Pioneering SpiritAn open letter to Lin-Manuel Miranda on the last, best hope to save the republic
Sir, The hour grows late. The President asserts the right to govern by decree. Worse, the Congress has ceded its constitutional prerogatives, neglecting to protect its power of the purse and even the sanctity of its chambers from executive overreach. Charles I chuckles from the grave. In this dark and doom filled hour, one hope remains: the power of story, aided and abetted by unassailable songs stirring up this country’s frayed and nearly forgotten faith in this experiment in self-governance...
Pioneering SpiritApplied research questions on the past, present and near future of government operations
by Patrick Atwater
Pioneering SpiritListening Before We Speak
Written by the Patchwork Protocol in collaboration with Patrick Atwater
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Pioneering SpiritAn open letter to Lin-Manuel Miranda on the last, best hope to save the republic
Sir, The hour grows late. The President asserts the right to govern by decree. Worse, the Congress has ceded its constitutional prerogatives, neglecting to protect its power of the purse and even the sanctity of its chambers from executive overreach. Charles I chuckles from the grave. In this dark and doom filled hour, one hope remains: the power of story, aided and abetted by unassailable songs stirring up this country’s frayed and nearly forgotten faith in this experiment in self-governance...
Pioneering SpiritApplied research questions on the past, present and near future of government operations
by Patrick Atwater
Pioneering SpiritListening Before We Speak
Written by the Patchwork Protocol in collaboration with Patrick Atwater
Subscribe to Pioneering Spirit
>200 subscribers
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Here's a simple model of two types of new things.
Prime numbers are famously hard to find but have an incredibly simple algorithm. Any number that is only divisible by 1 and itself is prime.
The platypus breaks beyond existing categorization. Not a mammal or a bird, the platypus both lactates and lays eggs.
Some innovations are like prime numbers. There's a known unknown path that can be incredibly difficult to transverse but still follows a well understood algorithm.
Think: Moore's law, Jensen Huang at Nvidia, or Toyota's Kaizen model.
A platypus by contrast upends old categories and creates a new model. Such innovators can come out of left field.
Think: Steve Jobs creating the personal computer or smart phone or Airbnb refactoring hotels.
Here's a simple model of two types of new things.
Prime numbers are famously hard to find but have an incredibly simple algorithm. Any number that is only divisible by 1 and itself is prime.
The platypus breaks beyond existing categorization. Not a mammal or a bird, the platypus both lactates and lays eggs.
Some innovations are like prime numbers. There's a known unknown path that can be incredibly difficult to transverse but still follows a well understood algorithm.
Think: Moore's law, Jensen Huang at Nvidia, or Toyota's Kaizen model.
A platypus by contrast upends old categories and creates a new model. Such innovators can come out of left field.
Think: Steve Jobs creating the personal computer or smart phone or Airbnb refactoring hotels.
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