Patrick Atwater | 🌱🚴3🌐 (patwater)

As I prepare to go back to work next week after baby bonding leave...

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Hey, my silly blog made marginal revolution today! https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/an-open-letter-to-lin-manuel-miranda-on-the-last,-best-hope-to-save-the-republic

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I’m loving the daylight computer and press reader news combo

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The bittersweet and often broken relationship between Venice and Byzantium feels like a good parallel with tech and CA gov today Venice - virtual warehouses (Amazon analogy) - trader ethic - networked - small, agile, nimble - ships -> naval power Byzantium - center of the world (think landholders) - guardian ethic - center - 10x the resources - walls, army -> hubris Playing around a bit and may elaborate more in the future. There is definitely something there in Venice's innovations in norms aka breaking the rules in trading with the infidels and Byzantium's complacent focus on owning land rather than scrappily trading for advantage

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