Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Ben Barry
benbarry.com
Brian Moore — artist / creative director
brianmoore.com
Engineer Paul Baran made a number of breakthroughs that are relevant to the public, decentralized technologies to this day, including “message blocks” (a component in blockchain technology) and advocacy for private digital networks via cryptography.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
While BBN was a private research firm and the CMU Robotics Institute was technically an academic group, when it came to operations and incentives, the two had more in common with each other than they did with many fellow companies or academic researchers. Both were:
- Novelty-seeking
- Committed to building useful prototypes and technology for users, not
Eric Gilliam • Everything Old is New Again: Old research models for new-era semiconductor research
the Marshall Plan
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
I was friends with Debra Larsen and Bruce Bockmann (who was Morgan’s most playful partner, choosing once, when I was a young associate, to introduce us to a new client with our roles reversed)