What Bygone Absurdities Can Tell Us About Our Future
Here’s a question: over the next decade, what are you going to make absurd?
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Frankenstein, unfortunately, is the dominant myth of our era. It follows this pattern: a mad scientist invents a robot, AI, drug, mutant, new dinosaur, financial asset class—mortgage-backed...
View ArticleThe Big Shrug: Both Democrats and Republicans Accept Tech Stagnation in Medicine
Republicans and Democrats wholeheartedly believe that progress in medical innovation is grinding to a halt. Without at any hint of controversy, they both expect that within the next two to three...
View ArticleThe Rising Silver Tide: Aging as Counter Current to Innovation
Sometime in 1952, Imo started having problems: strange humans were offering her food and spying on her. As a two-year-old female Japanese macaque on Koshima Island, she typically ate a wide variety...
View ArticleEnd the NCAA's Long Con: Why Student-Athletes Should Be Paid and the Higher...
I’m waiting for some enterprising journalist to write an exposé of college football and basketball, and college sports generally, because it’s an underreported aspect to the higher education bubble.
View ArticleRaising Funding for a Start-Up: Should I Ask an Investor for Advice or Should...
There's an adage in Silicon Valley that if you want money, you should ask for advice; and if you want advice, you should ask for money. Since both start-up founders and venture capitalists are aware of...
View ArticleThe City As Startup
Detroit appears to be in hospice. The city's bankruptcy in July unleashed a torrent of commentary on the origins and causes of its decline. It could have been the cold. No universities. It could...
View ArticleNew Bay Bridge Is All Yawn And No Awe: Bring Back The American Technological...
Jerry Brown, Governor of California, was out of town. It was Labor Day, after all. There were no fireworks. The half-marathon was scrapped. The authorities had cancelled the pedestrian parade. Just...
View ArticleThe Future Of The College Experience: Lowering The Debt To Party Ratio
With the launch of Calico, Google has shown it is not afraid of death. But higher education appears to be another story. The search giant crouches into a quiver and lowers its head before the almighty...
View ArticleThe Ivy League Has Perfected The Investment Banker And Management Consultant...
With due respect to Nietzsche, who said otherwise, the way does exist and Ivy League grads have found it. Or at least that’s what you would think talking to them about “the path.” Not a path, but the...
View ArticleWhat Bygone Absurdities Can Tell Us About Our Future
Here’s a question: over the next decade, what are you going to make absurd? This is one of the questions we ask every finalist for the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship. To get a sense of what we’re after,...
View ArticleFrankenstein Vs. Pinocchio and the Future of Innovation
Frankenstein, unfortunately, is the dominant myth of our era. It follows this pattern: a mad scientist invents a robot, AI, drug, mutant, new dinosaur, financial asset class—mortgage-backed...
View ArticleThe Big Shrug: Both Democrats and Republicans Accept Tech Stagnation in Medicine
Republicans and Democrats wholeheartedly believe that progress in medical innovation is grinding to a halt. Without at any hint of controversy, they both expect that within the next two to three...
View ArticleThe Rising Silver Tide: Aging as Counter Current to Innovation
A Japanese Macaque on the cover of Life. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Sometime in 1952, Imo started having problems: strange humans were offering her food and spying on her. As a two-year-old female...
View ArticleEnd the NCAA's Long Con: Why Student-Athletes Should Be Paid and the Higher...
MIAMI GARDENS, FL - JANUARY 07: Head coach Nick Saban of the Alabama Crimson Tide celebrates with the trophy NCS Coach's Trophy after defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the 2013 Discover BCS...
View ArticleRaising Funding for a Start-Up: Should I Ask an Investor for Advice or Should...
Emily Post on Sand Hill Road There's an adage in Silicon Valley that if you want money, you should ask for advice; and if you want advice, you should ask for money. Since both start-up founders and...
View ArticleThe City As Startup
The future of urban development? Detroit appears to be in hospice. The city's bankruptcy in July unleashed a torrent of commentary on the origins and causes of its decline. It could have been the...
View ArticleNew Bay Bridge Is All Yawn And No Awe: Bring Back The American Technological...
The new $6.4 billion span of the Bay Bridge Jerry Brown, Governor of California, was out of town. It was Labor Day, after all. There were no fireworks. The half-marathon was scrapped. The authorities...
View ArticleThe Future Of The College Experience: Lowering The Debt To Party Ratio
English: Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google Inc., and booster of the college experience (Photo credit: Wikipedia) With the launch of Calico, Google has shown it is not afraid of death. But...
View ArticleThe Ivy League Has Perfected The Investment Banker And Management Consultant...
With due respect to Nietzsche, who said otherwise, the way does exist and Ivy League grads have found it. Or at least that’s what you would think talking to them about “the path.” Not a path, but the...
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