Good Tokens 2025-11-21
Worth your time
The number of Americans taking GLP-1 drugs continues to grow substantially. There’s no official tally, but Circana believes that 23% of US households — about 30 million — had at least one GLP-1 user in September, suggesting there are tens of millions of users. By 2030, five years from now, it expects GLP-1 households to purchase 35% of food sold in the US (measured by units), up from 24% today.
ChinaTalk on acquisition reform.
Children need independent peer cultures. The Montessori-pilled in the audience will not be surprised.
Filed under “age as the next political battle ground”.
Thoughts on the future of autonomous vehicles.
Blake Scholl’s conversation with Tyler.
Things I learned
Japan now produces more nappies for incontinent adults than for infants. Also, the top ten states for fertility are all red states; the bottom ten are all blue states (Vermont is last, chased by Oregon — London Review of Books.
The US mint estimates that there are 300 billion pennies in circulation, more than 3x as many stars as there are in the Milky Way — Pennies Are Trash Now
60% of SF Unified School District 8th graders are not proficient in math.
Musings
I can’t remember where I saw this, but it resonated: “You’re not avoiding failure, you’re avoiding the feeling of failure”
LLM corner
Gemini File Search API. I’ll be trying this one out.
Thoughts about code sandboxes.