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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
In 2006, billionaire technology investor John Doerr announced that “green is the new red, white and blue.” He could have stopped at “red.” As Doerr himself said, “Internet-sized markets are in the billions of dollars; the energy markets are in the trillions.” What he didn’t say is that huge, trillion-dollar markets mean ruthless, bloody competition
... See morePeter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
As the British had discovered to their grief in steel, it is almost impossible to maintain a technology edge amid declining production, and the huge new refineries and pipelines in Texas and California were inevitably a generation ahead of the Standard’s.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
since newsprint is a sixth of all U.S. paper production:
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
No longer, for example, would a company be able to take out a business loan based on projected future revenues from depleting an aquifer.
Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Adam Wiggins • Human-Computer Interaction // Metamuse podcast episode 6
Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information
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