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The Economist has a great article on why many of Europe’s top companies are Nordic.
The region has 0.3% of world’s population (~27m) but contributes 1% of GDP.
Top names include:
▫️LEGO (Denmark): World’s top toy maker by revenue.
▫️IKEA (Sweden):... See more
Reaching wide audiences requires all-terrain language, and the urgency of the present moment, amplified by chronological feeds, doesn’t allow for much stylistic variety. Efficiency is key — compressing as much information as possible to the least amount of words is the ideal of all communication.
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How Japan ignored climate critics and built a global natural gas empire
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Every six hours, somewhere in the world, an LNG shipment controlled by a Japanese company leaves a port. However, these tankers are only the tip of the iceberg
A thread... See more
coordination and Infrastructure Tales
So beautiful
Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.
— Neil Strauss
Demystification versus Understanding
ribbonfarm.com
Excerpts:
To demystify something is to understand it to a level where you no longer feel anxious about your ignorance.
To understand something is to have the same priorities as experts regarding that something.
Expertise is, in a sense, a consensus of priorities.
Expertise also comes with taking many basic things for granted. So when radical changes happen, sometimes it is the naive novice, wrestling with the basics, who ends up innocently asking the right questions.
Leverage and Influences
This talks about value capture by focusing on the most critical point of leverage
A map, in other words, is an arrangement of symbols into a system of meaning — and we use maps because we understand the language of signs that undergirds them. If the mapping of space was a human invention, she explained, one could also invent a means of mapping time.
Susan Schulten • Emma Willard's Maps of Time
Knowledge expands in a fractal manner. All the new knowledge is found in the cracks that are on the edge of the ever-expanding plane.
To study in crystallized fields, seek out institutions. Communities of practice in new fields.