innovation culture
First is the observation I’ve made throughout: that people are building companies based on ideas from the 1950s and 1960s.
This is a very real thing. Earlier this week, I met with Tyler Hayes at Atom Limbs to see the robotic prosthetic he and his team are building. After he slipped the cuff on my arm and as we were waiting for the system to boot... See more
This is a very real thing. Earlier this week, I met with Tyler Hayes at Atom Limbs to see the robotic prosthetic he and his team are building. After he slipped the cuff on my arm and as we were waiting for the system to boot... See more
Packy McCormick • What Do You Do With an Idea?
there have always been ideas that get revisited when new technologies might make them work better/for the first time
If you read Influence by Robert Cialdini, what you realize is that many things are successfully sold by opposites. Everybody has one of these, so it must be good. Or: not many people have one of these, so it must be good. You can achieve the same emotional effect with opposite messages. There are two great ways to check into a hotel. One of them is... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
opposite service strategy (barbells)
What’s going on here is, fairly obviously, some combination of simple old-guy aesthetic NIMBYism (“those massive solar fields”) and right-wing culture wars. The latter has been caused by decades of Americans seeing energy technology as being fundamentally about climate , rather than about energy itself . In a post back in December, I wrote the... See more
Too many Americans still fear the future
Caro’s question is: How does political power really work in America?
Once he asks it, it takes the wheel. Caro is willing to go broke to answer it.
For example: one day in the 1960s, his wife Ina sold their home so that he wouldn’t have to, because it was obvious to both of them that they needed to. And despite being warned by those around Robert... See more
Once he asks it, it takes the wheel. Caro is willing to go broke to answer it.
For example: one day in the 1960s, his wife Ina sold their home so that he wouldn’t have to, because it was obvious to both of them that they needed to. And despite being warned by those around Robert... See more
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
"There is nothing like working on Internet coupons to make you yearn to build something you truly love." - @bscholl https://t.co/UOXNEb3QzT
232. From Typewriters to Transformers: AI is Just the Next Tools Abstraction
Steven Sinofskyhardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
Here is how Plutarch, classical biographer par excellence, described his attraction to the stories of great men:
We may say, then, that achievements of this kind, which do not arouse the spirit of emulation or create any passionate desire to imitate them, are of no great benefit to the spectator. On the other hand virtue in action immediately takes... See more
