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Mervin Kelly, Jim Fisk, William Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and William Baker.
Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
New titles might not have increased his influence. By the start of the 1960s Baker was engaged in a willfully obscure second career, much like the one Mervin Kelly had formerly conducted, a career that ran not sequentially like some men’s—a stint in government following a stint in business, or vice versa—but simultaneously, so that Baker’s various
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But even with that rapid catch-up by Chinese players, there’s no question that as of this writing, the most experienced self-driving technologists still call America home.
Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Anthony Hobday—Product designer
anthonyhobday.comIn Australia, a new branch of engineering is being established by the cultural anthropologist and futurist Genevieve Bell at the 3A Institute to explore the ethics of what we’re creating.
Tiffany Shlain • 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
Defining "AngelList" is tricky. AngelList isn't just one company. Technically, three separate entities leverage the brand: AngelList Venture, AngelList Talent, and AngelList India. That's without mentioning businesses that spun out from the company, including Republic and CoinList. Or, indeed, Product Hunt, which AngelList owned between 2016 and 20
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But today there are more people "helping the builders" than actually building, fighting one another in a zero-sum game for allocation in competitive deals. Incredibly, being an investor has become one of the highest status jobs in Silicon Valley — higher even than playing an important operating role at a great company. This has led to an over
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