Diversity of backgrounds and ideas. Nothing is more important on the cutting edge.
Using the historical settlement of migrants as a source of exogenous variation in local ancestry, we show that U.S. counties more exposed to knowledge from a given foreign country absorb substantially more technologies from that country and, in turn, invent significantly more U.S. technologies building on them.
The Causal Effect of Foreign Ideas on U.S. Innovation – Marginal REVOLUTION
https://kottke.org/26/11/stunning-image-of-our-satellite-choked-night-skies
70 years ago there was none. 50 years ago there were about 400 satellites. Today 20,290!!!
https://keeptrack.space/live-count/how-many-satellites-are-in-space
“There’s no way to write fiction and guarantee your readers will understand it correctly. There is no way you will ever be able to write something so straightforward that Elon Musk will understand it the way that you intend it.”
Ted Chiang: “There’s no way to write fiction and guarantee y…
Or in Wilkinson speak, “I don’t know what you said but this is what I heard”.
