Institutions and PowerExtensões
The power to recognise talent
The Thiel Fellowship, the Academy and the contest for educational authority. The future of education also depends on who will have the authority to recognise talent.
Institutions and Power
Some projects die of premature exposure. They become visible before they become solid.
Institutions and PowerPrecision notes
Illegible power needs a surface
Sewn into the lining of a work jacket sold for $252 is a message from Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar. The company's illegible power needed a surface — and found it in merchandise.
Institutions and PowerFoundational essays
Belonging Cannot Scale Without Degrading
Some institutions fail at the exact moment they appear to triumph: belonging does not scale without degrading, and what sustains it is curation, not demand.
Institutions and PowerExtensões
Visa and the Architecture of Invisibility
Dee Hock understood it before anyone else: an organisation’s maturity is measured by its invisibility — and Visa is the architecture that proves it.
Institutions and PowerFoundational essays
The War of the Future Will Be Decided by Technology Companies, Not Just Armies
In the twenty-first century, military advantage is shifting towards the technological architecture that compresses the time between perception and decision.
Institutions and PowerFricções
The Invisible Centre of the Organisation
Organisations do not fail because of the strategy they define; they fail in the gap between definition and execution.
Knowledge is Powerful, Be Powerful.
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