This is a bit late today, but I hope you had a good tax day and Easter!
What I’m looking forward to next weekend
I’m excited to be hosting a panel on AI next Saturday at TEDxSingaporeLive where I’ll talk to Asankhaya Sharma, Cofounder and CTO at Patched, and Fatin Sharafana on of the developers of Project Prime Play which recently won the Huawei Tech4City Competition. This event will showcase some of the TED 2025 Humanity Reimagined talks which just wrapped up in Vancover. We’ll get to hear from Sam Altman, Richard Dawkins, and more. In addition to these amazing talks we will also have several live panels, including the one I’m moderating. As someone who is very interested and hopeful for the future of AI, but isn’t technical at all, I’m looking forward to talking with these experts and getting their opinion on how AI will affect the future of humanity. If you’re in Singapore, you can get your ticket here: https://tedxsingaporelive.peatix.com/
What I read this week
Like most people, I enjoy watching films, but have never been obsessed enough to call myself a cinephile. This week I read Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino. I enjoy his work, even if I’m not a diehard fan. The amazing thing to me was being able to get a glimpse into how much he loves films. He couldn’t have been anything other than a screenplay writer and director. He’s the nerdiest of the nerdy about cinema, the history, the inside stories, and this book gives an amazing peek inside of his brain. I probably have only seen 10% of the movies that he mentions, most of which were from the 60s and 70s, but the way he talks about them makes me either feel like I’ve seen them or want to go watch them immediately.
What I’m thinking after visiting preschools this week
We’re moving soon, and so we visited a bunch of preschools recently to decide where we should put my daughter. Frankly, we aren’t too thrilled with her current school, so it’s a good thing. Personally, I was homeschooled up until 4th grade, and off and on again after that, so the whole preschool thing is new to me. I feel guiltly about sending her off at such a young age, but the reality is, with both my wife and I working, we don’t have a choice. I try to tell myself that it is good for her to socialize and be around other kids and adults, but I still am having a hard time convincing myself. I think we grew up in a different world where it was much more feasible to have one parent stay at home, but these days not only is it hard to survive on one salary, it’s also important for both parents to have the opportunity to pursue the career they want. It makes me have so much respect and admiration for couples who have made the decision to have one parent stay at home. A few months ago I had a stay-at-home dad, Laurence Chinery, on my podcast. If you haven’t listened yet, it is a great episode where we dug in deep on his reasons for choosing to take some years off of work to be with his kids.
What I watched this week
I’ve been trying to find my next show to watch after binging Yellowstone, so I started watching Billions. While it was fun watching the guy from Sideways (sorry, I know Paul Giamatti is much more than that) and Major Winters (again sorry) battle it out, I just couldn’t get into the show. Maybe it is one of those series that’s supposed to be like that, where no one is likeable. But I made myself keep watching into the first few episodes of the second season, but I think I’m done. Maybe it is due to everything going on right now, but hedge fund managers and government officials aren’t really the people I’m interested in watching stories about. If you have any good recommendations of something else to watch, please let me know!
Have a great week!