Founder essays — adapted for students who are ready.
Drawn from the graduate synthesis at sorendeorlow.vercel.app and the journal of innovation at longitudinal.ai. Full essays are being adapted; titles below are the planned starting set.
From the Newton to the iPhone — what failure built.
How the Apple Newton's failure formed a foundation for the iPhone's market success. A first-principles look at what carries forward when a product flops.
An Ethical Compass — six principles to guide future innovation.
Adapted from the proposal at Longitudinal.ai. How to make ethics a precondition of design, not a postscript to it.
How Walmart bent the supply chain — and what came after.
Operations management as a force for low prices, and the post-pandemic stress that exposed the limits of optimization.
Multiple models, one transition — reading customer behavior.
Leveraging multiple machine learning models to gain insights into evolving customer behavior during the transition to a post-pandemic new normal.
Reflections on SB 1047 and frontier AI regulations.
Reading regulation as design constraint. How students should think about working inside the rules being written around them.