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Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
As Matt Clancey points out that “the benefits of knowledge spillovers from being physically close to other knowledge workers have been falling and may no longer exist in many domains of knowledge.” This is a controversial claim, but Clancey provides a detailed review of multiple studies that address this matter from different directions.
Dror Poleg • Dror’s Substack | Substack
Zoning is losing its power. New ventures are able to reach a meaningful scale before regulators (and competitors) react. The boundaries between different uses are blurring, with people lodging in apartment buildings, living in hotels, working in restaurants and retail malls, and sleeping or socializing at the office.
Dror Poleg • Dror’s Substack | Substack
Bill Bernbach’s letter of resignation from Grey in 1947, warning about the hidden costs of scale is the best thing I've read this year https://t.co/QNGwf1qF5h
There is a non-linear relationship between the age structure of vegetation and the intensity of fires. Fifty-year-old trees burn fifty times more intensely than twenty-year-old trees. However, because of the power of influential residents living in the Malibu region, since 1919 the local policy has been one of ‘total fire suppression’. This means t
... See moreJohn Urry • What is the Future?
The saddest thing that can happen to a startup is for nobody to care when it disappears.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
faster churning of companies in and out of the S&P 500, the death of news and the newspaper, the failure of established
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
‘The basic behaviour mode of the world system is exponential growth of population and capital, followed by collapse… Under the assumption that population and capital growth should not be deliberately limited but should be left to “seek their own levels”, we have not been able to find a set of policies that avoids the collapse mode of behavior.’