🔮 Ideas about ideas; weak ties at work; cleaning lithium up; mental time travel & crumbling buildings ++ #329
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Ideas about ideas
🧠 Carlota Perez’s writing on techno-economic revolutions was instrumental for me in the writing of my forthcoming book Exponential. Her ideas are big and insightful — I quote them a lot and spoke to Carlota on the podcast a few years ago.
Enter John Danaher…