“Reducing the bottom line is a great way to create the illusion of top-line growth.”
💬 Douglas Rushkoff
Epidemic Sound Sues Meta for Massive Copyright Infringement
“Meta is the king of, ‘we know this looks bad, but here’s why we’re actually saints’”
💬 Matt Birchler
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“If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a pyramid scheme.”
💬 Kevin Kelly
Worried?
One in five US adults condone ‘justified’ political violence
“Most alarmingly, 7.1% (of Americans) said that they would be willing to kill a person to advance an important political goal.”
💬 UC Davis Survey
I had cause to check out Jerry’s Brain today and stumbled on this quote at the top of his site;
“Reopening is an opportunity. Trust is the lever.”
💬 Jerry Michalski
Why did I have cause?
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“Such a site insists that I do all my writing on there. That’s a deal-stopper because I already have my best writing tool and I do all my serious writing in that tool. It’s as if a radio station insisted that I use their guitar to play music.”
💬 Dave Winer
“Nothing you create is ultimately your own, yet all of it is you. Your imagination, it seems to me, is mostly an accidental dance between collected memory and influence, and is not intrinsic to you, rather it is a construction that awaits spiritual ignition.”
💬 Nick Cave
“The original governmental draft was so bad that I thought that at least it couldn’t get worse …. I was wrong.
💬 Anonymous
Extracted from a private group - but I think it is applicable to many scenarios, in many countries.