Things I Read - Week 10'25 & 11'25

Articles

• For Less Anxiety and More Life, Treat Your To-Do List Like a Diner Menu

• Apple Delays Siri Upgrades Indefinitely as AI Concerns Escalate

• Trumps No pain no gain

• Beijing to roll out AI courses for Kids to grow the sector

• Bitcoin sinks to a four year low over US economy

• Elon Musks Disruption Playbook

• Amazon Pitches Alexa AI to Enhance Customers’ Loyalty to Prime

  • Alexa+, as the AI version is called, will cost $19.99 a month

  • Alphabet Inc.’s Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft Corp. offer AI services aimed at power users that have been on the market for more than a year. They cost $20 a month, which appears to be the magic number for multipurpose generative AI tools.

  • Almost 9 of 10 Echo owners are already Prime members, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. But among Prime subscribers, only 30% own an Echo device. That’s Alexa’s target market: Amazon superfans

• Are we entering a bear market?

  • The US has $9.2 Trillion in debt that they need to pay off or refinance in 2025 and about 70% of it is front loaded to the first half of the year

• Navigating the Economy Amid Deliberate Policy Uncertainty

Books

• Algebra of Wealth - Scott Gallaway

• The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch