What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
Summary Kelly takes the unusual view of describing technology as a natural system, much like biology. Technology, like living organisms, has “wants” and can transform and evolve in ways to help it...
View ArticleModern Monopolies by Alex Moazed and Nicholas Johnson
Summary Platform companies generate value by using technology to facilitate exchanges between groups which benefits all sides and helps create new markets and expand old ones. Moazed and Johnson walk...
View ArticleZero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and...
Summary If you’re purely copying someone, you haven’t truly learned from them. Of course, it’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world...
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Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
Summary Navigating in such the uncharted waters of the chasm requires beacons that can be seen above the waves, and that is what models in general, and the chasm models in particular, are for. Models...
View ArticleThe Dream Machine: JCR Licklider and the Revolution that Made Computing...
Summary Licklider was far ahead of his generation in seeing the potential for computers – for making them humane and individual, in democratizing access to information, creating a symbiosis between...
View ArticleThe Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves by Brian Arthur
Summary This book is an argument about what technology is and how it evolves. Technologies are put together from pieces – themselves technologies – that already exist. Technologies therefore share...
View ArticleIncreasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy by Brian Arthur
Summary The idea of increasing returns has come up every few decades but Brian Arthur’s precise and fully-modeled papers caused us to clearly understand what kinds of models have what kinds of...
View ArticleBlitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable...
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh Summary Blitzscaling is when you put speed over efficiency, even in the face of uncertainty....
View ArticleFiber: The Coming Tech Revolution and Why America Might Miss It by Susan...
Summary Susan Crawford goes into why fiber is superior to copper and cable and why it becoming ubiquitous in the US is so important. Key Takeaways What China, Singapore, the Nordic countries, Korea,...
View ArticleThe Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Summary Kidder brings the computer revolution to life by studying life inside Data General Key Takeaways IBM set up two main divisions, each one representing the other’s main competition.Herb Richman,...
View ArticleThe Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon...
Summary “This book is about innovation—about how it happens, why it happens, and who makes it happen. It is likewise about why innovation matters, not just to scientists, engineers, and corporate...
View ArticleModern Monopolies by Alex Moazed and Nicholas Johnson
Summary Platform companies generate value by using technology to facilitate exchanges between groups which benefits all sides and helps create new markets and expand old ones. Moazed and Johnson walk...
View ArticleZero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and...
Summary If you’re purely copying someone, you haven’t truly learned from them. Of course, it’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world...
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Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
Summary Navigating in such the uncharted waters of the chasm requires beacons that can be seen above the waves, and that is what models in general, and the chasm models in particular, are for. Models...
View ArticleThe Dream Machine: JCR Licklider and the Revolution that Made Computing...
Summary Licklider was far ahead of his generation in seeing the potential for computers – for making them humane and individual, in democratizing access to information, creating a symbiosis between...
View ArticleThe Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves by Brian Arthur
Summary This book is an argument about what technology is and how it evolves. Technologies are put together from pieces – themselves technologies – that already exist. Technologies therefore share...
View ArticleIncreasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy by Brian Arthur
Summary The idea of increasing returns has come up every few decades but Brian Arthur’s precise and fully-modeled papers caused us to clearly understand what kinds of models have what kinds of...
View ArticleBlitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable...
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh Summary Blitzscaling is when you put speed over efficiency, even in the face of uncertainty....
View ArticleFiber: The Coming Tech Revolution and Why America Might Miss It by Susan...
Summary Susan Crawford goes into why fiber is superior to copper and cable and why it becoming ubiquitous in the US is so important. Key Takeaways What China, Singapore, the Nordic countries, Korea,...
View ArticleThe Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Summary Kidder brings the computer revolution to life by studying life inside Data General Key Takeaways IBM set up two main divisions, each one representing the other’s main competition.Herb Richman,...
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