August 6, 2025: Different Kinds of Smart

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Different Kinds of Smart
by Morgan Housel (5 mins)

• Summary: “Different Kinds of Smart” shows that raw IQ isn’t enough; real-world success depends on harder-to-measure abilities—cross-disciplinary curiosity, a balance of boldness and paranoia, persuasive storytelling, humility, and skillful delayed gratification—illustrated by Long-Term Capital Management’s spectacular failure.
• Ideal for: Investors, founders, managers, students, and anyone who makes high-stakes decisions and wants to broaden their mental toolkit beyond traditional book smarts.
• Why It’s Worth Your Time: Offers a memorable cautionary tale plus concrete mental models to spot blind spots, protect against ruin, and cultivate the diverse intelligences that drive lasting success.

Is RRF the Secret to Dominating AI Citations? I Decoded ChatGPT’s Ranking Formula
by Metehan Yesilyurt (6 mins)

• Summary: ChatGPT’s code reveals it blends results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF)—summing scores from many related queries—which mathematically favors pages (and entire topic clusters) that show up across multiple search variations rather than single-keyword wins.
• Ideal for: SEO strategists, content marketers, and anyone creating AI-search-optimized content who wants to understand why topical authority beats narrow ranking tactics.
• Why It’s Worth Your Time: Grasping RRF equips you to map full query spaces, build hub-and-spoke clusters, and track holistic coverage—actionable moves that can multiply visibility 10-60× in AI-driven search results.

The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
by a16z (47 mins)

• Summary: Large-scale AI models are emerging as a fourth infrastructure pillar (alongside compute, networking, and storage), reshaping how software is built: programming shifts from deterministic code to “context engineering,” low-/no-code gains new super-powers, and every layer of the stack must adapt to new latency, data-pipeline, and architectural demands.
• Ideal for: Software engineers, infra founders, tech investors, and anyone tracking how AI is upending developer tools, cloud economics, and product strategy.
• Why It’s Worth Your Time: Reveals where value will accrue in the current “expansion phase,” how coding agents already boost productivity, and why talent demand grows (not shrinks) as AI spreads—actionable insight for deciding what to build, back, or learn next.

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• 🟥 Glasp Talk with Yohei Nakajima:
  Glasp Talk features intimate interviews with luminaries who reveal their emotions, experiences, and stories. The guest, Yohei Nakajima, is General Partner at Untapped Capital and the visionary creator of BabyAGI. This autonomous agent framework sparked global attention in the AI community and was featured at TED AI.

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