innovation culture
One is simply the sheer difficulty of building a modern commercial aircraft, which is probably one of the five or six most complex technical achievements of modern civilization (along with jet engines, leading-edge semiconductor fabrication, and nuclear submarines). Commercial aircraft must couple a high level of performance in some of the most... See more
Will the China Cycle Come for Airbus and Boeing?
Notably, this theory completely omits the role of the real estate developer, who has a greater influence than anyone else in how a building comes together. Skyscrapers are designed by architects, but it’s the developer who conceives of the project, arranges the funding, hires the design team, and ultimately decides what the building will be. To me,... See more
Brian Potter • Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Jeff Weinstein, Stripe - Conversations on Quality (Episode 03)
youtube.com4. Ever wonder about the vast universe of critically acclaimed aesthetic masterworks, most of which you do not really fathom? If you dismiss them, and mistrust the critics, odds are that you are wrong and they are right. You do not have the context to appreciate those works. That is fine, but no reason to dismiss that which you do not understand.... See more
Tyler Cowen • “Context is that which is scarce”
WTF Happened In 1971?
wtfhappenedin1971.com
i think people need to deeply examine what MSCHF has done right and wrong if they want to take this approach this time around - killers at the attention playbook but not really able to gain any meaningful network effects for value
x.comThe technocracy has evolved radically. Technical knowledge based on science has replaced military and theological knowledge as the source of power, but the distance is not as large as you might think. In modern technocratic power, the distinction between hard-edged scientific knowledge and softer ideological paradigm knowledge is blurry. We have... See more
Venkatesh Rao • The Modernity Machine
No amount of trend research will help if findings are not integrated much earlier in the strategy process.
What so many organizations get wrong about marketing today is that they treat foresight, cultural intelligence and social listening as downstream efforts.
Too often, every single day, we attempt to map already finalized products to a mismatched... See more
What so many organizations get wrong about marketing today is that they treat foresight, cultural intelligence and social listening as downstream efforts.
Too often, every single day, we attempt to map already finalized products to a mismatched... See more
Matt Klein • Marketing Won't Save You. Your Consumers Will.
The default outcome?
Let's grant the assumptions at the start of this post and the above analysis. Then, the post-labour-replacing-AI world involves:
Let's grant the assumptions at the start of this post and the above analysis. Then, the post-labour-replacing-AI world involves:
- Money will be able to buy results in the real world better than ever.
- People's labour gives them less leverage than ever before.
- Achieving outlier success through your labour in most or all areas is now