Andrei Stoica

But the Benedictines could not have achieved what they did without engaging in complex forms of political conflict and social innovation. After all, revolutions don’t just happen on their own. They require the emergence of new “great captains” to lead the world through periods of intense political conflict and oversee great epochal transitions in... See more

College offered a lateral move into another subspecies of suburb: Claremont, California, a town whose entire identity orbits the five liberal arts colleges planted there like orchids in a parking lot. Arizona’s sprawl felt like a spreadsheet, but Claremont was a Venn diagram: overlapping circles of academia, twee downtown boutiques, and streets... See more

Politically, too, Europe is more united than it has been in its entire history — witness how the whole region came together to apply sanctions on Russia in 2022, and how even traditionally neutral countries like Sweden have been joining NATO.

I wrote recently in a tweet that there’s a rarity from technologist to say whether a thing is good or not. Instead they repeat that it is inevitable, and their actions show that they believe they should financially benefit from and “steer” that inevitability. That is a politically bankrupt position.

Whereas philosophers, psychologists, and the like search for models of human cognition and behavior, the field of artificial intelligence aims to take such models and turn them into useful tools in reality. As the salience of vibes as a way of (not) explaining experience has grown, so too have the applications of machine learning and neural... See more

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 Model of Process and Product Innovation . By looking at a study of 120 firms, they found that product innovation is initially dominant but gradually gives way to process innovation as the product

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