A short article with a high concentration of new-to-me knowledge. “Nick Rowe points out that if a central bank wants to control the economy’s price level, it needn’t issue any actual money—it can just edit the dictionary every morning, announcing […]
Read on if this seems interesting: “innovation is the child of freedom and the parent of prosperity.” Available as a podcast and a transcript. | part 1 and part 2
Two things caught my eye here. First, this is led by KFC Russia, which is entertaining. Second, they used the term “crafted meat products”, which I hadn’t heard before. I suspect there’s a consumer challenge with something called “lab grown […]
This is from late May. Founder of both, Nick Kokonas, “explains his businesses’ pivots on Eater’s Digest.” | learn more
“The soil beneath our feet is alive with electrical signals being sent from one plant to another, according to research…” | learn more
This is from the same lab that managed to create urine tests for lung cancer. Amazon stuff in the pipeline of science! | learn more
“If you’ve ever permanently lost a checked bag, your stuff probably ended up for sale at a store in Scottsboro, Alabama.” | learn more
So far there are only two medicines shown to work effectively: “In clinical trials, Gilead’s remdesivir reduced the time it took patients to recover; dexamethasone, a steroid, prolonged survival in the sickest patients in a study conducted in the U.K.” | learn […]
“After many years of being a very vocal advocate for the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) technique, in the majority of companies I meet, I have stopped recommending the practice.” | learn more
A short blog post with some examples of Jacobi’s maxim in action. | learn more