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š The Book in 3 Sentences
āļø How the Book Changed Me
āļø Top Quotes From the Book
- So what makes a real unicorn of this amazing kind? 1. It seems unbelievable at first. 2. It changes the way the world works. 3. It results in an ecosystem of new services, jobs, business models, and industries.
- History tells us technology kills professions, but does not kill jobs.
- Edwin Schlossberg: āThe skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.ā
- It is almost always the case that if you want to see the future, you have to look not at the technologies offered by the mainstream but by the innovators out at the fringes.
- This is my next lesson. If the future is here, but just not evenly distributed yet, find seeds of that future, study them, and ask yourself how things will be different when they are the new normal. What happens if this trend keeps going?
- The way you view the world limits what you can see.
- Remember, putting the right pieces of the puzzle on the table is the first step toward assembling them into a coherent picture.
- Having the right orientation matters. But even then, it had taken years to explore the landscape sufficiently to fill in all the blank spaces on the map.
- Replacing Ownership with Access.
- āIdeas are a dime a dozen. Itās implementation that matters.ā The future isnāt just imagined. It is built.
- Keep waiting for the missing pieces of the puzzle to arrive. Even if you arenāt the one to push that boundary, once someone does it successfully, thereās a huge opportunity for a fast follower. Be ready!
- Over time, as networks reach monopoly or near-monopoly status, they must wrestle with the issue of how to create more value than they captureāhow much value to take out of the ecosystem, versus how much they must leave for other players in order for the marketplace to continue to thrive.
- Simple, decentralized systems work better at generating new possibilities than centralized, complex systems because they are able to evolve more quickly. Each decentralized component within the overall framework of simple rules is able to seek out its own fitness function. Those components that work better reproduce and spread; those that donāt die off.