business, ideas, and environments

I am proposing that it can be helpful to think of Ideas as occupying a space that exists alongside the purely physical world with which we’re all familiar, and that further it is useful to think of this parallel emergent world as extremely real and not at all a metaphor .

When you encounter a new idea, you change, and so the world changes. When you share an idea with another, they change. When you create a new idea, you restructure the ecological space of ideas itself. At each of these steps, the material world has changed, because ideas and people are part of the world. And when your ideas change so too does your... See more

In a long-context world, maybe the organizations that benefit from AI will not be the ones with the most powerful models, but rather the ones with the most artfully curated contexts.

Artists do not create contexts; they work within them. Context is the web of complex circumstances in which artists work in relation to their physical environment, historical trends and traditions, social movements, cultural values, intellectual perspectives, personal commitments, and more. Art originates from within a context. Likewise, art is

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The role of a successful place is to provide a catalytic context for missions.