Welcome to my weekly letter, where I share a few noteworthy articles and my own commentary. Without further ado…
Weekly Read
- Why 40-Year-Old Millennials Are So Much Broker Than Their Parents (Fatherly) – if you match the description, this article is the painful reminder to pay all the bills/debts – from student loans, to housing expenses, to childcare expenses. Welcome to the 40s 😉 Oh, and you may want to read the next one.
- Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank (ProPublica) – all hopes are not lost! If you can put $1k into a Roth IRA, buy a ton of startup stock at $0.01 each, and if the stock went hyper growth, then you can cash them out tax free after age of 59. Mind there are a lot of if’s here 😉
- Watch the Navy’s Stingray Drone Refuel a Fighter in Midair for the First Time (Popular Mechanics) – perfect timing to get cool new things into the upcoming Top Gun movie! Tom Cruise is probably already on top and all over this 😀 Oh, apparently it’s already done in a ‘Top Gun’ game…
- Beyond the Meme: Ever Given, Supply Chains, and the Physical World (future.a16z.com) – the event of ‘Ever Given’ (AKA ‘that container boat that stuck sideways in Suez Canal’) gave the world a reality check on how frail our global logistic/infrastructure really is, and plenty of opportunities to improve. This post, along with an interview done by my favorite tech news (DTNS, behind the Patreon membership paywall), suggests a few key items to get started (container size, port logistics, policies)
- The Experimental African Houses That Outsmart Malaria (Wired) – fantastic development to fight mosquitoes and Malaria by stilts raised homes and opened airflow. As the sea level rises across the globe, this may become applicable across more regions…
- Secret Workings of Smell Receptors Revealed for First Time (Quanta) – it involves molecular biology, ion receptor, cryo-electron microscopy, and… science! Now, let’s be more appreciative when we smell those Brie, or Durian, or Stinky tofu?
That’s it for this week! Have a nice weekend!
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