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Black Lives Matter and My Fear About Short Attention Spans

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As humans, we naturally have short attention spans that are amplified by the extremely short attention span of the media. pic.twitter.com/74SVv8XOqp — Emmanuel Acho (@thEMANacho) June 2, 2020. While I was trying to get my soul to reset a little yesterday, I worried about short attention spans. I’ve finally found an answer.

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1000 Holograms on Your Desk

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Compute is so cheap that with clever techniques even lightweight computers like a Raspberry Pi can be coaxed to run holographic media. In all of the chaos of 2020, it’s a welcome diversion to know that the holographic future is arriving, and I’m delighted to be an investor in a company like Looking Glass Factory that’s making it happen.

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The GameStop Phenomenon

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At the end of 2020, we start at $20 / share. Boomer hedgies getting crushed by young folks self-organizing in social media. I expect we’ll be exploring, unscrambling, pontificating, and dealing with what is happening with GameStop (GME) for a while. 30 days later, it’s at $238 / share with a high of $482 / share.

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Eric Ries’ Foreword to The Startup Community Way

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At the beginning of 2020, I sent Eric a copy of the draft and asked him if he’d write the Foreword. In 2020, startup communities, which once appeared on the landscape of business (as well as the literal landscape) like so many rare animals, are long past the point of being uncommon or even unusual.

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Most Warning Systems Do Not Warn Us That They Can No Longer Warn Us

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First published May 15, 2020.). Because It attacks via the vectors of modernity: trade linkages, obesity, diabetes, air travel, mass transportation, urban density, social media, etc. One of the best was from Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin of SK Ventures (one of our Partner Fund investments ). Greetings-.

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The Future of Transportation

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Some concerns in the media include: Legislation. That would drop the total price under $10,000 by 2020, a reasonable luxury car option. Computational processing is likely another large component of the overall price, and it has a long history of exponential cost reduction. If costs come down, are there other barriers?