The hottest Industry Impact Substack posts right now

The belief that just scaling up models and data will by itself produce general intelligence has failed and the community is finally recognizing its limits.
Current generative models are still unreliable — they hallucinate, struggle with reasoning and facts, and many businesses aren’t seeing the promised ROI.
The next phase should be interdisciplinary: borrow ideas from cognitive science and combine symbolic, causal, and world-model approaches to build more reliable, human-informed AI.

Nobody really knows what will happen next with AI, so most confident predictions are just educated guesses and should be taken with caution.
AI is already disrupting large swaths of white-collar work and is moving toward physical tasks with robotics, which is causing real market anxiety and rapid industry shifts.
The real conversation needs to be about people: retraining, who pays for transitions, and which institutions will support workers, because the pace of change feels much faster than past revolutions.

Hertz is selling off their 20,000 EVs due to operational challenges and inefficiencies in the EV business.
Tesla is highlighted as the top choice for EVs with the best range, features, and price.
The real issue with EVs isn't the vehicles themselves but rather the government subsidies and operational complexities, such as charging and maintenance, that impact rental car companies like Hertz.

The Linear No Threshold (LNT) theory has made nuclear power expensive.
LNT fails to account for our ability to repair radiation damage over time.
The nuclear industry supports LNT and the Goldstandard to maintain their position and funding.

Many large companies use customer service representatives as shields for systemic failures.
Lower-paid workers tend to bear the brunt of customer anger due to organizational shortcomings.
Highly skilled workers like doctors are experiencing similar challenges as frontline employees in dealing with industry-wide failures.

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The post discusses decision making using external data.
The author spoke at Domino Data Lab's Rev4 Conference about the hedge fund industry's use of external data.
Rev conference is focused on strategic data leaders and offers great talks.

Online influence in tech is not the only path to success in a tech career.
Building prestige involves gaining respect for achievements, character, and quality of work.
Approaches to growing prestige include inventing, newsletters, talks, deep dives, and getting others to talk about your work.