Nick Rabjohn

You must create the conditions for your product’s success. They converged everything around their core loop: encourage more driving → which leads to more movement → more movement leads to more wear → more wear leads to more tire sales. A tire company will prosper if people travel more . We're not going to sell tires. We're going to sell movement.

Disney, General Electric, News Corporation, Sony, Time Warner, and Viacom—controlled every major movie studio and broadcast network, and a substantial portion of the profitable cable businesses. The conglomerates were raking in more than 85 percent of all film revenue and producing more than 80 percent of American prime-time television.

For the first time, machines outperform humans in domains that education has long treated as proxies for intelligence, like recall, synthesis, linguistic fluency, and pattern recognition. That shift does not eliminate learning, but it does destabilize a system that equated those outputs with understanding.

psychologists from the Netherlands proposed the ‘dual pathway to creativity model’, suggesting that creative ideation occurs when cognitive flexibility is married to cognitive persistence

Consider the apple: an apple tree wraps its reproductive code (the seed) in an animal-tempting package (the fruit). The seed rides along for free, gets distributed, and only needs to get to work once it’s already in fertile ground, later. Nature asks no one to value the seed.

“Regardless of which path we choose, the future of computing will be hyper-personalized,” they write. “The question is whether that personalization will be in service of keeping us passively glued to screens—wading around in the shallows, stripped of agency—or whether it will enable us to direct more attention to what matters.”

As Kane grows more powerful, he believes he and his institution really can manufacture reality—that his newspapers actually decide issues of war and peace, that they can make him governor despite scandal, that his wealth can transform his untalented wife Susan Alexander into an opera diva.