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Venture studios win by driving cash on cash returns, ideally faster than typical investors.

本記事では、これからの働き方を予期させるオフィス〈CIC Tokyo〉のオープニングイベントの様子と、設計にあたった小堀哲夫氏（小堀哲夫建築設計事務所）がオフィスの設計ポイントを解説する動画をお届けする。〈CIC Tokyo〉の設計を担当した小堀氏も、プレゼンテーションに登壇して設計意図を説明。〈CIC Tokyo〉が入る虎ノ門ヒルズビジネスタワーの立地特性や江戸時代から続く都市構造を読み解き、「新旧が融合して多様性を生み出す」をコンセプトにしたことを説明。 細胞（CELL）が分裂・結合していく生命体のようにオフィスの姿を描き、さまざまなかたちのオフィス空間をつくるために「ボロノイ・グリッド」を導き出した。

Tech power players and the global far-right are learning all the wrong lessons from “The Lord of the Rings.”

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Retiring at just 69 after two decades on the Supreme Court, the justice left a legacy of case-by-case judging, intellectual rigor and a complete lack of pretension.

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So, Mallory Ringess had a son.  Many great men do, but often the son himself does nothing great enough to warrant a story being told about him as well.  Danlo wi Soli Ringess, though, like his father has a singular fate, and around him constellate great people and great events. I’ve never really approved of sequels, even though like most readers I feel pulled to revisit characters and worlds that I’ve come to love.  I knew I Continue Reading

🔌 Episode 8 of The Moonshot Podcast drops on Monday! Energy might just be the ultimate moonshot – because if we can make it abundant, affordable and reliabl...

Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

Essay on fantasy by Ursula le Guin

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Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/mysteriousmagpieI previously posted a 2011 serialisation of Mervyn Peake's Titus books - now here is a 1980s treatment...

The land reform carried out in Japan during the period of American Occupation is often spoken of as one of the most successful of the post-war reforms. It was certainly one of the most thorough going redistributions of land which the world has seen. A third of the total area of arable land change...

This book contains the historically most important discussions of the philosophical foundations of left-libertarianism. Like the more familiar right-libertarianism (such as that of Nozick), left-libertarianism holds that agents own themselves (and thus owe no service the others expect as the resu...

Everyone talks about decentralization—but how, why, and when does it work?

We’re as enthusiastic as ever about the long-term trends in the internet economy. Hopefully you’ll read this letter and agree.

Even though the elites themselves are highly imperfect.  That is the theme of my latest FP column.  Excerpt: Very often when people complain about “the elites,” they are not looking in a sufficiently elitist direction. A prime example: It is true during the pandemic that the CDC and other parts of the government gave us […]

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The nation’s premiere student-edited law journal dedicated to the critical exploration of classical liberal ideas.

This week, I want to keep unloading my Tolkien-related thoughts, turning from last week’s character study to a look at the way ‘magic’ and spiritual power work in Tolkien’s …

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That is the new and fun book by David Hepworth.  It focuses on the careers of rock stars who simply keep on going and do not retire. Can we admit that Paul McCartney and also the Rolling Stones have made the best of this? Here is one bit: Of the ten most-visited graves in the […]

At the same time I started reading economics, at age 13, I also was reading philosophy.  I lived in Hillsdale, New Jersey, but River Vale had a better public library for those topics, so I would ride my bike there periodically and take out books (I also learned about Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis by […]