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Clarke’s three laws

Posted in Footnote, Literature

British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke’s three laws. These so-called laws are:

  1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

(wikipedia.org link)

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Software is eating the world

Posted in Essays, Footnote

Marc Andreessen penned his famous “Why Software Is Eating the World” essay in The Wall Street Journal in 2011. Today, the idea that “every company needs to become a software company” is considered almost a cliché. No matter your industry, you’re expected to be reimagining your business to make sure you’re not the next local taxi company or hotel chain caught completely off guard by your equivalent (techcrunch.com link)

Original essay by Marc Andreessen “Why Software Is Eating the World” (a16z.com link)

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Death of a salesman

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Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in the 1940s New York told through a montage of memories, dreams and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a travelling salesman who is disappointed from his life and appears to be slipping into senility. The play contains a variety of themes, such as the American Dream, the anatomy of truth, and betrayal (wikipedia.org link)

Cover art by: Death of a Salesman First edition cover, Viking Press

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Unicorn startups

Posted in Footnote, Mindset

In business, a unicorn is a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion (investopedia.com link)

CrunchBase Insights: The Complete List Of Unicorn Companies (cbinsights.com link)

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