SIMON REYNOLDS
One of my favorite things I've written in the last 15 years or so, is this demolition job on what I called "recreativity" - a.k.a. "everything is a remix", a.k.a. "copying is cool", a.k.a. "there's no such thing as originality"So it was funny to see this well-worn mission statement recycled in...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK03 :: Approximate Thinking ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. On Incomplete Knowledge, Identities, and Social Inertia In this part of the “Edge of Knowledge” exploration, we go after a weird truth: approximate thinking is the operating system of knowledge,...
SIMON REYNOLDS
I had a very interesting and jolly chat with Adina Glickstein for the arts magazine Spike on the subject of nostalgia and retrokultur, touching on many topics including techbro futurism and the Zone of Fruitless Intensification. The whole Spike issue is themed around nostalgia and related subjects...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK02 :: Incompletness, Gödel, Polanyi, You! ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. What if the very core of knowledge is not certainty, but incompleteness? Let’s continue the provocative journey from the optimism of Hilbert’s program, his dream of a perfectly...
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Anderson’s Beautiful Cage When does a signature become a cell? Wes Anderson’s films—Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and the Roald Dahl shorts—carry a lucid, coherent identity of color, framing, and quirk. In Asteroid...
vkirov
On August 24, 2011, Apple’s co-founder and visionary leader Steve Jobs resigned as Chief Executive Officer due to ongoing health issues. This moment marked the end of a remarkable chapter in Apple’s history and the broader world of technology. Jobs remained as Chairman of the Board, while Tim Cook...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK01 :: Uncertainty, Bohr, Heisenberg ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. In this episode, we navigate the nature of uncertainty, not as a modern inconvenience, but as an essential feature of reality, knowledge, identity, and creativity. What if uncertainty is...
philipjkerr
The British Council likes innovation. For over 20 years they have been handing out ‘ELTon’ awards to celebrate ‘innovation in English language teaching and learning’. Last year, to mark their 90th anniversary, they organised the ‘ELTons Festival of Innovation’. As part of this, they produced a...
andrew
This post focuses on one of the points covered in the Far Phase board training session on Generative AI, and complements the previous posts on AI risks concerning hallucinations (making mistakes) and intellectual property. There seems to be a new AI tool every week, and that every month a big...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E014 :: Disney – How to Create Markets out of Imagination & Culture ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. Disney transformed storytelling into a logistical and emotional empire.. How did this happen? Who is Walt Disney, and what is Disney, really?What can...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E013 :: Escher’s Vision – The Creativity of Integration & Transformation ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) In this Creativeness Dive, we embark on a reflective journey into the intricate universe of M.C. Escher—the...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E012 :: Decoding Leonardo Da Vinci: The Creative Polymath ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) The Polymath.A man beyond discipline—blurring lines between painting and physics, anatomy and poetry, mechanics and music. He...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E011 :: The City’s Alchemy : Systems of Innovation, Disparity, and Creativity] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) “Cities are places with pollution, crowds, and inequalities… Yet most people on the planet fight for a chance...
Maximilian Speicher
Tales of Design & User Experience (ToDUX) #15 ⁂ Dear readers & friends, So, you might have noticed by now that “research done wrong in industry” is kind of my pet peeve, and I’m sorry you have to endure that. However, I’m not quite done with the topic yet. My new article in The UX...
philipjkerr
If you were watching the 2024 Qatar World Cup, you may have noticed the brand Byju’s, among the list of official corporate sponsors alongside Visa, Adidas, Coca Cola and McDonald’s. You may have also noticed the pitch-side adverts for Byju’s, which flipped to read ‘The Future of Learning’. You may...
Abhijit Jana
In the rapidly evolving world of technology, the journey from a software engineer to a tech leader is both challenging and rewarding. It’s a path marked by continuous learning, strategic thinking, and a shift from individual contribution to empowering teams. In this post, we’ll explore the key...
Adam Nash
A happy engaged couple in their 20s before they figure out how to integrate their finances… (July 2001) Living a healthy financial life is far more difficult than most people believe. For most of us, our education in personal finance is relatively limited. We learn some from our parents and our...
Adam Nash
This blog post was also published on Daffy.org Steve Jobs famously talked about connecting the dots of your life in his now well-known commencement speech in 2005. There’s something incredibly insightful and at the same time humbling about that framing as a founder when you look at the...
Adam Nash
One of the reasons that I am so passionate about entrepreneurship is because of my belief that companies can be highly effective agents of change. This isn’t just a feature of technology companies built in Silicon Valley. Vanguard is an inspiring example, headquartered in Malvern, PA. They are...
Adam Nash
When I first joined Greylock at the end of 2011, Fintech wasn’t even a word that was commonly used in the venture capital community. Less than a decade later, however, Fintech has become almost ubiquitous. The category has not only proven that it can generate real revenues and scale, but also that...
afinetheorem
I never discuss my own research on this website – it’s more fun (for me at the very least!) to dive in to the great results the rest of the economics community produces. So I hope you’ll forgive me for breaking this rule today, as I want to show a few interesting, very time-sensitive results...
Adam Nash
Source: Deseret News, Jan 24, 2020 On January 23, 2020, Clayton Christensen passed away at the age of 67. I found out about his passing during my commute home from work on Friday, and it left me reflecting deeply on my experiences with Clay. I enrolled in his class back in 2000 at HBS, and was...
Adam Nash
One of the fond memories I have of my first two years at LinkedIn was coming into the office almost every Sunday to spend a couple of hours with Reid Hoffman. Our conversations covered a wide range of topics, but the time ensured that we were fully aligned on the strategy of the company and the...
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Occasionally, the Nobel Committee gives a prize which is unexpected, surprising, yet deft in how it points out underappreciated research. This year, they did no such thing. Both William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have been running favorites for years in my Nobel betting pool with friends at the...
Adam Nash
Every time I go to the CODE Conference, I learn something new. There is something about watching some of the most prominent technology executives and founders responding to questions from talented journalists that gets me thinking. Four years ago, I wrote about the transition technology CEOs...
Adam Nash
Over the course of my career, I’ve been fortunate enough to work in a variety of different functions. No matter whether it is engineering, design, product, or service, every role has its own unique set of requirements and challenges. Maybe that’s why I have always believed strongly that software...
Adam Nash
As the father of young children, I can tell you that there is a special place in my heart for restaurants that provide puzzles and crayons for small children to pass the time. On a recent trip out to The Counter in Mountain View, Jordan (who is 8) was really struggling with a large maze puzzle on...
Adam Nash
“Every day stuff happens to us. Jobs arise in our lives that we need to get done. Some are little jobs, some are big ones. Some jobs surface unpredictably. Other times we know they’re coming. When we realize we have a job to do, we reach out and pull something into our lives to get the job done.”...
Adam Nash
In 2016, voice-based interfaces exploded into the imagination of the startup community as a potential new consumer platform. Amazon deserves much of the credit for this radical shift, as the Amazon Echo seemed to jump the chasm from early adopters to a more mainstream market. Of course, voice has...
Andrew Maynard
Elon Musk – CEO of Tesla Motors – has just revealed the second part of his master plan for the company. And it’s a doozy. Not content with producing sleek electric cars (which to be fair, was only ever a stepping stone to greater things), Musk wants to fundamentally change how we live our lives....
Andrew Maynard
If you’ve been following this month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), you’ll know with absolute certainty that the future is cool, shiny and stuffed to the brim with “must-have” gadgets. Reading the ebullient reports, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything other than overflowing optimism for how...
Andrew Maynard
On December 21, the company SpaceX made history by successfully launching a rocket and returning it to a safe landing on Earth. It’s also the day that SpaceX founder Elon Musk was nominated for a Luddite Award. It’s an odd juxtaposition, to say the least. The post If Elon Musk is a Luddite, count...
Andrew Maynard
In October 2014, Google announced it was working on an innovative nanotechnology-based approach to avoiding and managing disease. The idea was to create a pill that would deliver magnetic, functionalized nanoparticles from the gut to the bloodstream. Once there, they would circulate — presumably...
Andrew Maynard
What have technology innovation, haiku, and this summer's blockbuster-in-waiting Jurassic World got in common? The answer: a short book of haiku on responsible technological innovation that a group of colleagues helped put together last summer. The post The Poetry of Innovating Responsibly...
Andrew Maynard
Last Thursday, the second annual University of Michigan Innovation In Action competition concluded, with six stunning student pitches for startups that could make a significant dent on the health and well-being of communities. It was a great example of what can be achieved at the intersection of...
Andrew Maynard
The World Economic Forum's 2015 top 10 emerging technologies reflect the tremendous potential of technology innovation. Yet to build a resilient tech-based future, we need new ideas, new research and new tools that will enable us to realize the benefits of technology innovation, while keeping us...
Thomas Petersen
Facebook and Twitter seems to be unbeatable and companies are feeling the pressure to establish themselves in the social space to get a piece of the traffic pie. But is the price of traffic really worth the trade-off? Whether you’re a newspaper, publicly traded on the stock exchange, small...
Thomas Petersen
I admit that I am not the superstitious type. Superstitions have never resonated with me as my mind simply doesn’t grasp the idea of something unnatural. It is, therefore, with some reluctance that I use words like ‘ghost’ and ‘immortals’ here. However, they are useful to explain my thoughts on...
Thomas Petersen
When Sony introduced the PlayStation in 1994, it wasn’t at all obvious that they would be successful. Nintendo and Sega were already in fierce competition and, although their arena was the 16-bit market, they were much more experienced in selling consoles and games. One of the features that was...