👋 On time for your weekend: a weekly round-up of stories at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design and #organisation that stood out.
📚 Reading
The great unbundling:
Software is remaking everything from cars to pharma - technology and innovation will be much more widely spread. For that and lots of other reasons, tech is becoming a regulated industry, but if we step over the slogans, what does that actually mean? Tech is entering its second 50 years.
🤔 But into what will it rebundle?—Benedict Evans
Trends aren't trendy:
Entrepreneurs are the demiurges of the startup ecosystem. They’re the ones who have the real predictive power in terms of trends: the ability to create them ... Entrepreneurs are driven by faith, and faith is the thing that can move mountains. Sometimes, even, that faith can create mountains.
🚀 Create the future you want to see—The Family
Road Kill on the Information Highway:
Although the shifting fortunes of companies within the computer industry are naturally quite important to those of us who are participants, the effect on the world at large has actually been rather modest. The confluence of wide area digital communications and ever cheaper computing is going to be a lot more traumatic and far ranging than PCs have been.
📟 Creating the future. In 1993—Nathan Myhrvold
🎧 Listening
The Groves of Misinformation:
[Pandemics] are perfect examples of so many things. If you want to explain globalisation, interconnectedness of the planet, things like justice and logistics, and the technical, scientific side and exponential growth. All those things I would teach about SARS.
The Professionalization of the Creator Economy:
We predicted there would be this 'other Hollywood' class; a class of creators that would exist outside of the Hollywood ecosystem .. There's a probably a ton of people that should be in this Hollywood but aren't, because they didn't know the right people, they didn't look the right way, or whatever else.
Joshua Cohen—Means of Creation
How to Build a Personal Monopoly:
How to start building your Personal Monopoly: Diverge- collecting the dots Converge- connecting the dots Emerge- sharing what you've learned.
Jack Butcher & David Perell—Youtube
👷🏻♀️👷🏻♂️Our Work
Adriana’s introduction to platforms; short, simple and a bit playful—Youtube
One of the perks of dwelling in the platform innovation community: a 15% discount to the live Entrepreneurial Platform Innovation program—Part 1, Part 2 (promo pik2021)
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