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The point is that underlying technologies change, but, after a point, technology market shares don’t change and so they’re highly predictable.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
technology sophistication,
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Timothy Prestero’s “Better by Design.”
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
Jarrod Dicker of the Washington Post had a great insight about the rise of “expensable media” (think Stratechery, The Information, 2PM) and its positive impact on the creator ecosystem. This same effect could fuel a massive expansion in the consumer subscription software market that is compounded by a shift away from the office and its bundled amen... See more
Brett Bivens • Consumer Subscription Trends
Abraham Thomas’s principle that to call macro-trends correctly you have to have “boundless optimism about technology and bottomless cynicism about humans.”
“cultural technology.” In a 2011 address at Stanford Business School,