John Hanke: “I think that the transition to spatial computing is one of those big, fundamental changes. It’s like the internet, or mobile smartphones . . . we saw companies come in with products and fail a few times before these things became what they are today: fundamentally part of our lives. I think AR and spatial computing are on that same trajectory.”
David Perell has 28 pieces of life advice on his 28th birthday. Some of it: “1. Block off 90 minutes in your calendar every morning to work on the most important thing. Wake up early if you need to. Don’t compromise. 2. If you’re writing and feel the need to use an exclamation point, you subconsciously know your words aren’t vivid enough. Don’t compensate. Drop the exclamation point and rewrite the sentence. 3. If you want to explore a new skill, don’t just consume information. Do the thing too. If you want to learn about music, don’t just listen to a lot of music. Play it too. Every activity has indescribable aspects you can only discover in the course of action.”
William McGurn: ““Superabundance” challenges today’s orthodoxy that resources are finite. Messrs. Tupy and Pooley invoke the notion of “time price,” or how long it takes to earn the money necessary to buy an item, to show that things are getting cheaper—which wouldn’t happen if resources were becoming more scarce. A factory worker in 1850, for example, had to work two hours and 50 minutes to buy a pound of sugar, while his counterpart today has to work only 35 seconds. Multiply that by similar gains in hundreds of other resources and commodities, and the result is “superabundance.” But it isn’t only about having more stuff. It’s a metaphysics of wealth. The book’s fundamental claim is that by almost any measure you care to choose—health, life expectancy, education, daily caloric intake—we are living in what Simon once described to me as an “epidemic of life.” And it’s all because of human creativity.”
PwC: “New research shows that starting and stopping smaller projects contribute at least as much to performance as making big, business-level decisions and deals.”
