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Public markets reward predictability.
Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
It traditionally assumed that firms were independent, and so changes would be independent, and so their sizes and aggregate effects would be distributed normally.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The less predictable and controllable the life course has become, the more individuals have been urged to chart their own courses, to “master” their destinies, and to make themselves over. In addition to actual hours spent on the job—which have increased dramatically—Americans are compelled to constantly work on themselves to remain competitive in
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He’s Sih Hsuin Ma now—his old self turned inside out, like a jaunty, reversible jacket.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Pragmatic Chaos
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Debra Schneider
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Transitioning into retirement with lots of wonderings and wonder
"Authorship"-in the sense we know it today, individual intellectual effort related to the book as an economic commodity-was practically unknown before the advent of print technology. Medieval scholars were indifferent to the precise identity of the "books" they studied. In turn, they rarely signed even what was clearly their own. They were a humble
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