A few things to read about and questions to consider:

Real Estate/Location Intelligence

• Site Planning using Location Data: How Starbucks uses GIS to plan their next store location
• Starbucks Site Selection Analysis Based on GIS Method

• Esri 2014 UC: Starbucks Coffee and IT

• Confirmed: Starbucks knows the next hot neighborhood before everybody else does

  • Spencer Rascoff on Quartz (Zillow)
• A Harvard Study Says Starbucks Moving Into a Neighborhood Is Associated With Rising House Prices (Here’s the Catch. Well, Several Catches Could it be that people crave simple things? Or could it be something else?

• How location data helps in site planning and revenue prediction

• How to Use Spatial Analysis In Your Site Planning Process

• CityLab Daily: How 2020 Reshaped Our Cities
• Comptia Tech Town Index 2020

• The transformative buildings set to shape the world in 2021

• Google Trends for Moblie home, Tiny home, School bus

Data/AI

• Using GitHub Data to Construct a Software Development Activity Map of the World

• See Interest over time on Google Trends for leetcode – Worldwide, 2004 – present –

• AI: From ZERO to H…aving A Lot of Questions (Part I)
• AI: From ZERO to H…aving A Lot of Questions (Part II)

Business History

• 2019 Annual Letter By Chamath Palihapitiya

• Gilded Age (Wikipedia)

• American business history (Wikipedia)

• Economic history of the United States (Wikipedia)

• Stock prices dow jones since 1789

• Money Raised in US IPOs (in Billions)

• Hindsight is 20/20

History

• Explore the History of Chess, From Ancient India to the Cold War Rivalries
• A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 14 May 1743

Books

• Books Ray Dalio Recommends
  • Bridgewater Research and Insights
• Global History Books
• Even in the Age of Amazon, Why Are Some Independent Bookstores Succeeding?

Writing

• Why Everyone Should Write

Random Miscellaneous