Welcome to Top 5 Tech, my weekly show of what to watch, read, listen, download, and something
deep every week.
This week we've got an in-depth look at the Ferrari Luce.
It's Ferrari's first all-electric car and MKBHD had an in-depth video going through
the entire interior.
He couldn't show it driving yet, that's going to be coming in a second video on his autofocus
channel, but the story here was Johnny Ive and his company LoveFrom is responsible for
the design of this car.
Now if you're a Ferrari head, it looks very different from a Ferrari, but if you want
what it looks like when Johnny Ive designs a car, it is
never in my life wanted a Ferrari, but the interior of this car is pretty sweet. The
air conditioning vents are wild, physical controls on top of digital displays and controls.
It also has carplay. Pretty wild. I'll link that video below. Oh, and a little bonus video
pic. I saw Gruber talk about the word okay in an article and I wanted to link back to
this video. It's seven years old from Vox Media, but it's about the etymology of just
okay. The thing we probably all say multiple times a day and don't even think about it
and where it comes from. So I'll link that below, too. I want to listen to Neela Patel.
Neela Patel has been interviewing Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, for the last several years.
And there was a great interview released earlier this week talking about Google's approach
to AI and all the AI things, where Sundar Pichai thinks it's going, and is Google search
going to stop sending traffic to actual websites? That's a great listen. And I was also a special
guest on the Focus podcast with David Sparks and Mike Schmitz. And we got really deep.
We talked about generalists. I even shout out like all the books I've read in the last
seven years and how it's really shaped my thinking. So that episode will be coming out
and I'll link it below.
I'm going to give you a how rather than a what, which is a new RSS reader.
This is Amethyst.
It's free to download on Mac and iPhone.
There's also an iPad and Apple Vision Pro app.
It is totally free.
There's no in-app purchases.
There's nothing to buy.
And it's pretty nice.
I'm testing Amethyst and I'm also testing the Readwise service because that is also
an RSS reader and read it later service.
So I'm in experimenting phase right now.
I've used Reader Classic for a long time with my RSS feeds, but it's easy to export the
OPML file, import all your feeds into Amethyst, and try this one out.
And since that's more of a download than a read, I'll give you a bonus download, which is a shortcut.
I shared in my Shortcuts community a shortcut for keeping track of stock and inventory,
whether that's what's in your deep freezer, what's in your office supplies.
And this shortcut, when you run it, actually lets you view the inventory,
and it's actually hacking a reminders list to keep track of those items and even update quantity.
You can add or remove quantity or new items.
I did a little short video explaining how to use it as well, so I'll link that all below.
And finally on Something Deep, this is going to seem frivolous at first,
my son actually shared with me a meme he came across, which is Bob Ross painting,
but the music behind him is Mozart's Lacrimosa, one of my favorite classical works.
And instead of whatever he's painting, they've overlaid a Fortnite clip,
where Spider-Man is in the Fortnite clip,
and it's remixed to his brushstrokes actually changing the Fortnite gameplay on his easel.
This sounds insane, and yes it is.
You should just watch this 40-second video because it's hilarious, but I also find this incredible.
The thing that the current generation is the best at, it's remixing all the things.
Now I love classical music, I literally have a music degree,
and you might think, well this is disrespecting classical music and Bob Ross and all of that,
but honestly I almost feel like this kind of remixing that current culture is doing,
the meme culture on TikTok and Instagram Reels,
actually is kind of a brand new way that a new generation can experience these things.
You're only hearing the first few seconds of the Lacrimosa movement of Mozart's Requiem,
But it's there and it still exists today in.
And it's a mashup of Spider-Man inside Fortnite painted by Bob Ross with Mozart in the background.
It just kind of blew my mind the creativity and remix ability of the current generation.
And I think we can all agree Mozart had no idea how his work would be used hundreds of years later.
So those are my top five things this week.
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