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As intelligence saturates the matter and energy available to it, it turns dumb matter into smart matter. Perhaps what I should say is that intelligence is more powerful than cosmology. That is, once matter evolves into smart matter (matter fully saturated with intelligence), it can manipulate matter and energy to do whatever it wants. This perspect... See more

Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections

In my opinion, a technological/economic/institutional architecture that can coordinate economic activity in a way that makes the firm superfluous, deconcentrates ownership and control over vital networks, and broadly distributes economic surplus to network participants according to transparent, fair and relatively fixed rules, is the killer app. Th... See more

Will Wilkinson • Is Crypto Bullshit? - by Will Wilkinson - Model Citizen

One of the things I do around the edge of the portfolio is mess with the energy weight. Some of this is old habits — most of my option trading career was being active in oil and gas. But I also see energy as fundamental to the concept of inflation and inflation is the largest tax on investment returns. I actually see the core of our portfolio not a... See more

Kris Abdelmessih • Inflation Replicator

Pierce, to put it simply, was asking himself: What about Bell Labs’ formula was timeless? In his 1997 list, he thought it boiled down to four things: A technically competent management all the way to the top. Researchers didn’t have to raise funds. Research on a topic or system could be and was supported for years. Research could be terminated with

Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

The Nobel laureate particle physicist Frank Wilczek once said that beauty exists as a dance between opposite forces. First, he said, beauty benefits from symmetry, which he defined as “change without change.” If you rotate a circle, it remains a circle, just as reversing the sides of an equation still reveals a truth (2+2=4, and 4=2+2). But beauty ... See more

Derek Thompson • What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture

What is your 20 percent that if you went all-in on, you’d become 10x more valuable and impactful? What are the few things you do and the few people you work with that produce most of your success and excitement? What is your 80 percent that is keeping you grinding away, and ultimately a distraction for your biggest future jumps?

Dan Sullivan • 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less

L’atomisation sociale est en grande partie la conséquence de découvertes scientifiques, d’innovations technologiques et de mutations économiques sur lesquelles nous avons peu de prise et que nous avons renoncé à comprendre tant elles nous semblent complexes. Ces processus qui nous échappent se présentent à nous sous le nom de « mondialisation » ou

Raphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)

Cities whose economic-development strategy is a corporate-capture strategy are typically those whose economic development director and planning director don’t talk to each other. The smart cities, like Lowell, hire a director of planning and development, who is first charged with creating a city where people want to be. Rather than trying to land n

Jeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

To me, the most natural fit here for both art and science is the "innovation-as-mining" hypothesis. In that hypothesis:The basic dynamic is that innovation in a given area is mostly a function of how many people are trying to innovate, but "ideas get harder to find" over time.

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Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections

Will Wilkinson • Is Crypto Bullshit? - by Will Wilkinson - Model Citizen

Kris Abdelmessih • Inflation Replicator

Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

Derek Thompson • What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture

Dan Sullivan • 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less

Raphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)

Jeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?