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Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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  The incumbent manufacturers will never carry aviation into a supersonic age, because they have stopped building new aeroplanes at all.

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  Well, no. They're not even building new airplanes anymore, let alone innovative new airplanes.

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Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.

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  A model can produce version two of a product that already exists, but the genuinely new version one still has to be made by people.

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  Because an opinion-based thing on highly innovative, differentiated stuff, it doesn't have a model for that. There's not that stuff in there. You got to You still need the very version one to be done.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Inventing the Renaissance

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  Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, and a leading historian of the Renaissance, and last year, she published her magnum opus, Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning book about so much more than history

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Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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  AI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge.

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  we see the difference between the great engineer and an an average engineer is still two 3x in terms of their capability. They're more inquisitive. they're at the bleeding edge more, they're more innovative,

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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  Small studios are the future of gaming: the genuinely new ideas come out of them, and the big studios acquire rather than generate them.

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  Small studios are the future of gaming. The big studios basically acquire the small studios for new IP and ideas, and the small studios grow in. The really compelling, new, innovative ideas are gonna come out of small studios.

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Co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management; author of the Oaktree memos.

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  Nobody can yet know whether the current enthusiasm for AI is excessive, so anyone claiming conviction about how it resolves is overreaching.

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  Given the vast potential of AI but also the large number of enormous unknowns, I think virtually no one can say for sure.

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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  The worst part of programming is already knowing the solution, when the day holds no unknowns and the work is only typing it out.

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  And for me, that is the worst part about programming, is when you already know the solution and it's just a matter of how fast you can type and get it out from your head to your hands.

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Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.

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  Brainstorming together produces no more ideas and no better ones than having people generate ideas privately before sharing them.

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  the research on like brainstorming where all brainstorming together the research shows that brainstorming does not produce more ideas or more innovative ideas. And I think teams would be and groups would be better having individuals generate their own concepts and then after they've done it independently and privately sharing it with the others.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Builders reject new building systems rationally: a change to the process raises the odds of a catastrophic overrun by more than the innovation can save.

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  A new or innovative system that involves changes to the process thus incurs a significant risk penalty that would likely exceed the expected benefits of the innovation.

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