How to see markets beyond the curve, catch weak signals, and anticipate turnarounds to leverage change and disruptions
While the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has supported national startups with $5.5 billion since 2015 to try and reboot this historically sluggish sector, their current outputs have been anything but satisfying. And if a few tech startups like Anduril Industries have thrived, Pentagon bureaucracy still ends up...
The term "involution" has recently appeared more and more in China. At the core of the issue is China's manufacturing overcapacity issue, which has built over two decades of global trading with the West, and how it developed in a flood of cheap goods that benefit...
Elon Musk just announced he plans to counter cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. To get there, he wants to completely overhaul the century-old manufacturing logic pioneered by Henry Ford, where the car moves along an assembly line. Instead, he's envisioning an unboxed approach...
Zach Seward (editorial director of AI initiatives at The New York Times) just gave a a cogent and educated deep-dive on how artificial intelligence has been (mostly) ill-used by media up to now, and (in a few cases) remarkably well. AI news that’s fit to printHow news organizations are...
Kayak, the travel booking aggregator app, has been offering a filter for a few months now that allows you to include or exclude certain planes from your travel research. This means that a great number of customers have been more than happy to filter out the Boeing 737 Max. Some...
I discovered a long, fantastically written, and deep article from 2019 on Design Thinking and the story of IDEO from x in 2019. At this point, you're probably bored to death by these discussions, and the few of you still using this methodology have understood its limits and...