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Software companies cannot know in advance which person will come up with an outlier idea or make an outlier contribution. But they can afford to bet on thousands of potential star individuals. And that’s exactly what they’re doing.
The Talent Portfolio
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Richard Whelan’s biography of Joseph Kennedy, The Founding Father, had a special impact. I was starting Yale College when I read this book, and as a Jewish student subject to a fair amount of social discrimination, I identified with what he had experienced as an Irish Catholic student at Harvard.
The Stoic Capitalist
Robert Rosenkranz
I think by externalizing ideas. I think in conversations with people, I think when I write and I am now thinking with botwick and Findings. Persistent context (plain text files for memory short and long term) + tools + autonomy → continuous collaboration → action. A shared working surface between you and agents. All of a sudden the possibility space is wide open.
16 Betaworks Founder Letter, Reintroducing Botwick
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