With this sixtieth edition of The Itinerant Weekly I will be pausing publication for 2-3 weeks. During this time, I will be updating and refining the project roadmap and content, working towards some level of process automation, and exploring avenues to free up more time for original content creation. Stay tuned!

Let’s be honest, we can all use strategies to be more creative. If that’s you – watch this video with Tim Ferris. Warning, it’s a bit long. But its worth it.

If you only have 5 minutes this week, watch this video where Warren Buffet explains his thinking about why obsessing too much over valuation isn’t a good idea.

If you only have 5 minutes this week, read this HBR article about strategy. It’s an excellent reminder that applies to anyone considering doing anything.  

If you only have 10 minutes this week, read this article about the increasing prevalence of the “Contract Executive.”  It’s the latest indicator of the ‘decentralized’ future of work I’ve been writing about for years.

If you only have 30 minutes this week, watch (at 2.0x) this video about whether free will is an illusion and why it would matter.

If you only have 30 minutes this week, watch (at 2.0x) Lex and pmarca talk (about the future of AI in this video.

you only have 10 minutes this week, watch this video from World Science Foundation about how one scientist recently challenged everything we thought we knew about our human origins. 

If you only have 10 minutes this week, play around with RunwayML, a new text-to-video LLM model.