Andrei Stoica

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Klein and Thompson discuss all of these challenges in detail. Of the five concrete items they want Americans to have more of — housing, green energy, transportation, technological innovation, and health care — four are clearly downstream of those pressing recent challenges.

Rather than competing on features, or cost, or attempting to create more best-of-breed products, or pay ever fatter sales commissions which ate away margins, Ellison chose to tell his customers that they were doing it wrong .5 Software shouldn’t be built to fit business processes, he said, business processes must adapt to software. Vertically... See more

When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media. Words addressed to a large and diverse set of people need to be simple and clear and free of jargon. It is valuable to write clearly of course, to a degree. Clear writing is clear thinking. But to make the content accessible? To

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Adam Kirsch, in his piece about the Amtrak residency, theorized: “Perhaps there is a certain charm in the fact that the train is an obsolete mode of transportation, much as literature sometimes suspects that it is an obsolete form of communication.”