👋 On time for your weekend: a round-up of this week's 21 remarkable stories at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design, and #culture.
📚 Reading
The Great Acceleration:
We are once again falling in love with technology, but that love is deeper now because we know the truth about technology much better than one or two centuries ago ... The pandemic is not the beginning of the Chinese century. It is not the end of globalization or the return of socialism. What is starting today is a new age of technological wonder, the Great Acceleration.
😍 Love, actually—Bruno Maçães
Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe:
The period of the early twentieth century was an era of building in the broadest sense, from universities to government agencies to cities to highways. The byproduct of this period of building is maintenance and we haven't figured out how to meta-maintain—that is, how to avoid emergent sclerosis in the stuff we build.
🤯 A True Renaissance Man—Noahpinion
Climate Change Will Reshape Silicon Valley As We Know It:
For investors and entrepreneurs, there is a clear call to action: Work on stuff that matters, invest in solving problems, and make a real difference in people’s lives. There’s no doubt that climate tech is the new frontier in venture investing, and solving a global crisis will require the best of what we have to offer.
😉 And not only Silicon Valley, I wager—Tim O'Reilly, Wired
🎧 Listening
Companies $ Culture: What You Do Is Who You Are
A value is what you believe and what you aspire to. A virtue is what you do. From a chief executive perspective you want to think through, not just what you want but also how you're gonna get it. And when you talk about culture, people go: "here is what I want and I just tell people". And that never happens, and you know what your culture is: hypocrisy.
Ben Horowitz—a16z
Transformation Sprint:
[D]esign thinking, service design, design sprints, UX design, CX design, product design... I think it would be better to bring them together under something which said: "actually, what we are about to design is the future. We are the Future of Business department and our job is to design sustainable futures for the organization."
Haydn Shaughnessy—The Wicked Podcast
The Metaverse:
The online world isn't about a singular place. Just as HTML and the web stands on common standards, there is this [Metaverse] that is a unifying technology, and yet it many, many different experiences that are independently operated. Some of which are gated by paywalls, some by invitation, but they are all broadly connected.
Matthew Ball—Tomorrow with Rovio
👷🏻♀️👷🏻♂️Our Work
The sister newsletter, this time focussing on ecosystem design decisions—The NTWK.
How to innovate in the passion economy at next week’s R&D Innovation Conference—LinkedIn
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