Innovation - Super Cities

Super Cities №256—America’s "Socioeconomic Decay"

In a society where everything is political, perhaps someone should take up the unsexy but all-important cause of socioeconomic decay.

Geopolitics

Super Cities №248—How To Read September's Jobs Report

"Unemployment Rate, at 3.5%, drops to a 50 YEAR LOW"

Future Of Work

Super Cities №241—Outside Perceptions, Inside Realities

It has taken me years to become good at a few things. Just don't ask me to operate a train, cook a dish, or fix an HVAC. Respect to those who do.

Climate Change

Super Cities №233—Why Germany is Breaking Its Golden Rule

According to Munich Re AG, insurable losses from fires, floods, and storms doubled last year. By its estimates, climate-related losses topped $140 billion in 2018. Climate costs will skyrocket in the coming decades as the world becomes insufferably hot, crowded, and urban.

Podcast

Super Cities №232—How PwC Innovates (Podcast)

Did you know that PwC is the fifth-largest privately owned company in the United States?

Podcast

Super Cities №222—How Hopkins Innovates

Hopkins researchers have made significant breakthroughs in water purification, genetics, and space exploration. The university is known as a giant in the fields of life sciences.

Innovation

Super Cities №219—Why We Should Go Home

Young people should explore the world. They should experience and learn from it. But wouldn't it be great if they could, as thriving professionals, bring those experiences back to the communities that raised them?

Innovation

Super Cities №217—Innovation Is Not Only For Young People

In this world, wisdom – the type that comes from age and experience – is a competitive advantage.

Innovation

Super Cities №216—How To Pick A Co-Founder

In a savagely competitive world, the difference between great and very good is much, much larger than the difference between very good and good.

Geopolitics

Super Cities №211—Where the 21st Century is Happening

Cities combine up-and-to-the-right growth, intractable day-to-day problems, and shifting lines of authority between the public and private sectors.

Tech

Super Cities №208 — The World's Software Utilities

In the 21st century, utilities – both public and private – are society's hard shell and soft underbelly.

Business

Super Cities №202—Cities Slow-Fast Future

Cities are mostly incremental, but occasionally, there are dramatic changes to the places we live and work.

History

Super Cities №200 — Why the Next Revolution is Different

For the first time in human history, the economic base – and especially those hurt by an otherwise favorable trend – has real-time access to information that can increase its future earning potential dramatically.

Innovation

Super Cities №198—CALLING ALL DEFIANT ONES

Before Eminem sold 100 million records, a powerful prevailing narrative stopped people from recognizing his greatness.

Investing

Super Cities №196 — Why Price Matters

Warren Buffet is frustrated. He wants to make an "elephant-sized" investment, but for the notoriously frugal investor, stocks are priced too high to justify it.

Mental Models

Super Cities №195 — How One Billionaire Makes Decisions

Innovation has one key thing in common with investing: the winners make smart, non-consensus bets.

Innovation

Super Cities №191 — The Myth Of Better Chances

I've met thousands of people who claim they want to be entrepreneurs. Very few ever do it.

Business

Super Cities №190 — Tough Love, Chicago-Style

RXBAR had a mega-exit, but they didn’t rely on any silly startup gimmicks. No “lean” BS and no “hacking.”

Innovation

Super Cities №173 — Meetings by Elon Musk

“Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value. It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.”

Innovation

Super Cities №172 — Starving Female Founders

Out of the $130 billion raised from venture capital firms in 2018, all-male teams received 76%. All-female teams received 2.2%.

Atlanta

Super Cities №171 — Atlanta’s Big, Defining Moment

In Atlanta, “Black entrepreneurs have discovered the best tech scene in the country.”

Super Cities №165 — Write More, Challenge More, Fear Less

The strange thing about my public writing is that, although it is short, informal, and real-time, every essay is deeply personal.

Business

Super Cities №160 — Make Business Boring Again

One of the problems with the Silicon Valley-style startup culture is the misguided belief that innovation must be sexy.

Business

Super Cities №161 — To Innovate, Forget Business. Study History.

To understand the ride-sharing market, an entrepreneur should become an expert on the history of city-based transportation, which would provide her with a deep appreciation and respect for the many challenges of moving people around cities.

Innovation

Super Cities №158 — Part Two: Hard Things, Accountability, and The Slow Death of American…

“…Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”