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Longtime Intel CEO Andy Grove argued that strategic inflection points are identifiable not by the data available at the time but by a shift in the underlying forces that determine what is possible. The data, he observed, is always about the past. By the time it confirms the inflection, the window for acting on it has often already closed. Apple is at that point now.
~ Isaac Stone Fish via American Affairs

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The show had its première party in New York City in early February. The Times’ Styles section did its glossy treatment of the night, which struck a familiar tone. The wish in a certain class of creative professionals today is to resuscitate the shift in the atmosphere of the nineties, that clash of the louche and the classed, the first gentrifications of downtown—impossible in the fully corporatized Manhattan of today.
~ Doreen St. Félix via The New Yorker

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