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How Japanese have produced wood for 700 years, without cutting down trees.
Daisugi is an ancient Japanese forestry technique developed in the 14th century originally used by people living in the Kitayama region, because the territory was extremely poor in saplings.
They planted cedars... See more
"Disliking the taste of our first drinks helps us become stuck. If the first drink tasted amazing, we would be more cautious. Since those early drinks aren’t very good, we throw caution to the wind. After all, how could we become addicted to something we don’t like?"
from "This Naked Mind by Annie Grace
My notes from Anna Wintour’s biography turned into maxims:
1. Hire talented people as found, not as needed.
2. Taste is as rare as a unicorn.
3.Your employees should describe you as “easy to understand.”
4.Pretend to be... See more
I remember talking to an owner of a series of car dealerships in Spain in 2011-2012. The business had seen some massive boom years prior to the Great Recession, but following that, sales had collapsed. So now he had hundreds of employees on the payroll milling around doing very little at all. He could see the demise of the business ahead, but he
... See moresomeone who has low self-esteem is really a narcissist in disguise, because both share the obsession with the self, no matter if it’s awesome or awful.
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