Joseph

It’s another one of the economic dynamics where non-professionals sometimes have an economic advantage over professionals. This is just one example.

The past wasn’t as good as you remember. The present isn’t as bad as you think. The future will be better than you anticipate.

When you see the context in which something was written and you know who the author was beyond just a name, you learn so much more than when you find the same text placed in the anonymous, faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew of the Wikipedia. The question isn't just one of authentication and accountability, though those are important, but... See more

from the writer Howard Rheingold: “Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”

Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the "rat race"-the constant... See more

What we lack in innovation is definitely not capital, but a lack of confidence and knowledge of how to organize high-density talent for effective innovation.

the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.