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Google Will Start Deleting Old Accounts This Week

Plus: The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work 

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Cash Nut
November 27, 2023

In Today’s Edition 

  • More Global Refurbished Gadget Startups Are Getting Funded 

  • The 10-year “Overnight” Success Story of Casetext 

  • Tesla starts releasing to employees FSD v12 

  • SpaceX launch expected in December following 2 explosive Starship tests 

  • The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work 

  • ‘Treasure trove’ of new CRISPR systems holds promise for genome editing

🚀Startups Nuts

With most top-of-the-line consumer devices reaching peak feature sets and high ticket prices, a new wave of companies are being funded that take “old” gear and repurpose it with a warranty.

Casetext just sold to Thomson Reuters for $650M in what looks like an acquisition swept up in the AI craze. However, this was no overnight success with the company having started in 2023. A walk down memory lane along with what it took to persevere.

🏭Business Nuts 

Tesla has started releasing its Full Self-Driving v12 update to employees. The biggest difference with the update is how vehicle controls will be taken over by neural nets rather than being hardcoded by engineers. Tesla may be able to push the update to customers by the end of the year. Elon Musk has previously said that he believes that Tesla will achieve true self-driving capability by the end of the year.

SpaceX plans to test Starship for the third time in December. There are now three ships in final production. SpaceX launched the second Starship test on November 18. The ship successfully performed a hot-stage separation, but it exploded after it completed a flap and boostback burn.

📱Tech Nuts

Google will start deleting inactive Google accounts from December 1. Accounts are deemed inactive if the user hasn't logged on for at least two years. Gmail addresses for deleted accounts cannot be used again when creating a new Google account. Users just need to sign into their accounts to preserve them.

It's difficult to commodify technical work. Despite the crazy infrastructure that allows us to mass produce things, in many cases, individual people make the machine run. Society runs on commodification, but anyone who thinks that it can run on pure commodification, without any understanding of the human complexities of the people around them, is wrong.

🔥Newsletter Spotlight

🎁Miscellaneous

Researchers used an algorithm to sort through millions of genomes to find new rare types of CRISPR systems that could eventually be adopted into genome-editing tools. Single-celled bacteria and archaea use CRISPR systems to defend themselves against bacteriophages. The algorithm helped scientists identify the code for an entirely unknown CRISPR system that targets RNA. Researchers will be able to use the algorithm to look for other types of protein across species.

💡What else are we reading and seeing?

😎Fun Fact

The world's first known coin, created in Lydia (modern-day Turkey) around 600 BCE, featured a roaring lion's head

🔥 Hot Book of the Day

In today’s world, the acceleration of megatrends – increasing longevity and the explosion of technology among many others – are transforming life as we now know it.

In The Perennials, bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation. Guillén argues that outmoded terms like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have long been used to pigeonhole us into rigid categories and life stages, artificially preventing people from reaching their full potential.

A new post generational workforce known as “perennials” – individuals who are not pitted against each other either by their age or experience – makes it possible to liberate scores of people from the constraints of the sequential model of life and level the playing field so that everyone has a chance at living a rewarding life.

Guillén unveils how this generational revolution will impact young people just entering the workforce as well as those who are living and working longer. This multigenerational revolution is already happening and Mauro Guillén identifies the specific cultural, organizational and policy changes that need to be made in order to switch to a new template and usher in a new era of innovation powered by the perennials.

“The book invites us to rethink our careers, our families, and our future plans.”

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