UL NO. 437: My List of Hard-won Life Lessons

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world full of AI.

TOC

• NOTES

• MY WORK

• STORIES

• IDEAS

• DISCOVERY

• RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK

• APHORISM OF THE WEEK

NOTES

I’ll be delivering my AUGMENTED course live again on July 26th!

The theme of the course this time—and going forward—will be Moving Towards Human 3.0—How to Survive and Thrive in World Full of
AI. The course content will include:

HUMAN 3.0

• What I think is coming for us

• What I’m planning for and learning to get ready

• Human 3.0, why I think it’s necessary, and how to move towards
  it

SKILLSETS & MENTAL FRAMES

• Mandatory skillsets and mental frames to stand out after AI

• What to read, study, and learn to make money post-AI

• What advice to give to young people you care about

INTEGRATING AI INTO YOUR LIFE & WORK

• My personal AI stack, and how I use it every day

• How to build a life workflow diagram

• How to use Fabric to integrate AI into your life workflow

• How to create custom Fabric patterns for anything

• Live Pattern-building for multiple attendee use-cases

RESOURCES

• A list of my recommended books

• Recommended podcast episodes

• Recommended list of people to follow

• Favorite AI projects and tools

• Other recommended training / courses / resources

• And much more…

Reserve a Limited Slot for AUGMENTED JULY 2024

• My friend Monica is launching her Cybersecurity Leadership
  Masterclass soon! She’s covering a ton of stuff, including:

  • How to get into a leadership position

  • How to build a security strategy, how to handle budget, politics,
    and communication as a security leader, and like a dozen other
    topics.

  I’ve been watching the class develop and I can’t wait to see it launch.
  I highly recommend aspiring security leaders—or leaders who want to up
  their game—attend.
  SIGN UP FOR THE CLASS

—

• Trying to make sense of AI’s role in your security operations?
  You’re not alone.

  Join me and James Spiteri, Director of
  Product Management for Elastic Security, for a discussion on the
  benefits, risks, and considerations when implementing AI technology into
  your security stack.

  Tuesday, June 25th, 9 AM PDT
  REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR

—

• I’m doing a minor modification of header titles, going from
  SECURITY/TECH/HUMANS to NEWS/IDEAS/DISCOVERY. The rationale is that:
  For me, security, tech, and humans are merging so deeply that I see
  them as integrated.
  So I think it makes more sense to break things down by new things
  happening, ideas that I find fascinating, and surfacing cool
  apps/projects/etc. If we don’t like it, I can always go back to the
  previous way, but I think this is more natural.

Ok, let’s get to it…

MY WORK

A couple of new essays this week.

First, my new piece on how AI will soon start teaching us, testing us—and
scariest of all—rating us. And how these scores will start being used
everywhere…

ASTRA Scores: AI-Powered Assessment and Rating Systems

With AI, hiring, dating, and learning is about to get very strange.

danielmiessler.com/p/astra-scores-aipowered-assessment-rating-systems

And this is my new piece on how we’re replacing meaningful, slow things with
shallow fast things…

The Fast-Slow Problem

We’ve become so obsessed with fast pleasures that we can’t enjoy slow ones
anymore.

danielmiessler.com/p/the-fast-slow-problem

My list of hard-won life lessons. Expanded list from what you saw on
socials.

A List of My Hard-won Life Lessons

A list of things it took me a very long time to learn.

danielmiessler.com/p/list-hardwon-life-lessons

I would like to move more to a model where I support my work with
memberships, courses, and revenue from the apps that I build—rather than
sponsorships.

To help me realize this, I’d like to invite you to become a UL
member.

Here’s what you get:

• Entry into the best online community I’ve ever been a part of

• We’re voraciously curious, constantly reading, constantly learning,
  and we share what we learn with others. But most importantly, we’re kind. We’re a community of helping
  people become their best selves.

• An insanely great Book Club, which has been running for like 5 years
  straight!

• Additional monthly meetups where we share tools, routines, personal
  challenges, and lots of other stuff you can’t get anywhere else

• Significant discounts on my paid offerings

• Access to private UL events

• And more…

Honestly there are lots of benefits to being a member that make it worth
more than the price, but at basically $8/month the community is worth it just by itself.

Become a Member

Thank you. I truly appreciate your support of the work that I do.

-Daniel

STORIES

The House just passed a bill that bans DJI drones from using FCC
frequencies, and it’s now moving to the Senate. This could mean no more
DJI drones in the U.S. if it becomes law. Would be a trip to see this
happen before TikTok. | DRONEDJ

A disgruntled ex-employee cost NCS over $600,000 by deleting all 180 of its
test servers using scripts he found on Google. Deprovisioning gets so many
people. I honestly think IAM will take longer to solve than AGI. That and
A/V. |
TOMSHARDWARE 

I mean, there are lots of things that have to go wrong for this to
happen, but we’d be lying if we said it wasn’t possible in a lot of places
we’ve worked. Or still work.

Wells Fargo fired over a dozen employees for faking keyboard activity to
look busy. | by
Hannah Levitt
|
BLOOMBERG 

So happy to see this. Physical keys are great, but I’d prefer both
security and convenience. Passkeys have to be the best thing that’s
happened to consumer security in 10 years.

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AWS has added FIDO2 passkeys for MFA, making accounts more secure and
user-friendly. Root users must enable MFA by July 2024. |
BLEEPINGCOMPUTER 

New York Times source code was stolen using an exposed GitHub token. |
BLEEPINGCOMPUTER

iOS 18 will let you automatically record and transcribe your phone calls
through the Phone app. | by
Juli Clover |
MACRUMORS

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Canada’s proposed Online Harms Act could imprison people for life over hate
speech and even preemptively restrict their freedom based on anticipated
crimes. | by
Conor Friedersdorf
|
THE ATLANTIC 

LinkedIn is rolling out AI career coaches that can help with everything from
negotiating salaries to writing résumés. | by
Amanda Hoover |
WIRED 

See my essay above on rating systems. ASTRA SCORES ESSAY

AI and LLMs are transforming cyber insurance by making real-time risk
assessments, underwriting, and claims processing more efficient. | by
Louis Columbus |
VENTUREBEAT

Oh man, I haven’t done a piece on this yet, but AI is going to make all
insurance companies a lot smarter about real-time risk assessments and
pricing adjustments.

Scale came out with a “controversial” stance that they will hire on
merit and merit alone. It’s basically an anti-DEI statement, but not in a
bad way. They’re saying that it will actually lead to healthier diversity
than when it’s forced by woke policies. | by
Scale AI
|
SCALE 

Everyone anticipated massive backlash to this statement, but there’s been
very little. Which basically means the political pendulum has swung—or is
still swinging—away from extreme wokeness. I just hope the pendulum stops
in the middle rather than going into crazy town on the other side of this
clock metaphor.

Nathan Wade’s media consultant interrupted his CNN interview when he was
asked about his relationship timeline with Fulton County DA Fani Willis.
Wade said the relationship is a distraction and not relevant to the case. |
by
Lauren Sforza
|
THE HILL Consultant Interrupts
Interview Over Relationship Timeline

Tesla shareholders have backed Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package and
approved moving the firm’s legal HQ to Texas. The deal was previously
blocked by a Delaware judge for being unfair to shareholders. | by
João da Silva
and
Natalie Sherman
|
BBC Tesla Shareholders Approve
Musk’s $56B Pay Package

This feels very Atlas Shrugged
to me. Basically, give the actual builders anything they want. There are
few of them left and they’re special. I like the pro-builder sentiment
there, but I fear it comes with an unhealthy worship culture that breeds
toxicity.

Like, “Give Buck Rhinehold a harem! Buck deserves it!” (cheering)

I’d like to see a healthy hybrid of Atlassian respect for
founders/builders/creators, etc., but with the assumption that everyone should be like that, and thus, there’s no room for god-complexes.

Wow, what timing.

Elon Musk had sexual relationships with multiple SpaceX employees, including
a former intern he later hired onto his executive team, according to The
Wall Street Journal. Another woman alleged that Musk asked her to have his
children and then denied her a raise when she refused. | by
Elizabeth Lopatto |
THE VERGE 

This is so insane. I mean, I’m inspired by his willingness to just ask
for what he wants. There’s a version of that where it’s healthy. But, um, not with your fucking employees.

“Julie, great work on the Montague project. I admire you; you should have
my babies.” (not a real quote, obviously)

Like it’d be wrong even if nothing bad happened from it, because of the potential
for it go wrong. But if he’s actually doing what they’re saying here,
that’d be really bad. It’s not just making the proposition, but punishing
those who refuse.

This is why it’s not allowed, people!

California has the biggest wage gap in the US. Seems to me like just the
most extreme version of a big city. You’re going to have the higher highs
and the lower lows. | by
Tessa McLean
|
SFGATE 

We just broke ground on America’s first next-gen nuclear facility designed
by TerraPower. This plant is safer, cheaper, and more reliable than existing
ones, aiming to revolutionize power generation in the U.S. and globally. |
by
Bill Gates |
GATESNOTES 

China’s yuan is now Russia’s main foreign currency, replacing the dollar and
euro. |
UNN 

A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, but only
after it’s been exposed to UV light. | by
Annika Vaksmaa |
NIOZ 

Apple left out a lot of small updates at its WWDC keynote this year. Here
are some of the coolest ones: iPhone bezels now have animations, you can
type in Spanglish without toggling keyboards, and the flashlight app has new
animations. Plus, widgets are easier to resize, the Vision Pro shows your
keyboard in VR, and macOS Sequoia has nostalgic wallpapers. | by
Wes Davis |
THE VERGE 

Apple Vision Pro users can now watch House of the Dragon in an updated
immersive Iron Throne Room environment on the visionOS Max app. | by
Ryan Christoffel |
9TO5MAC 

Spatial Personas in visionOS 2 can now high five, fist bump, and touch
fingers with visual and audio feedback. | by
Tim Hardwick |
MACRUMORS 

Excited about this. One of the things I enjoy doing with my Vision Pro is
Facetime. And anything that makes it more natural is great.

Also can’t wait to try out the new dual-4K-monitor widescreen for working
virtually.

Sebg argues that Jupyter Notebooks are the fast food of
coding—convenient but often unhealthy for long-term projects.| by
yobibyte
|
YOBIBYTE 

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Caltech grads to pursue “zero-billion-dollar
markets,” which are markets with no current value but huge future potential.
He emphasized the importance of resilience and innovation, encouraging
graduates to see setbacks as opportunities for new directions. | by
Jowi Morales
|
Tom’s Hardware 

Just figured out what I love so much about Jensen. He’s like a nice Elon.
Not saying Elon isn’t also nice; I know he is. Just saying he’s often
not.

I love seeing—and having others see—that you can be a
murderer-ambitious-creative-person, and still be kind most of the
time.

Ro Arepally predicts that generative AI will actually increase the
demand for software engineers over the next 20 years, not decrease it. The
idea is that AI will make software engineering more accessible, similar to
how autopilot systems made flying more accessible, leading to more tech
companies and higher salaries for engineers. | by
Ro Arepally
|
ROAREPALLY 

The widely held view that sperm counts in men are dropping around the world
may be wrong, according to a new study by the University of Manchester,
Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and Cryos International, Denmark. |
by
UofMNews |
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER 

Curiositry argues that perfectionism is about optimizing at the wrong
scale, suggesting that focusing too much on perfecting small details can
lead to missing the bigger picture. | by
Curiositry
|
AUTODIDACTS 

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade
later. | by
Athena Chapekis
et al. |
PEWRESEARCH 

Derek Sivers explains why you should create a /now page on your website,
basically a page that tells people what you’re focused on right now. | by
Derek Sivers
|
SIVERS 

I had one of these way back in the 10’s. I’ll have one again soon, but
it’ll be in my personal API. Which will also show up on my site.  

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IDEAS

An X thread I posted about increased production of goods and services after
AI, and how it doesn’t make sense if 90% of people don’t have money to buy
the stuff…

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@DanielMiessler

There’s a critical problem with moving towards AGI and ASI in a way that
increasingly replaces human workers.

Who is going to buy all the stuff?

Sure—we’ll be able to make 1000X more stuff, but people won’t have
jobs—and therefore money—so who are we making all the stuff for?

 

3:56 PM • Jun 16, 2024

  

31 Likes  
6 Retweets  

15 Replies

Venkat Rao argues that in a world dominated by AI and robots, the key
to human survival isn’t being smarter but being more mediocre. He suggests
that mediocrity is an independent meta-trait crucial for evolutionary
fitness and long-term survival. | by
Venkatesh Rao
|
RIBBONFARM 

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DISCOVERY

Pop Culture’s Oligopoly: Why Everything Feels Like a Sequel EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY

Dream Machine — An AI model that makes high-quality, realistic videos fast
from text and images. | by
Luma Labs AI
|
Dream Machine

Nvidia Warp — A Python framework for high-performance GPU simulation and
graphics. | by
NVIDIA |
GITHUB 

The “Infinite Content Ideas Generator” — A 2-step AI prompt approach to
never run out of content ideas. | by
Moritz Kremb |
THEPROMPTWARRIOR 

You can now design and manufacture your own chip, and this video shows you
how. | by
Robert Feranec
|
YOUTUBE 

LLM Mojo – The project ports Andrej Karpathy’s llm.c to Mojo, leveraging
performance enhancements like vectorization and parallelization. | by
dorjeduck |
GITHUB

Ollama v0.1.45 — Enhanced GPU discovery and multi-GPU support with
concurrency. | by
Ollama Team |
GITHUB

SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. |
SQLITE 

Starlink Mini — A new portable Starlink dish designed for camping, RVs,
and other mobile uses. | by Starlink Hardware | STARLINKHARDWARE

Max Leiter has a simple but powerful tip: ship something every day. It
doesn’t have to be big, just something you can point to. | by
Max Leiter |
MAX LEITER BLOG 

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RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK

This week I recommend you check out my list of truths it took me a very long
time to learn.

MY LIST OF HARD-WON LIFE LESSONS

APHORISM OF THE WEEK

❝  

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their
minds to be good or evil.

  Hannah Arendt

I would like to move more to a model where I support my work with
memberships, courses, and revenue from the apps that I build—rather than
sponsorships.

To help me realize this, I’d like to invite you to become a UL
member.

Here’s what you get:

• Entry into the best online community I’ve ever been a part of.

• We’re voraciously curious, we’re constantly reading, constantly
  learning, and we share what we learn with others. But most importantly, we’re kind. We’re a community of helping
  people become their best selves.

• An insanely great Book Club, which has been running for like 5 years
  straight!

• Additional monthly meetups where we share tools, routines, personal
  challenges, and lots of other stuff you can’t get anywhere else

• Significant discounts on my paid offerings

• Access to private UL events

• And more…

Honestly there are lots of benefits to being a member that make it worth
more than the price, but at basically $8/month the community is worth it just by itself.

Become Part of Our UL Community

Thank you. I truly appreciate your support of the work that I do.

-Daniel