Philipp Rimmler

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.

Who does your business work for? If your only goal is profit, then it seems to serve only one group — the shareholders. But they’re only a part of the ecosystems your business belongs to.

Every company — big or small — serves six stakeholder groups:

1. Customers


2. Employees


3. Shareholders


4. Business partners


5. Society


6. Regulators

And they’re all equally important. Tha... See more

Every company — big or small — serves six stakeholder groups:

1. Customers


2. Employees


3. Shareholders


4. Business partners


5. Society


6. Regulators

Business, at its core, is about value exchange.

Love is for the ones who love the work.

A “barbell strategy,” Taleb writes, is one that involves “a combination of extremes kept separate, with avoidance of the middle.” Applied to reading, this means:

Trashy gossip magazines and classics or sophisticated works; never middlebrow stuff.

Trashy gossip magazines and classics or sophisticated works; never middlebrow stuff.

Their guest is Charles Broskoski, the co-founder and CEO of Are.na, and the first part of the podcast is devoted to an essay he wrote about “all of the important reference points (like books, artworks, people, etc) that have changed who I am (or maybe helped me become who I am).”

There’s something you get at about why we pay attention to certain things and collect them...that is different than a cynical and algorithmic view of taste...Our desire and attention falls to certain things because of the way that we feel about the person, place or thing that introduces them to us. In that way, taste is a lot more similar to love t... See more