“So… how are you supposed to explore other ideas if you’re also supposed to be saying “no” to anything that diverges from The Plan? Here’s what I do: I never say “no.” But I carefully qualify “yes.”” | learn more
I’ll take this opportunity to publicly admit I was dead wrong about Apple’s business prospects when Steve Jobs died. Oops! “The industrial engineer has turned Steve Jobs’s creation into a corporate colossus, delivering one of the most lucrative business successions […]
“Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch.” | learn more
Pietro Invernizzi: “I thought I’d dig a bit deeper, to come up with a big list of unique companies & ideas for everyone interested in the wider space, adding a couple categories to Merci’s & CB Insight’s maps and adding […]
“The hedonometer is based on people’s online expressions, capitalizing on data-rich social media, and measures how people present themselves to the outside world.” | learn more
“To be blunt, it looks like the lack of democracy under British rule was a key component of Hong Kong’s ascent. The policies worked wonders, but they never became democratically self-sustaining.” | learn more
“She was given a large dataset of echo-sounding data – profiles of depth to the seafloor collected by research vessels traversing the oceans. The data were presented on rolls of paper, tens of meters long, and Marie was given the […]
From Vinod Khosla: “12–15 entrepreneurs, driven by entrepreneurial energy and passion for a vision, could change the climate crisis into societal transformation.” | learn more
The modern view of food as building blocks & fuel misses part of the picture. “[D]eep in the detailed pages of journals such as Cell Host & Microbe and Nature Reviews Endocrinology, a profound transformation is occurring in scientific ideas […]
I regularly allow my children to immerse themselves in dirt, and luckily this study makes me feel great about it. “Finnish researchers just published the first big test of the “biodiversity hypothesis”—that exposure to the microbes in dirt is good […]