Two years ago, we launched Bismarck Brief.
Since then, our analysts have written half a million words on the state of technology, the U.S. government, Chinese industry, and the world.
Here are the 9 most important things we learned about how the world works in 2023.
🧵THREAD: https://t.co/fJWSLRiaUf
Two years ago, we launched Bismarck Brief. Since then, our analysts have written half a million words on the state of technology, the U.S. government, Chinese industry, and the world. Here are the 9 most important things we learned about how the world works in 2023. 🧵THREAD: https://t.co/fJWSLRiaUf    
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Antonio Garcia Martinez • 1 highlight
amazon.com
Lately, it has felt like God grabbed the snow globe labelled “Planet Earth” and decided to give it a rather hefty shake. Microsoft made a huge advancein quantum computing, potentially discovering new forms of matter; large language models are challenging the very nature of knowledge work; and a new U.S. administration has ambitions to remake the gl
... See moreOne result of this past tech cycle was a view that companies needed to build hyper complex ponzi schemes of ambition in order to accumulate capital and be valued. This led to a variety of shooting stars that never realized their main goal.
Another view was an insane amount of value ascribed to hyper-narrow features masquerading as companies, leading... See more
Another view was an insane amount of value ascribed to hyper-narrow features masquerading as companies, leading... See more
Michael Dempsey • On Scope Creep & ZIRP Lessons
starting in the late 1980s, with the explosion of the knowledge economy, people who were broader—who had worked across numerous technological domains—started making the biggest impacts. That's continuing today.
Alex Hickey • A Conversation With "Range" Author David Epstein
