Stuff Worth Sharing
AI conquers politics: an AI was designed to engineer endowment distribution strategies that could be ratified with real human players. It was successful in making the most democratically optimal solution.
Next gen tragedy of the commons: space debris (IMO) is one of the most interesting free rider problems in tech with no solution in sight.
Games investing: long form interview with one of world’s best games investor (podcast).
Bring back (bio)plastic straws: I’ve been doing a lot of research into climate-tech and went really deep on this area a few weeks ago. This was a favorite.
Shaming Picasso: friend and fellow EF Mafia, Sam Barnett, attempts to break the icon’s record for portraits painted.
How are chips born? : very approachable overview of the semiconductor market. What are the steps, who are the players and how did we build the world’s most complex product.
~7 hours of VC (Part 1; Part 2): 6 hours of deep dive (two episodes) into Benchmark Capital. I don’t know who would dedicate this much listening time if you’re not a VC, but if you are this was amazing. (podcast)
Shameless Plug
Excited to see Fly portfolio company, InfinyOn, finally announce their $5M seed round. Real-time stream processing represents a new evolution in the data market. It enables proactive systems, real time applications and ultimately less complex systems for. InfinyOn brings intelligent processing to streaming through a very modern, cloud native system that ultra light & performant and with processing built natively.
We (Fly) continue to gain conviction we're only witnessing the beginning of the disruption the modern data stack will bring across all industries. If you, or someone you know, is working against this please reach out.
Tuesday Job Drop
Every week I share cool new job postings from early stage startups I know. Find the jobs board here. Last week I added:
Platform Engineer (Ophelos)
Senior Full Stack Engineer (Ophelos)
Product Designer (Ophelos)
Asks
I’m starting a mini-deep dive into the opportunities surrounding carbon credits and the infrastructure required. If you have read / seen / heard anything great on the topic please shoot me a note.