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This one is for my fellow Dickheads…

A really excellent essay about how Philip K. Dick predicted our current day, “filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown. Musk and his brethren seem more like escapees from this universe than the Asimovian super-geniuses they imagine themselves to be.” [Link: Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick? | https://www.ft.com/content/bdcf7729-3b03-49ec-82fb-b5773fdaa990 | Financial Times]

"We're not doing 30 bets a year": Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z | TechCrunch

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.

Saturday, October 10, 2026

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