The Chatter: The Chatter for Sunday, June 15

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“Noncompetes are a dampener on innovation and economic development.”

Paul Maeder, co-founder and general partner of Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with offices in Boston and Silicon Valley. Noncompete clauses in employment contracts are now appearing in fields beyond the worlds of technology, sales and corporations with tightly held secrets, where the curbs have traditionally been used.

“Noncompetes reduce the potential for poaching.”

John Hazen, chief of Hazen Paper, a company in Holyoke, Mass., that spends heavily to train workers on sophisticated machinery and elaborate papermaking processes.

“In many cities and even suburbs, it’s becoming much easier to organize your life car-free or car-lite.”

David A. King, assistant professor of urban planning at Columbia University. By car-lite, Dr. King means that instead of having one car for every driver, households can increasingly get by with owning just a single vehicle, thanks in part to tech-enabled ride-sharing services like Uber.

A version of this list appears in print on June 15, 2014, on page BU2 of the New York edition with the headline: The Chatter.