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8 Sustainability ideas that will change the world
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· Diving into some of the most innovative ideas across retail, city planning, policy, technology and construction. Ideas that will truly change the way we thin... · Shared by 86
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Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
Ars Technica
3 min read · · Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser. · Shared by 227, including Andra Keay 🐳 @robotlaunch@mstdn.social, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽 #CES2023, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder@mastodon.online, Matteo Carbone, Sebastien Meunier, Lauren Goode, Paul J. Adam, John Koetsier, Azeem Azhar, Rob Moffat, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, ipfconline #CES2023, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Daniel Jalkut, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Manu Kumar (recruiting @HiHello 🚀), Chris Isak , Jennifer Ouellette, Marsha Collier
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Betting on Things That Never Change
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4 min read · · Amazon launched 22 years ago this week. Its first web page shows its early days: What’s neat about this isn’t what’s changed. It’s what’s stayed the same. The line, “One million titles, consistently… · Shared by 283, including ⛓ José Luis Núñez ⛓, Peter Herger, Arturo Rebolledo
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The World Is Run By People No Smarter Than You
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3 min read · · Shared by 412, including Tracy Lee | ladyleet, Peter Herger, Ines Bieler
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How Open Source is eating AI
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8 min read · · Why the best delivery mechanism for AI is not APIs · Shared by 284, including Albert Ràfols, Robert Scoble, Tim, @arnicas@mstdn.social, Soumith Chintala, Thomas Telandro
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Betting on Things That Never Change
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4 min read · · Amazon launched 22 years ago this week. Its first web page shows its early days: What’s neat about this isn’t what’s changed. It’s what’s stayed the same. The line, “One million titles, consistently… · Shared by 283, including ⛓ José Luis Núñez ⛓, Peter Herger, Arturo Rebolledo
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The End of Excel?
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8 min read · · How Notion, Coda, and Airtable are chipping away at Microsoft's monopoly · Shared by 243, including Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Matthew Guay, Nathan Baschez 📧
Ars Technica
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
Ars Technica
3 min read · · Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser. · Shared by 227, including Andra Keay 🐳 @robotlaunch@mstdn.social, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽 #CES2023, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder@mastodon.online, Matteo Carbone, Sebastien Meunier, Lauren Goode, Paul J. Adam, John Koetsier, Azeem Azhar, Rob Moffat, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, ipfconline #CES2023, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Daniel Jalkut, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Manu Kumar (recruiting @HiHello 🚀), Chris Isak , Jennifer Ouellette, Marsha Collier
Harvard Business Review
4 Types of Innovators Every Organization Needs
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~12 min read · · Every company strives to be innovative, but most are missing key ingredients. How can you identify which ingredients your organization needs — and which employee styles can fill in the gaps? The… · Shared by 216, including davidabrock, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Antonio Vieira Santos - #SPS_Live
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Rasmus Ankersen: How to outthink your competition
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· Does success come from luck or skill, and how do you tell the difference? One way to find an answer: think like a pro gambler does, says football executive Rasmus Ankersen. Using sports analytics to… · Shared by 172, including Memen Isimo, Elena Neira, Ines Bieler
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The opportunity to be wrong
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1 min read · · History is filled with examples of people who made errors in judgment. The executives at Decca that turned down the Beatles, the CEO at Digital who said that no one would ever need to have a comput… · Shared by 170, including LARRY ELKAN, Katja Evertz, Patrick Sanwikarja
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Social vs. Science Experiments
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~12 min read · · Or, why progress curves in AI and web3 look different · Shared by 142, including Megan Quinn
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Steve Blank A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale
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6 min read · · An edited version of this article previously appeared in the Boston Consulting Group’s strategy think tank website. I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 company offsite watching them grap… · Shared by 130, including davidabrock, Alex Osterwalder🇨🇭
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Creative Problem Solving: from complex challenge to innovative solution
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5 min read · · When facing a difficult dilemma, Creative Problem Solving offers a structured method to help you find an innovative and effective solution. · Shared by 2527, including Stephanie A Kowalski
Visual Capitalist
Sharpen Your Thinking with These 10 Powerful Cognitive Razors
Visual Capitalist
10 min read · · The average adult makes about 35,000 conscious decisions each day. Given this sheer volume of choice, how do we ensure we’re making the right decisions, day in and day out, without becoming exhausted?… · Shared by 2416, including Howard Getson, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Michael Carroll, Râmësh varma
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Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'?
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~16 min read · · A growing and influential intellectual movement aims to understand why human progress happens – and how to speed it up. Garrison Lovely investigates. · Shared by 1573, including Jeff Jarvis, Tactical Tech, Miguel Angel Escotet, John Nosta
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Old thinking will break your brain.
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~20 min read · · Why updating the way we look at the world is so critical now, and so hard, and how we can get better at doing it. · Shared by 1232, including Prof Michael E. Mann, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Katja Evertz, Dr. Genevieve Guenther @DoctorVive@mastodon.energy, Ines Bieler, Michelle Boisson, Alexandria Villaseñor is at #COP27!, David Wallace-Wells, Akshat Rathi
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Chaos surfing: from surviving to thriving in chaotic times
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5 min read · · Chaos surfing teaches us to embrace chaotic times and to let go of the illusion of control, going from paralyzing anxiety to thriving curiosity. · Shared by 1154, including Alyssa C, Ines Bieler
TIME
100 Best Inventions of 2021
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· Groundbreaking innovations that are making the world better, smarter and a little more fun · Shared by 1059, including Marius Bleuer, Oliver Raduner, Digg, Gisele Navarro, Tauno, maxadorno, Vala Afshar, Steve Case, Tarik ESSAADI, Ekaterina Walter, Reid Hoffman, Gabriele, Jansnet, Eghosa Omoigui
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"Most important century" series: roadmap
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5 min read · · This is an outline of how each piece in the "most important century series relates to the overall argument. I think it's useful to read through this before reading through the series, to get a sense… · Shared by 900, including Jonathan Kogan
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The Metaverse in 2040
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20+ min read · · Experts are split about the likely evolution of a truly immersive “metaverse.” They expect that augmented- and mixed-reality enhancements will become more useful in people’s daily lives. Many worry… · Shared by 809, including Katja Evertz, dreig (Dolors Reig), Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Jonathan Kogan, Richard MacManus, Benedict Evans, Chris Skinner, Bill Johnston, yeon, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Kirk Borne, William El Kaim, Matt Navarra, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, Ross Dawson
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How to come up with good business ideas
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· This was recorded on Monday, February 7th for Cohort #3 of The Minimalist Entrepreneur Course.You can learn more about the book this content is based on here... · Shared by 780, including Oliver Raduner, StanChan, Bernie J Mitchell 🎙, yeon
