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I truly think that autodidacts are responsible for all that is good and great about alternative culture.
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Just as with lean production, Scenario #2 promises better quality, lower costs, and faster delivery. But it requires specific institutional conditions to initiate and to succeed:
• First, it thrives in contexts of demographic pressure , where young workers are scarce. This describes much of Europe (particularly given increasing resistance to
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What’s the opportunity for young people. There are already fewer people hiring juniors
Ergodicity. There is no ideal path because it comes out of millions.
- Ole Peters
Instead, we're likely to see the emergence of a modern, AI-driven twist on the keiretsu system: startups providing specialised AI capabilities while receiving not just funding but also data, domain expertise, and market access from their enterprise partners.
Nicolas Colin • Who Will Be the Japan of the AI Era? - By Nicolas Colin Who Will Be the Japan of the AI Era?
it discourages a certain form of dilettantism—peering into an adjacent field that you don’t have the “right” background for, using techniques you aren’t “qualified” to be doing, introducing references and sources that are nontraditional and even looked down upon in your primary field. Research as a leisure activity isn’t constrained by these
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When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic.
We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of brand or story or a reflection of team cohesion, because investing on “vibes” or “look” or “mood” is very frowned upon. Even using it as a data point is beaten out of... See more
Katherine Boylex.comInterstellar made a lot of money to the profit selling wheat for the film. They built a wheat farm instead of cgi and it was a better investment than hiring a cgi studio.
The best design work rarely starts with order. It starts with questions, with play, with a lot of mess. We need tools that make room for that. Because if everything is neatly aligned from the beginning, we may never discover what lies just outside the grid.