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GM! It’s Brett again. Remote work is a disaster for young people. Jamie Dimon had a meltdown about it in that leaked video a few months ago.

This new video of him explaining the context behind that leak is spot on.

Early in your career, you need to optimize for learning over everything else - work life balance, city, role, pay, etc. - because later in your career, it’s what you know that will determine your success.

People working remote, especially young people, get put on fewer assignments, know less of what’s going on, and fall behind.

We moved a junior team member to NYC to work in person and it has been game changing for him (and us).

🏠 AI

Google Strikes Back

Google released Gemma 3, and it's a pretty solid deal. These new models are built from the same tech as their Gemini 2.0 but optimized to run on a single GPU or TPU - making them a great for everything from phones to laptops.

The 27B parameter model outperforms monsters like Llama3-405B while needing just one GPU.

Gemma 3 comes in four sizes (1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B), and the feature set is impressive: 128K token context, support for 140 languages, and multimodal capabilities to process text, images, and short videos.

Developers are already jumping on it. One user built a fully local OCR app that extracts text from images as structured markdown - all running on their own computer via Ollama.

Google also released ShieldGemma 2, a 4B parameter safety filter for images that detects explicit, dangerous, or violent content.

Since launching the original Gemma last year, Google has seen over 100 million downloads and 60,000+ community-built variants. To keep the momentum going, they're offering academic researchers $10,000 in cloud credits.

The big picture - This marks a good for AI accessibility. When powerful models can run on standard hardware, suddenly AI isn't just for tech giants with massive compute budgets - it's for everyday developers with regular machines. That's going to accelerate innovation across the board.

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🤝 THE LATEST IN…

TECH

• Live translation is coming soon to AirPods.

• Elon claims X was down due to a cyberattack.

• McDonald’s gives its restaurants an AI makeover.

• Oracle is reportedly a top choice for helping run TikTok.

AI

• OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules.

• Google owns a 14% of Anthropic.

• OpenAI has signed a $11.9B agreement with the GPU-heavy cloud service provider CoreWeave.

• Snapchat is rolling out AI-powered video lenses.

• Meta begins testing its first in-house AI training chip.

SCIENCE

• Firefly’s Blue Ghost keeps wowing us from the lunar surface.

• Engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy.

• Robotics and spinal stimulation restore movement in paralysis.

• The first OS for quantum networks is here.

CRYPTO

• YZi Labs invests in Plume Network.

• South Korea's central bank rules out bitcoin reserve possibility.

• Global crypto funds' worst-ever weekly outflow.

• Russia leans on cryptocurrencies for oil trade.

🏃‍♀️ QUICKIES

Raise: Ditto, a company specializing in resilient connectivity for edge devices, raised $82M in a Series B funding round to enhance data synchronization from the edge to the cloud.

Stat: $3.5B. That’s the price Niantic is selling its video game (Pokémon Go) division to Saudi-owned Scopely as it pivots to geospatial AI.

Rabbit Hole: Climbing the Wrong Hill (Chris Dixon)

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🎯 The 80 / 20

Simple tricks to get a ton of value with minimal effort for work and life.

The OHIO Hack

Only Handle It Once.

If a task takes less than two minutes - just do it. Don’t write it down. Don’t push it to later. Don’t let it sit in your inbox. Knock it out and move on.

Every time you touch a task but don’t finish it, you’re doubling the mental load. Reading an email now and responding later? That’s two context switches instead of one. Sorting mail but not dealing with it? Wasted energy. Every extra step is friction.

OHIO keeps your mental RAM clean. It works great for emails, DMs, small admin tasks - anything quick. If it’s a bigger task, at least decide when you’ll handle it instead of leaving it in limbo.

The less you revisit small things, the more brainpower you have for actual work.

❓️ AI GENERATED OR NOT

Last week’s answer: If you guessed AI-generated… you were wrong.

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Yeah (~29%)

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ Nope (~71%)

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