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First weeknote of 2025. With only two days back at work it was a nice slow re- intro.

https://www.liamjbennett.me/weeknotes/2024-12-28-weeknote-39/

#weeknotes

	Pickle - Your AI body double in zoom calls
	Pickle lets your AI body double join zoom calls instead of you. It lip-syncs to your voice, so you don't have to turn on your camera. Create your Pickle and make your zoom call easy.
	getpickle.ai

Well this year has had a few interesting moments and I’ve not blogged for a while so as the year comes to a close here is my year-end review:

https://www.liamjbennett.me/posts/2024-12-20-2024-year- review/

	''Founder Mode'' and the Art of Mythmaking
	I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …
	charity.wtf

	Scaling Laws - O1 Pro Architecture, Reasoning Training Infrastructure, Orion and Claude 3.5 Opus “Failures”
	There has been an increasing amount of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) regarding AI Scaling laws. A cavalcade of part-time AI industry prognosticators have latched on to any bearish narrative the…
	semianalysis.com

	Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
	How AI Could Transform the World for the Better
	darioamodei.com

	The Adaptive Chief Technology Officer
	Understanding the Life Cycle of the CTO Role
	chubernetes.com

	I Remastered Facebook's Little Red Book
	I Remastered Facebook's Little Red Book
	spaccapeli.com

	Presentations - Benedict Evans
	Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. For 2024, ‘AI, and everything else’.
	ben-evans.com

	How your brain works in an emergency, in 9 minutes
	Humans, like most mammals, tend to shut down in really frightening situations for which they have no training or prior experience. Researchers call it negative panic. People do nothing. They shut down.
	bigthink.com