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But this sort of omnivorous eclectic mindset, which is very much what the SFI is, that is an aspect of physics that has been built into the genome of the SFI. That’s what would be necessary to be able to go after those kinds of aspects of conventional economics, which are just sitting there and have been for over half a century. Nobody’s actually
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
@Noahpinion No.
The research arm of Bell Labs was never about moonshots.
It was about hiring the best scientists into small departments (typically 5 to 15 people) and giving them resources and a *lot* of freedom to work on what *they* deemed most promising.
That's how you get breakthroughs.
Yann LeCunx.comvaledictory
Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel
The things that are going to be valuable are the things you can’t teach or copy.”
Packy McCormick • Differentiation
This
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Traction is growth. The pursuit of traction is what defines a startup.
Gabriel Weinberg • Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
In 2010 Steven Johnson writes in his excellent Where Good Ideas Come From: The great driver of scientific and technological innovation [in the last 600 years has been] the increase in our ability to reach out and exchange ideas with other people, and to borrow other people’s hunches and combine them with our hunches and turn them into something... See more