You Are Not Late
Kevin Kelly | 4 minutes
Because from our perspective now, the greatest online things of the first half of this century are all before us. All these miraculous inventions are waiting for that crazy, no-one-told-me-it-was-impossible visionary to start grabbing the low-hanging fruit — the equivalent of the dot com names of 1984. Because here is the other thing the greybeards in 2044 will tell you: Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 2014? It was a wide-open frontier!
Snippets
When science divides reality up into disciplinary parts and deals with them separately, it reveals a lack of understanding of reality as a whole, as a system.
- Russell Ackoff, A Lifetime of Systems Thinking
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity.
- Craig Mod, Looking Closely is Everything
PS: Apologies for sending this issue a day late. I had a busy day yesterday and completely forgot. And yes, the title of today’s main article made me chuckle. Have a good weekend!
- Louis