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#063 Turning Discoveries Into Companies with Sam Arbesman of Lux Capital

Smart Friends

CHAPTER

The Half-Life of Facts

The Half-Life of Facts is a book about how knowledge changes over time. It's very difficult to predict individual things, but when you look at a large mass as a system, patterns start to emerge that are actually predictive of the outcome. And it turns out you can do the same kind of thing with trying to understand how knowledge changes.

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