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