Sara’s Weekly Update #15

Welcome to my newsletter! I write down my thoughts & opinions on the topics I read/watch in the last week. My topics of interests are wide, please feel free to skip to the topic you like.

Fox Will Pay $787.5 Million to Settle Defamation Suit

“The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” Justin Nelson, a lawyer for Dominion, said outside Delaware Superior Court on Tuesday.

I do feel bad when media’s keep lying and causes so much unrest in the society. But they were not held accountable, as they hide behind “freedom of speech”. Fox’s settlement & things uncovered so far in the case are crystal clear on how some of these media just say what we want to hear but not the factual truth. Hope this expense makes the media companies to at least try to say facts.

The settlement spares Fox a trial that would have gone on for weeks and put many of the company’s most prominent figures — from the media mogul Rupert Murdoch to hosts like Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo — on the stand.

I wish they didn’t reach this settlement and went for a full trial to uncover more truth.

Kudos to Dominion Leadership for taking on this challenge & fight for the truth.

Starship Test Launch

Inspiring to see this great progress! Though it didn’t reach orbit, it a huge progress and I confident next iteration will be better than this rocket.

Jensen Describes AI’s Potential Impacts in Podcast Hosted by World’s Largest Investment Fund

Some of the problems are too complex for humans to solve now. Jensen said that the GPU chip R&D is ~$5 billion, it’s somewhat closer to making a rocket. To optimise these billion transistors on a palm size chip is a complex task and he gave an analogy to visualise the size of the problem, imagine a city 1000 times bigger than new york city and imaging if we have to decide where to build roads, offices, houses, retails, etc for such a big city, that's how complex the modern chip design is. And it cannot be done by humans alone, we need help from AI’s to design these.

And Jensen spoke about how he relaxes, and he said work is the relaxation, and he is relaxed almost all the time. He goes to bed around 9.30, says sleep is important for him & wakes up around 5, and starts working from the moment he wakes up. He’s the longest running tech CEO, and he says he's going to continue to do that for the foreseeable future! I have huge respect for guys like him, who have everything and are still contributing to society in a very meaningful way.

You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You?

This blog highlights some theories on why we are not able to live closer to friends.

Over-scheduled calendar culture dooms us. When you live in the city or a suburb, it’s not enough to live kinda close, you’ve got to live SUPER CLOSE.

I completely agree on this. We are super busy these days, more closer the friends are located, chances for impromptu meetings are more. This is one of the reasons we moved to TX form MN. And we can see this happening already in a month we moved to TX. We bump into friends while picking kids from bus stop, kids do sleep over just across our home & in next street. These didn’t happen easily when friends were located further apart, we had to plan for it ahead.

You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard

“Researchers also find that when we develop groups, our friendships are more sustainable than they are with individuals. Because there's multiple touch points now, right? Someone else in the group could reach out to all of us, and then we all keep in touch,” she notes.

This is so true. When we are part of a whatsapp group, someone or other initiates a conversion and makes the whole group active. Being in a group does seem like a good idea to form friends as adults.

Apple's First Store In India Opens In Mumbai

Governments relaxation on the regulations & the growth in India makes Apple to open stores in India. Apple opened its first store in China in 2008, and the growth of China in the last decade is tremendous. We can take Apple as proxy for a countries growth. Hopefully we will tremendous growth in India in coming decades.

Personal Update

Wife had to travel to MN for a week for work. Somehow we survived for a week without mommy, by end of the week we all missed her. Went for a Costco shopping one of the evening and finished our dinner there.