Philipp Rimmler
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Philipp Rimmler
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890
Why Does Truth Matter, Anyway?
New behaviors — behaviors we’ve committed to with consistent actions — will make teams think about each other differently and commit to working together in different and better ways.
Scott Monty • Consistency and Accountability
the art world rather craves context or historicity or narrative, situating works within some cultural framework.
What makes a brand special ?
As rational animals, human beings naturally desire to know the truth about reality. As Aristotle puts it at the beginning of The Metaphysics, “All men by nature desire to know.”
Paul M. Gould • Cultural Apologetics
Not everyone found that a satisfactory answer. In 1932, Lionel Robbins of the London School of Economics stepped in with intent to clarify the matter, clearly irritated that ‘We all talk about the same things, but we have not yet agreed what it is we are talking about.’ He claimed to have a definitive answer. ‘Economics,’ he declared, ‘is the scien
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
I am fairly certain most people cannot have their best ideas if they are in back to back meetings every day. You need time to question things and then research it.
So, if you wonder why it’s hard to make ground breaking products after the first, look at your calendar.
The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human attention. Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that.
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“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
— Lao Tzu
— Lao Tzu
Consistency and Accountability
Mindless repetition without meaning is the stuff of automatons.