Teknoloji inovasyonu için startup şart değil ve her startup da teknolojik bir yeniliği beraberinde getiriyor anlamına gelmez. Belki bunun üzerinde durmakta fayda var. Startuplar, kurumsal projelerde yapılması gerekli olan katma değersiz adımları atlayan ve fikrin ana yenilikçi noktalarına odaklanarak az kaynakla cok is başarmayı amaçlayan bir calışma modelidir. Startuplardan ortaya çıkan oldukça yenilikçi fikirler tabi ki vardir. Fakat her startupın bize teknolojik bir yenilik sunduğunu söyleyemeyiz.

Startuplar inovasyon için oldukça kiymetli modellerdir ve inovasyon ekosisteminin oluşmasında en önemli bileşenlerinden biridir. Teknoloji inovasyonu için ise tek yol olduğunu söylemek doğru olmaz.

Great article on co-living from The Guardian Cities.

I have heard ‘Co-living’ as a popular solution to many issues such as urbanization, loneliness, and housing crisis. This article draws a good picture of the status and future of co-living. I particulary found Matthew Stewart’s opinions valuable. Check it out!

To Matthew Stewart, a researcher and designer at the University of Westminster, co-living led by developers cannot be a radical alternative because it lacks the social intent of collective living. He points to bolder suggestions proposed by modernists almost a century ago to address the interwar housing shortage, such as the work of Karel Teige, a Czech theorist whose 1932 book The Minimum Dwelling proposed restructuring living space around community and collective domestic labour.

Toa Heftiba

From Harvard Business Review

…This electronics company had no clear plan for how projects would transition from the small design lab team back into the core business. They didn’t have a handoff, they had a drop-off. How do you prevent a drop-off? By tailoring each handoff to the teams involved…

From Vox Recode

While low profits haven’t always been something Wall Street has tolerated, they actually form a key element of Amazon’s success. In a way, its low profits are making it more profitable.

From The Washington Post

In their sometimes rundown, often eclectic ways, urban districts offer a kind of visual stimulus – in the form of attractive single people, outrageous outfits, ethnic diversity and eclectic architecture – that has attracted artists and writers for hundreds of years. “City air,” goes an old German saying, “makes one free.

Great article by Jane Clare Jones

New York Times

To avoid congestion, the plan requires efficient mass transit. Mr. Calthorpe has proposed an alternative — autonomous rapid transit, or ART — using fleets of self-driving vans in reserved lanes on main arteries like El Camino Real. Those lanes would allow the vehicles to travel faster and require a lower level of autonomous technology. And the vans could travel separately or be connected together.

Read in National Geographic

From Ian Bicking’s blog