My January 2025 best business reads roundup
/AI & The Future of Work
DeepSeek: everything you need to know right now – Azeem Azhar, Exponential View
My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends – Simon Willison
Will We See the First Programmable Organisations In 2025? – Lee Bryant, Shift Academy
/Tech & Business Shifts:
Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time – Ali Behrouz, Peilin Zhong, Vahab Mirrokni
Back to Text: How AI Might Reverse Web Design – Tomasz Tunguz
Who is the Internet for? – Christopher Butler
/Media, Culture & AI Takeover:
Why Netflix and Spotify don’t seem to care if we are paying attention – Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian
Casual Viewing. Why Netflix looks like that, – Will Tavlin, N+1 Magazine
/Bonus read: A contrarian take on Los Angeles wildfires—blending history, science, a touch of Marxist critique, and a flair for provocation. It makes a bold case for why fire has always been, and will always be, part of Southern California’s ecology. Oh, and it was written in 1998:
The Case for Letting Malibu Burn – Mike Davis
Originally shared as a LinkedIn post. Check it out here.
