Can AGI and capitalism coexist?
Read why AGI (if achieved) will shake the foundantions of capitalism and how parenting can teach you more about leadership than best Udemy courses
Hello there tech readers 👋
As my family grows 👶, my free time gets thinner, and it is getting harder to prepare weekly ToT digests. Some part of this preparation goes into creating those short summaries for each article (authored by me, not LLMs).
Limited prep time forced me to rethink this. I thought, instead of spending time writing up a summary, I could just copy a paragraph or two from the source article that caught my attention the most, and use those as the summary/hook 🤔.
This saves me time in preparing the digest ✅
Catchy quote from the article itself is better than any summary I can conjure up ✅
Feels like a win-win 🙌
And if I ever feel the need to ramble myself, I can always author an article (like this one, for example).
Time to read, go and check it out below 👇
AI and the Imminent Death of Capitalism (14 min)
“In my mind, we either have AGI or we have jobs. Because, as I said in the above consequences section, any decent AGI means that humans as workers will become an obsolete concept.
Are you familiar with the idea of transitive properties? If A = B and B = C then A = C. Sound familiar?
Our AI companies are trying to create AGI. AGI means we don’t have jobs.
This means, through the magic of transitive properties, that a massive percentage of our economy is frantically working to make certain that no humans have jobs in the future. Which feels awfully weird. And concerning.”
Audience: Anyone really
Value: Learn about the conflict between AGI and capitalism
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐🌟
All You Need Is Feedback (9 min)
“Imagine if your manager gave you one useful piece of feedback every week which you implemented by the following week. Anyone who does this would be an astonishingly high performer, improving in 52 ways every year. If this is manifestly true, its opposite follows naturally: a key reason you aren’t growing is either because you aren’t getting feedback or you aren’t implementing it.“
Audience: All professionals
Value: Use feedback to grow
ToT Rating: ⭐⭐
Team got cut. Scope didn’t (7 min)
Audience: Engineering Leaders
Value: Learn how to handle reduced team capacity
ToT Rating: ⭐
FAANG is over. It’s the MANGO era now 🥭 (3 min)
Article source (tagged substack newsletter if available)
“In 2025, FAANG feels like a time capsule from a different internet. Today’s momentum belongs elsewhere. To be specific, to the builders of intelligence, not only infrastructure. Enter: MANGO. Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI.
…
For founders, if you’re not building with intelligence at the core, you’re playing last decade’s game, dot com.”
Audience: All tech professionals
Value: Learn about 🥭
ToT Rating: ⭐
10 Leadership Lessons from 10 Years of Parenting (X min)
“When Saanvi got her first couple of teeth, we got the mandate to start brushing from her pediatrician. We tried songs, screen time, books and so many other distractions. Nothing worked for us until… we started brushing with her!
At work, this transformed how I stayed hands-on. Instead of just assigning code cleanup tasks to my team, I started picking up small refactoring tasks myself. When we had a critical production issue, I joined the war room and picked up the “low level” tasks like taking notes and helping with debugging alongside everyone else.
The shift in team dynamics was immediate. Engineers started volunteering for the "unglamorous" infrastructure work because they saw me doing it too.”
Audience: All professionals
Value: Learn how to learn from your kids
ToT Rating: ⭐
See you soon! 👋