reinventing the American capitalism one pyramid scheme at a time
================= “Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it’s imperfect, but we’re stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don’t...
View Articlehumans can do it so quietly
================= “The worst thing about falling to pieces is that humans can do it so quietly.” inkskinned tumblr =========================== “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are...
View Articleworking with a competent incompetent blowhard
=========== “I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.” Eric Clapton ========== “Not everything is about you,” Clary said furiously. “Possibly,” Jace said, “but you do have to admit that the...
View Articlehard to be always the same person
==== “It’s hard to be always the same person.” Dorothea Tanning ==== the epigraph for ‘A Table of Content’ Dorothea Tanning’s first book of poems — A friend, W. S. Merwin, said of Tanning: “She goes...
View Articleimagining the potential
=== “Not even the human imagination satisfies the endless emptiness of the soul. “ Allen Ginsberg === nicesuggestions: let the stardust inside your veins shine bright and light up the lives of...
View Articlethe day I said “I worry we are killing the next generation of business thinkers”
========= “The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like. Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we’re still going to live in a...
View Articleavoiding the attraction of avoiding
========= “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” Jean de La Fontaine =================== “But I live elsewhere; it is only that the attraction of the human world is so...
View Articleicebergs and thoughts
=================== “Her sentences were icebergs, with just the tip of her thought coming out of her mouth, and the rest kept up in her head.” Gregory Galloway ==================== “A foolish...
View Articlelittle but big & 100
================ “You’re little but you’re big.” —– Pretty Little Liars ===================== “The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.” Georg C....
View Articledistribution revolution (technology) & productivity
=========== “Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.” Amit Kalantri ===================== Author’s note: I originally published this in 2018 and decided...
View Articledistribution revolution of meaning, work & knowledge
===== “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de...
View Articlethe advantage of the incomprehensible
=========== “The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.” Paul Valéry ========== “The moment you decide an event is impossible and therefore stop directing your...
View Articlefluff and fold (aesthetics and value)
======= “Aesthetics is the shop window, ultimately, if there’s nothing in that shop, it has no longevity, do you know what I mean?” Geri Halliwell ———————- Well. Of all people in the world I never...
View Articleholes and kids
=== “And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” <Beyond Good and Evil> Friedrich Nietzsche === Well. This is mostly about being different. Well. Actually. Maybe this is...
View Articlethe conceptual age
========= “To be in a state of self-control, a person must know: what he/she is supposed to do, what he [or she] is actually doing, what choices he/she has to improve results wherever necessary. If...
View Articlethis is not the great america
Earlier today I reshared my thoughts on the lack of civility in political rhetoric and how that fosters an environment of violence – either unacted upon violent thoughts or actual violent actions. I...
View Articlethe more things change the more they stay the same
First. Because I am involved in business I am constantly inundated with the buzzwords associated with the “new and unique” and all the pontificators (jesters) who spout them and how people are...
View Articleoutlines are often vague and, yet, there is some certainty
=========== “The world is not as simple as we like to make it out to be. The outlines are often vague and it’s the details that count. Nothing is really truly black or white and bad can be a disguise...
View Articlehappy 30th MTV
Today, August 1st, is the anniversary of when MTV was ‘born. In 1981 it shared its first video and the VJs (video jockeys) became a thing. It seems like only yesterday that I was in graduate school...
View Articlewhere the line is between solid confidence and overestimated ego?
——————- “Have more than you show, Speak less than you know. “ William Shakespeare ——- “If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better … you know? “ Keith Richards...
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