Check out [[Daily Reading]] for context. Happy New Year!!! ## Today's Picks of the Internet #### [50 Emerging (Technology) Themes to Watch Out For In 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/50-emerging-technology-themes-watch-out-2024-rahim-hirji-8zsee/) Some of the themes that caught my attention, in no particular order. Spoiler alert, it's all AI! - Authenticity vs AI - The tussle between AI-generated content and human-created content - Beaut-AI - The incorporation AI in the beauty industry - AI Edtech - Advent of AI in ed tech + the shift to focus on teaching subjects foundational to AI expertise (especially in schools) #### [How to fight the "tyranny of small decisions"](https://bigthink.com/business/how-to-fight-the-tyranny-of-small-decisions/) - [Tyranny of small decisions](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6435.1966.tb02491.x) - Small, seemingly harmless individual choices could lead into a large, significant outcome that is harmful. Coined by Alfred Kahn in 1966. - An example - People like local, independent bookshops. But people order books of Amazon cuz its easier. This runs the bookshops out of business. People get unhappy about this. - **Think in systems** i.e *appreciate how your isolated decisions might affect the system you are a part of* to prevent unwanted effects of small decisions --- #### Like what you see? Would you like to support me? Easy! Head over to [this link](https://refind.com/?invite=7b7e76f6e0) and subscribe to receive **Refind** newsletters. Every day Refind picks the most relevant links from around the web for you. Loved by 400k curious minds.