The Forest
no matter how hard we try to be humane and ethical in our small businesses, we hit a wall real fast when we’re still trying to operate within the vocabulary and architecture of conventional marketing.
from Writing With the Sword - Lesson 1 by Simone Grace Seol
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Although many have tried many times, it is not really possible to command scenius into being. Every start up company, or university would like their offices to be an example of scenius. The number of cities in the world hoping to recreate the scenius of Silicon Valley is endless, but very few have achieved anything close. Innumerable art scenes beg
... See morefrom Scenius, or Communal Genius by Kevin Kelly
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- If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag everythin... See more
from Create things that come alive
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Pretty much every marketing tactic is built around treating people as a means to some end (making money). In fact, Kant struggled much of his life with the ethical implications of capitalism and wealth inequality. He believed that it was impossible for anyone to amass a fortune without some degree of manipulation or coercion along the way. Therefor
... See morefrom The One Rule for Life by markmanson.net
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Visa’s founding CEO Dee Hock had a realization. He saw clearly that it was “beyond the power of reason to design an organization” capable of coordinating a global network of financial transactions of the sort that had started to develop.7 Yet, he also knew that nature regularly achieves just that. Why, he wondered, couldn’t “a human organization wo
... See morefrom The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
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- “You must understand the whole of life, not just one part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, why you must sing, dance and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
—Krishnamurtifrom Tweet by Steve Schlafman
rob hardy added 3mo ago
- it is actually much, much easier to gain engagement, online and irl, by complaining about something, and bonding with others who also hate the thing, than by creatively adding value
from Tweet by nihilism disrespecter
rob hardy added 4mo ago
- those with verbal talent are going to have a more important skill set to offer the world in the coming decades, as the AI revolution takes hold—I think that those who are able to give expression to and speak to the deepest desires of the human heart will be the voices the world needs most.
from A Bull Market in the Humanities
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