“You are 25 year old interested in a career in investment management. A genie appears offering you one of the following (with all the learning, networking, benefits, etc… auto populated into your background). Which do you think best improves your […]
From Bill Gates: “In 1950, the world made roughly as much steel as cement (a key ingredient in concrete); by 2010, steel production had grown by a factor of 8, but cement had gone up by a factor of 25.” | learn […]
“Infrastructure spending is broadly popular, which is likely why this new “infrastructure” bill has a decent amount of bi-partisan support. This is also why so many projects that have nothing to do with infrastructure are framed in such dishonest terms.” | learn […]
“Many of our country’s problems are reducible, in one way or another, to the fact that we have lost the imperative to transform the physical world.” | learn more
“A few hundred years ago, Cosimo Medici kickstarted a financial empire. At that same time he began a grand tradition of patronage, of Donatello most notably.” His kids provided patronage to Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Where have all the […]
An essay by David Perell where he argues that a belief in God underpins everyone’s basis for human rights. Though he’s an atheist, his commitment to human rights means he’s, “implicitly committed to Christian ideas—or at the very least, a […]
Michael Pollan suggests we’ll need a cultural framework to guide our nation’s relationship with drugs now that “just say no” is no longer our guiding principle. He points to the many indigenous cultures that have used ritual to keep useful […]
So many reasons. “Not only are these projects inordinately expensive, states and localities are not even attempting to build particularly ambitious projects. The US is the sixth-most expensive country in the world to build rapid-rail transit infrastructure…” | learn more
“After digging around a bit, I was fascinated to learn that independent researchers were fairly common in the 18th and 19th centuries… These days, if you say you work in research, most people assume you work in academia.” | learn more
What happened when Andrew Carnegie funded ~1700 free libraries? “Sometimes obvious ideas work. If you want to encourage more innovation, give people better access to knowledge.” | learn more