PinnedOliver Beige·Dec 25, 2020Milton Friedman and the surprising rationality of treesIn one of the most famous essays of 20th century economics, one of its most famous protagonist offers an astounding hypothesis on tree…
Oliver Beige·Dec 25, 2025Die OrnamentfabrikUm sieben Uhr ertönte die Pfeife. Seit dreiundvierzig Jahren ertönte sie jeden Morgen um sieben Uhr, obwohl niemand genau sagen konnte, was…
Oliver Beige·Dec 15, 2025The Ornament Factory: ContainmentThe whistle blew at seven. It had blown at seven every morning since the founding, and it would blow at seven every morning until the…
Oliver Beige·Dec 14, 2025The Ornament FactoryThe whistle blew at seven. It had blown at seven every morning for forty-three years, though no one could say precisely what it signaled…
Oliver Beige·Aug 29, 2025LLMs and organizationSome two years after the emergence of large language models (LLMs) based on Generative AI, the prospect of “Artificial General…A response icon1A response icon1
Oliver Beige·Dec 11, 2024Venture Capital and MoneyballOr why most venture firms still aren’t optimizing their operations.
Oliver Beige·Apr 24, 2024Generative AI and combinatorial optimization, part 2: Why text-based image generators can’t render…Language and chess are two of the best-known domains for combinatorial reasoning, and they share the fundamental property of all…
Oliver Beige·Apr 10, 2024From the cornfields in Iowa to Silicon Valley: A short history of the technology adoption curveIf you had Ames, Iowa on your bingo card for hotbeds of innovation research — Bingo. The technology adoption curve (aka the most important…A response icon2A response icon2
Oliver Beige·Apr 3, 2024Generative AI and combinatorial optimization, part 1: Why image generators can’t set up chess…Language and chess are two of the best-known domains for combinatorial reasoning, and they share the fundamental property of all…A response icon2A response icon2
Oliver Beige·Mar 17, 2024The attention-seeking rational actorIn which we establish an underlying model for human behavior and claim that all economies are just a variation of the attention economy.
