Somebody I know contacted me asking for some help to buy an iPhone. A highly educated professional. Yet, in panic. They sent me this pic about their @Apple Store browsing experience.
Too many choices only lead to paralysis, not “freedom” as some technologists insist. https://t.co/8UI7ZKYtOc
RT @mikegalsworthy: This is powerful.
Diplomats from around the world stand up and leave as Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov begins his sp…
Banks’ exposure to Russian borrowers.
From https://t.co/o36kYGPKcl https://t.co/RjhZCG6TJH
One of the advantages of seeing where people go is understanding how much they are willing to spend for certain things:
You can book dinner reservations and buy event tickets on Uber now https://t.co/kRVhqLtTec
People: we forgot/lost our passwords for 30 years. Can you make them go away?
Internet: the future of the web (and of your money) depends on your capability to manage your private key. BTW, if you lose it, it’s unrecoverable now. You are welcome.
Nobody wants to “be their own bank”. What people really want is a fair and equal market. Long-term, being our own bank is an enormous burden that most will happily delegate to somebody they trust.
So what’s really happening here is the displacement of a trusted actor for another.
It’s also worth reminding ourselves that history is written by the winners. What we read in leaders’ biographies rarely is the exact rendering of the events and it rarely represents an unbiased root cause analysis.
We’re just reading an idealized version of what really happened.
It’s much harder to grow those traits and adopts those solutions that we dislike. Not just because they are against our nature, but also because we know that they’ll cost us a high social price to pay.
Conveniently, we ignore those portions from the leaders’ biographies we read.
It’s easy to read a leader’s biography and cherry-pick traits that resonate the most with us and solutions that offer the most desirable outcome. But we can’t take apart a strategy and hope to achieve the same. To reproduce a scientific result, we must repeat same the experiment.
Lists with fascinating/amusing names I’ve been added to:
– Team 3.0
– Creativity artisans
– Cloudypants
– Free..Confidence Course
– Entertaining People