The Newton Post

Finanza, Tecnologia, Successo.

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Google now

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"Maker" (Scattata con Instagram)

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Remix is a part of life

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A. Hitchcock vs Angry birds (Scattata con Instagram)

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Pivot: Change STRATEGY without change VISION

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Il design visto da Dieter Rams (Braun designer)

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A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station ... And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light.

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Future.

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The mockups are more interesting than the supposedly legit (and extremely blurry) pics of the new Maps app. The mocks seem inline with what I had heard about the 3D element of the revamped Maps app: “Cool, but you’re not going to use it that often.”

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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 14 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 14 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s.

Class 14 Notes Essay—Seeing Green

I. Thinking About Energy

Alternative energy and cleantech have attracted an enormous amount of investment capital and attention over the last decade. Almost nothing has worked as well as people expected. The cleantech experience can thus be quite instructive. Asking important questions about what went wrong and what can be done better is a very good way to review and apply many of the things we’ve talked about in class.

A. The Right Framework

How should one think about energy as a sector? What’s an appropriate theoretical framework?

Revisiting the 2x2 matrix of determinate/indeterminate and optimistic/pessimistic futures may be useful. To recap, here are examples of those respective quadrants:

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The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

- Ingvar Kamprad