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?
What would it look like if, in a McLuhan-esque, medium is the message sort of way, our tools said to us:
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the... See more
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the... See more
Sari Azout • What Does Slow AI Look Like?
Instead, such cultural intelligence should be
leading
R&D, innovation and executive strategy.
We’re spending millions
too late
.
We’ve reversed the figure and the ground: We’re spending more time, energy and money on the attempted harmonization of an offering and culture, than we are ensuring whatever’s being produced is
even desired
and produced... See more
leading
R&D, innovation and executive strategy.
We’re spending millions
too late
.
We’ve reversed the figure and the ground: We’re spending more time, energy and money on the attempted harmonization of an offering and culture, than we are ensuring whatever’s being produced is
even desired
and produced... See more
Matt Klein • Marketing Won't Save You. Your Consumers Will.
in contrast to engineering/mechanical ideas as foundation
Note that the key phenomena are not movements. They are not collective efforts to build social capital around any particular idea or aesthetic or value. Nor are they forms of propaganda or prestige. The real core activities of culture are disciplines of craft aimed at actually achieving something great, regardless of what everyone else thinks. They... See more
Wolf Tivy • Entrepreneurial Statecraft Gets the Goods
04. The Illusion of Progress : Action Bias leads us to believe that doing something – anything – is better than doing nothing , even when the action doesn’t actually move us forward. We equate busyness with productivity, mistaking motion for progress, and perceive novelty as innately valuable.
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
Conway’s Law is so commonly referenced in Silicon Valley at this point it’s almost a meme. But I still don’t think we take it seriously enough. Because your product will be a mirror of your teams. You will ship your org chart.
Make an Org Chart You Want to Ship — Advice from Linear on Designing Your Team

"There is nothing like working on Internet coupons to make you yearn to build something you truly love." - @bscholl https://t.co/UOXNEb3QzT
Once front-running other participants in financial markets or cultural production becomes a common strategy, trends become inefficiencies – temporary blips of difference or spikes in value that are bound for correction. Being early as a meta is replaced by catching people offsides. Betting on the return to the mean.
The Nemesis Guide to Being Early *Summer ‘24 Edition*
C based react alternative in a way, but native to every environment ?