To argue against some of this, James Turrell has said that part of the value of Roden Crater’s remoteness is that you have to really care to go there. Getting a plane and a hotel and a ticket, and taking days of time, has some of the same effect for a conference - it gives a selection filter for people who care.
A flow state is priceless. It happens when we lose ourselves in the work, simply connecting with the task, without commentary or doubt. When we’re in flow, time slows down, satisfaction rises and we feel fully engaged.
No other list on our Nine by Nine incorporates so many different strategies and verticals, from alcohol and spirits (Haus), to CBD (Lord Jones), to resale platforms (StockX) -- from high fashion (Acne Studios) to food-delivery-cum-peak-health (Sakara).
Keynes defined investment - he called it “enterprise” - as “forecasting the prospective yield of an asset over its entire life.” He defined speculation as “the activity of forecasting the market.”