Top 5 Things of the Week Ended 3/26/23

Interesting Reads, Listens and Links That You May Have Missed

1. One of the best things I’ve read about the advances in AI. Short summary: software and software engineering could soon be massively disrupted:

Society's Technical Debt and Software's Gutenberg Moment

2. This is a eye-opening article on how Chinese nationals have moved into illegal cannabis: Much is still unknown about Chinese-funded cannabis cultivation — including whether the money is coming from groups with connections to the Communist Party, and how much of the cannabis produced through Chinese-funded grows stays within the U.S. or leaves the country. It’s also not clear how deeply involved Chinese organized crime syndicates are in American cannabis cultivation.

3. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra took to Twitter to comment on the status of the rescheduling/de-scheduling process the Biden Administration is undergoing on cannabis and said this:

Secretary Xavier Becerra @SecBecerra

I see the comments and I know a lot of you are asking about the status of marijuana 👀 I hear you, and just know that we are trying to work quickly but still have a few hoops we need to jump through. As always, the science will guide this decision. More from what I told @KDKA:

4. Tobacco giant, Altria (NYSE: MO) said they are exploring entering the cannabis space. They had previously invested in the space, but never directly offered products before.

5. This is an amazing podcast about David Senra first studying Charlie Munger and then having dinner with him for three hours:

Colossus @joincolossus

David (@FoundersPodcast) had dinner with Charlie Munger and the resulting podcast is predictably brilliant.

pod.linkFoundersLearn from history’s greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work. This quote explains why:

Comedy:

Alex Rampell @arampell

Young people: this is what you have to look forward to (somebody should amend this for 40s)