innovation culture
Repairing this ethic is a task that defies any straightforward approach. Solving it is not a matter of devising elegant theories or highly specified plans, but instead observing what stirs within when you encounter a piece of architecture.
Noah Putnam • The Concrete Oasis
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.comStartups, he argues, can be engineered in the same way. “Startups excel when they put all their energy into one main thing ,” he says. “If you want to hit escape velocity, your startup should be designed to focus on that. In other words, it better taste good. But if your startup is designed to have several teams all equal in size, where’s your... See more
Nan Yu • Make an Org Chart You Want to Ship — Advice from Linear on Designing Your Team
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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Sean X • Tweet
Americans as a whole will be frustrated and enraged if they understood just how much NEPA and other regulations are weaponized by progressives to block the government from getting anything done. Therefore the only battles the “power” faction can hope to win are internecine fights against the abundance faction. And so, a bit like the leftists with... See more
At least five interesting things: Build Something, Dammit! (#56)
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
Their methods are a bit unorthodox, but Dyevre (2024) uses more standard methods and obtains broadly similar results:
Using a novel firm-level dataset...covering 70 years (1950-2020), I estimate the impact of the decline in public R&D in the US on long-run productivity growth. I use two instrumental variable strategies...to estimate the impact of... See more