Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Because of their marginal costs, atom-based businesses have a greater lock-in effect and thus defensibility.
Julian Lehr • The Power of Defaults
The start of an idea
Alexander Riezebeek • 3 cards
The atom is Nature’s”building block” out of which she erects an oak tree or a pine, a rock of sandstone or granite, a mouse or an elephant.
Napoleon Hill • The Law of Success: In Sixteen Lessons
The hypothetical genes that caused meme replication by imitation would also have to specify whom to imitate.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Anthropology
Sarah Kokernot • 1 card
Billions of years ago, some single-celled creatures realized that being just one cell left your options pretty limited.
Tim Urban • A Game of Giants — Wait but Why
Tout ce qui existe dans l’univers est le fruit du hasard et de la nécessité. Démocrite
Jacques Monod • Le Hasard et la Nécessité. Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de la biologie moderne (Sciences) (French Edition)
sparked speculation that there may have been an ancient time, before the advent of proteins, when ribozymes ruled catalysis.