#9: Time Billionaires, AlphaFold & scented candles
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Hope youâre all doing well. Welcome to the ninth issue of my newsletter, in which I share the cool links I came across.
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Articles Iâve loved
A Billion Seconds or a Billion Dollars? (2 min)
1 million seconds = 12 days, 1 billion seconds = 31 years
âThe time billionaires are the wealthiest among us, yet they fail to recognize the wealth that they enjoy,â Pomp writes.
AlphaFold: a solution a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology - DeepMind (8 min)
DeepMind, which you might know from AlphaGo, has made significant progress with AlphaFold in the protein folding problem. This Morning Brew article has a concise ELI5 summary:
If you can predict a proteinâs shape, then you can essentially predict its function. Since research suggests many diseasesâAlzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, cancerâare influenced by incorrect protein folding, this breakthrough is a really big deal for disease research and drug discovery.Â
My Million Dollar Domain Hobby (13 min)
Story from a hustler collecting automatically .io and .ai domain names and making $$$.
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Podcasts Iâve loved
Started to follow Daniel Ek (CEO of Spotify) since Iâve read the long-read interview from Observer Effect, and really like this episode with Tim Ferris!
Books Iâve read
Invent and Wander - Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos (ââââ)
This book consists of 3 parts:
intro by the famous Walter Isaacson (known from other memoirs such as Da Vinci, Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin)
letters to shareholders
anecdotal short chapters of 1-5 pages
Interesting if youâre into the history of Amazon / Bezos, although the book is a bit one-sided.
The Test - Sylvain Neuvel (ââââ)
If you like Black Mirror, youâll love this short (100p) read!
Thanks for your most valuable resources, your time and attention! Which article did you like the most? Let me know!
Until next time,
Matthias