innovation
Age of Invention: Why wasn't the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part III
Anton Howesantonhowes.substack.com
The answer, I think, is what it almost always is: that inventors are simply extremely rare. People can have all the incentives, all the materials, all the mechanical skills, and even all the right general notions of how things work. As we’ve seen, even Savery himself was apparently inspired by the same ancient experiment as everyone else who worked... See more
Anton Howes • Age of Invention: Why wasn't the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part III
We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
Ben Goertzelbengoertzel.substack.com
Wondering if chat GPT plug-ins are the new App Store or the new Alexa skills. And, by extension, an admission that this is orders of magnitude less powerful than it looks.
It’s not that entrepreneurs are natural rule-breakers. Rather … they want self-direction. They aren’t going to take the world at face value. They have to figure it out for themselves.
