if you want to peek through one-way doors without getting stuck on the other side. 🔏 Paid subscribers get access to Dan's actual journal entries and the exact chat that Dan had with Claude to build Every's new prompt tool, Spiral.

"Vibes Are a Legitimate Economic Indicator" by Evan Armstrong/Napkin Math: Kyla Scanlon, the 27-year-old internet economics sensation, argues that "vibes" are the new way to predict market trends. Her debut book, In This Economy?, attempts to explain modern economics to Gen Z, but it's her concept of "vibes" as collective digital-age feelings that steals the show. Read this if you want to understand how the TikTok generation views the economy and why your gut feelings about the market might actually be worth something.