Very cool to see indievc is back! 🙌 Also interesting that investment #1 is on a standard SAFE. At Calm Company Fund 🦭 we've had a similar experience and the majority of deals we've done recently have been on a SAFE + a Shared Earnings side letter (in the event that the business become

'When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty'. Why? Because they joined up what already exists.

Big idea! Just in time to counter the culture of scaling and incrementalism, and why the theory of Disruptive Innovation might just come back stronger than ever: bryce.medium.com/were-selling-e… Hats off to Bryce Roberts

I never understood grown-ups’ fascination with unicorns #startuplife

VC’s calling the people of their portfolio companies’ ‘family’.. when their real families are longing for their presence.

To understand the workings of AI, we must understand their input data, and to understand the data, we must understand humans. Because all data are socially constructed, interests and biases included.

This makes me curious about any tension between AI and Culture, especially if culture is drawn toward authenticity and distinctiveness. ChatCPT has a 'style' that is recognizable to the human eye.

Doing interesting things for interesting people is as much a purpose via Russell Davies ft. Nicholas Walt, L. Cornelissen & Son

'AI transformation': 1. Do you use AI to transform your organization? 2. Or do you transform your organization to make it work with AI?

We thought data was about the future, but really it's about the past. Shoutout Mark Pollard Roger L. Martin

We thought design thinking was dead, but then came the data aftermath. Here are some thoughts on why hedging human-centered design is a bad idea linkedin.com/pulse/why-hedg… #strategy #design #innovation

We thought strategy creation was for MBAs, but really it’s for sociologists, ethnographers, philosophers … medium.com/@tor/strategy-… #strategy

Scholars point to human-AI collaboration as "the key managerial issue of our time" as humans are entering the loop of AI en masse and organizations are re-designing to make humans and AI work together in effective and ethical ways. linkedin.com/pulse/why-hedg…

The paradox of automation and why improvements in technology can lead to worse results Via Tim Harford in FT

Still one of the most relevant definitions: Sustainability refers to the ways we can meet “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland, 1987). #Sustainability

🎉 Launching online today: "Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500." Dive into our large-scale interactive visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. 🧵 calculatingempires.net

Have a point of view that's true to what you build. Spot-on Dan Martell