Stephen Black

power is free and cooling is the vacuum of space.

But Beijing didn’t care about speed. Beijing cared about inevitability. They built the infrastructure. They waited for adoption friction. They let network effects compound.

That’s the work.

The unsexy, obsessive, hyper-focused work that nobody wants to do.

Val’s not special because she’s kind. Lots of people are kind.

She’s special because she executes.

Quentin Tarantino — a moviemaking purist who insists all his films be shot on actual film — directing a movie for release in Fortnite marks a paradigm shift for the game’s acceptance not just as a venue for showing movies, but as a medium in and of itself.

Behind The Scenes: Tarantino never made the section of Kill Bill — now called The Lost... See more

"This is the urgency: Live! And have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind."

- Gwendolyn Brooks, from "The Second Sermon on the Warpland"

Everyday essentials have become a critical business for Amazon’s e-commerce arm. Even though they’re typically “low margin and some even unprofitable” for Amazon to offer, sales have doubled this year and kept shoppers coming back to the platform. It’s a similar finding when it comes to shoppers who buy their fresh groceries from Amazon — they... See more

Competence is threatening to mediocrity.

None of them look anything like me, but they are dressed the way I was dressed when I was 2 years old.”