added by sari · updated 2y ago
Firehose #168: 🏙 Urban flight. 🏙
- My humbler assertion is that 2020 has punctured my confidence that the internet cannot encroach on the benefits of urban density and proximity. Going forward, many fledgling companies may agree, as they find that the city in the cloud essentially acts as a more accessible version of the city on the Earth, eerily reproducing its forces of agglomerat... See more
from Superstar Cities Are in Trouble by Derek Thompson
sari added
- We accept today that the days of startup cities, at least in the West, are over, but I don't think we should. And the societal changes that a post-COVID world makes possible could restart this cycle. For thousands of years, ambitious young people have had to move to big cities run by the kind of people who run big cities to maximize opportunity in ... See more
from The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen - Interviewed by a Retard by Marc Andreessen
sari added
- With more remote and hybrid work, I think we probably have to be more thoughtful about creating connections — to new people and new ideas. I don’t think it means we can’t do it, but perhaps we can’t rely on water-cooler or photocopier serendipity to the extent we might have in the past.
Perhaps we can use tactics like the “Monday Notes” NASA employ... See morefrom "Communication Really Happens in the Carpool..." by David Epstein
Britt Gage added