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Relatively flat US output growth versus rising numbers of US researchers is often interpreted as evidence that “ideas are getting harder to find.” We

Henderson and Clark cite Abernathy and Utterback (1978) who, if you’ll recall from Vertical Integrators: Part II:co-authored a paper titled A Dynamic

“the internet is full of smart people writing beautiful prose about how bad everything is... i find this confusing and tragic, like watching Olympic h

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product in

How Did Hokas Become So Popular?

when making things becomes frictionless, starting stops meaning anything.

A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook

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The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six

We need the right kind of climate optimism

South Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han has developed a useful approach to think about different ways of spending and thinking about time onlin

The concept of ‘deep time’ was first described in 1788 by the Scottish geologist James Hutton, although only coined as a term 200 years later, by the