Men Spend More Time with TV than with People, Founder Gives Away Half His Wealth to Progressive Causes, a VC Thinks the LLMs are Going to Try and Eat SaaS, & the AI Prompts That Saved a Life [link blog]
The Anti-Social Century [Derek Thompson/The Atlantic] — Is isolation a leading or lagging indication of breakdowns in community, political polarization, declining birthrates and other 21st century American challenges?
Men who watch television now spend seven hours in front of the TV for every hour they spend hanging out with somebody outside their home. The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends in face-to-face contact with friends of her own species. Since the early 2000s, the amount of time that Americans say they spend helping or caring for people outside their nuclear family has declined by more than a third.
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Stay Gold America [Jeff Atwood/Coding Horror] — Jeff’s a cofounder of Stack Overflow and writes here about an admirable decision his family has made: they’re going to give away half of their wealth to “long term efforts ensuring that all Americans continue to have access to the American Dream” such as Planned Parenthood, The Trevor Project, and other humanitarian organizations. Go go Jeff! Tech needs role models like this right now.
How I Used AI to Save My Life in 77 Prompts: A Debrief [Bethany Crystal/Hard Mode First] — My friend Bethany had an incredibly dangerous health scare which could have been much worse if she wasn’t a proactive, informed patient. She didn’t use Dr Google, but instead ChatGPT. She goes deep here on where and how it helped, the prompt chains, and the reaction of her medical care professionals. I
Thinking Through the Future for LLM Companies… and What This Means for B2B AI Startups [Sarah Tavel/Benchmark] — Sarah basically assumes the LLM platforms are going to evolve into competition for most of the B2B businesses built on top of them so she gives her best guess as to how to manage this as a challenger. You need either (a) a network effect, (b) proprietary or hard to access data, or © “execute like hell and land grab in an overlooked vertical.”
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Originally published at https://hunterwalk.com on March 18, 2025.
