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As much as we criticize the current system, we work hard to succeed to acquire the status it unlocks. Status is one of the main reasons why degrees from a handful of selective top-branded universities, which are only accessible after students have gone through at least 12 years of the factory-model education, still attract the majority of the... See more
Mind Apivessa • mindapi | Mind A | Substack
My own explanation, though, is that it's a question of fungibility. To have a truly winner-takes-all marketplace requires non-fungible supply and, especially, demand.
David Phelps • The promised land of the singing frog
There’s no reason that 1000 employees can’t be replaced by a group of independent contractors, especially in a post-assembly line economy.
James Dale Davidson • The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
Silicon Valley is the canonical example of economic agglomeration. The knowledge of how to build, program, and operate computer components was a shared, scarce resource in the early 1960’s. Programmers and technicians often moved between companies, transferring best practices. This collaboration caused companies to release products with... See more
Xing Quan Zhang • The Economic Role of Cities
Second, most community members complain that, on chat platforms, they often answer the same question or address the same concern many times over. The conversations just disappear too quickly for others to easily find, and since they’re not indexed or perma-linked, it’s difficult to reference previously answered questions.
Patrick Woods • Slack vs Discord vs Discourse: The best tool for your community - Orbit
Research analyzing historical US patent data has proven inventions are rarely if ever, created from scratch. They are almost always a combination of research and ideas that already exist. Relatedly, Paul Romer, an economist who has spent his career researching economic growth, has found economic growth does not come from new resources - it comes... See more
Maria Salamanca • Remix Culture: Jumpstarting Creativity
storytelling combined with differentiated reference material becomes the key skill in an AI world
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” — Voltaire
His authority is not intelligence but fidelity, the willingness to remain faithful to something that arrived without justification and refuses to submit to it. This is the thing no training regime can teach. Not taste, not speed, not range, not even the ability to reason, but the capacity to be remade by something unexplainable, and to let that... See more