innovation culture
And I guess I don’t understand why anyone expects AI to make highly profitable quasi-monopolies even more profitable. How much bigger can the market for Office or Google search get? I understand that these companies feel the need to invest in AI for defensive purposes, to fend off potential competitors. But this need should if anything make them... See more
Paul Krugman • Have We Been Partying Like It’s 1999?
It’s critical to the mythology of the hero’s journey to establish the origin point, and like many in tech, our hero’s tend to venture West. Many American heroes have this in common.
Searching for folks with differentiating origin points, life journeys, developmental triumphs and failures → will lead us to new archetypes.
The new question becomes:... See more
Searching for folks with differentiating origin points, life journeys, developmental triumphs and failures → will lead us to new archetypes.
The new question becomes:... See more
Reggie James • A Land Without Giants
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

NYC tech’s newest symbol of peak status is a studio space built around a creative collective. The current wave of VCs & founders are running their businesses out of “Brooklyn-based studios” and investing in “the art of company building” predicated on taste. It’s all connected
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