Culture & History

A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow

You may be surprised to discover that in the past 10 years, overall venture capital return is zero, according to a conversation between Clayton Christensen (Innovator’s Dilemma) and Marc Andreessen (a16z) (a must see video here from StartUp Grind Conference in 2017 Redwood City). It may be even more

On the recent college admission scandal, author Michael Locke McLendon (The Psychology of Inequality) argues “the idea that some have climbed to the top through their own merit is an aristocratic ideology, not a democratic one, therefore meritocracy caused the college admissions scandal.”   In his article, Mr. McLendon referenced French

Our bodies are built to run but not to find water. Therefore our need to exchange information about the location of water have evolved us to become more successful than apes.  In his book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making

In today’s AI era, I revisited the once-hyped concept Gene and Meme, the idea that we are vehicles driven by these two replicators, who care less about the vehicle’s (ours) own well-being (meaning) but thrive for mere replication. A book called “The Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in

Tim Wu’s new book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, has stirred up heated debates on corporate’s bigness in today’s digital economy. Here are two different point of views based on his recent op-ed on the New York Times in this subject. Nicole