The Pope's 45-page encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. Erdős problem #1196 solved with a proof career mathematicians are calling elegant. A Chinese company has 10,000 pre-orders for a pet-translation collar claiming 95% accuracy. Intuit cut 3,000 jobs (17%) while Gavin Newsom signed worker-protection orders echoing Chinese policy. And benchbench: a benchmark for how well models build benchmarks.This week the Deep Dive explores: Abundance of Relationships. The abundance paradoxes. Weak ties as the real abundance engine, and how Americans explore weak ties better than Europeans. Why scarcity made chimps competitive while abundance made bonobos resolve conflict differently. Dunbar's Number. Aldous Huxley's mutual adoption clubs. Cactus friends: no water needed.
RESOURCES
PEOPLE
Aldous Huxley — author of Island
Paul Graham — bus ticket theory, startup essays
Paul Erdős — mathematician behind problem #1196
Gavin Newsom — California Governor, AI worker EO
Marshall McLuhan — tools as extensions of senses
Thich Nhat Hanh — quoted from How to Sit
T.E. Lawrence — The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
BOOKS
Island — Aldous Huxley
The Other Significant Others — non-romantic relationships
How to Sit — Thich Nhat Hanh
TOOLS / COMPANIES
Claude Opus 4.7, Kimi K2, Google Stitch, iNaturalist, OpenAI, Intuit, BenchBench, Perfect Amino, Coherence Company, Reddit
CONCEPTS / LAWS
Babel vs Jerusalem, data colonialism, Dunbar's number, weak ties, Blue Zones, mutual adoption clubs, cactus friends, co-opetition, bus ticket theory, Blue Ocean Strategy, first principles, trim tabs, NZ de facto marriage
ESSAYS
Bus Ticket Theory of Genius — Paul Graham
How to Get Startup Ideas — Paul Graham
Magnifica Humanatus — Pope's encyclical on AI
OTHER
Pet translator collar — 95% claimed, 10,000 pre-orders
Erdős problem #1196 — 80-year-old math problem
Hong Kong billionaire-room video — 1-day vs 20-year timelines
Hermes agent on a Nemotron — AMA persona [unclear — check ~02:27:55]