Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
Progress is mostly about what does not happen. Progress means a 92-year-old who did not die today, a boy who was not robbed on his way to school, a 12-year girl who is not married to a 30-year old man, etc. What did not happen does not make the news. The best parts of civilization don’t get headlined.
Kevin Kelly • 💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
A decade ago, I was only a couple of years into my venture career. I believed that growth and progress were synonymous – in an industry where scale was the ultimate target, platforms that achieved it were glorified. A decade later, I have learned that success is more nuanced, and we have to take accountability for the outcomes we encourage. New... See more
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures)
interesting thoughts from a venture capitalist
a good reminder that all innovation is initially resisted
World's Hardest Problems
Sustainability + Human Development Is the food we eat scalable, sustainable, healthy, nutritious and tasty? Is the air we breathe clean? Is the water we drink pure? Is there a way to produce energy that is relatively abundant, cheap and clean? Is there a way to reverse or mitigate climate chan...
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"Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing." -David L. Cooperrider
We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
Ben Goertzelbengoertzel.substack.com
"Futurism tells us more about the present than the future"
--@mattwridley nails it
Ben Reinhardttwitter.com