The Chomp #052

One Year of The Chomp

Hey Everyone,

This week marks one year of The Chomp! For all of the OG subscribers, thank you for sticking around and for encouraging me to keep this thing going. For all the new subscribers, thanks for letting me into your inbox and for joining me on this journey.

As we head into year two, I have some exciting news to share in the coming days. I only have an abbreviated issue for you this week but stay tuned for an update.

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Chum Bucket

• An Introduction to Metamodernism: The Cultural Philosophy of the Digital Age (Ness Labs)

• The Bloomberg 50: The 50 People Who Changed Business in 2020 (Bloomberg)

• The Way We Train AI is Fundamentally Flawed (MIT Technology Review)

• The Underside of Silicon Valley’s Co-Founder Mantra (The Information)

• Adam Silver Goes Deep on the Wildest Year in NBA History (GQ)

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Tweet of the Week

Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit

Song of the Week

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Books

Currently Reading

Recently Read

• I finally finished up Grant after chugging through it over the past couple of months. At 1,097 pages in length, it certainly doesn’t skirt any details on the whirlwind life of Ulysses S. Grant. In Grant, Ron Chernow does an epic job of chronicling the—often misunderstood—life and legacy of America’s 18th President and Civil War hero. While I wouldn’t quite put Chernow on the pedal stool of Robert Caro, he’s right up there with other great modern biographers like Walter Isaacson. Despite its length, I remained engaged throughout the book and would highly recommend Grant to any American history buffs as well as fans of politics and military history more generally. (4.5/5)

• This book was weird as fuck. There’s really no other language that would do the weirdness of this book justice. That being said, I couldn’t quit reading it. Despite being completely lost for more than half the book, I was enthralled and sucked into Vandermeer’s universe. This book is positioned as a standalone entry in the Borne series, but I urge you to avoid it at all costs if you haven’t read Borne. Even if you have, and loved Borne (as I did), proceed with caution. (3/5)

Parting Thoughts

This Week in History

• On December 2, 1996, Apple released a multimedia extension for playing color video called QuickTime. Prior to the release of QuickTime, only specialized computers were able to play color video. QuickTime enabled anyone with a personal computer to watch color video, thus changing the history of computing forever. (Source)

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— Cyril Connolly

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-CM

This newsletter is created and authored by Cody McCauley and is published and provided for informational purposes only. The information in the newsletter solely constitutes Cody’s own opinions. None of the information contained in the newsletter constitutes—or should be construed as—investment advice.