Can banks individually create money out of nothing? — The theories and the empirical evidence
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057521914001070
Year: 2016
“In the field of persuasion, the ranking of power looks like this:
1. Identity always beats analogy.
2. Analogy always beats reason.
Trump spoke to our identity as Americans. Cruz spoke to an analogy of a TV show. Neither appealed to reason. Cruz wants to end this conversation, not engage in it. He can’t get into the weeds of his legal status without drawing more attention to it. And Trump already had the high ground by saying it could be a huge distraction as president. If you are Cruz, what do you do?
What you do is settle for a shark-jumping analogy and hope the world is paying attention to something else this week. Because that’s the only move available to you.”
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/136749788476/the-canadian-gambit-trump-persuasion-series
“Ben Chestnut quotes Steve Jobs’ famous line, “Creativity is just connecting things”. But, says Ben, this only works if you *actually have THINGS to connect*.
And if want to have THINGS to connect, first you have to MAKE them.
You. Have. To. Make. Things.”
http://hughcartoons.com/2016/01/04/how-to-run-a-creative-business/
“Politics is a small group of mostly powerless people talking about each other.” — Dave Winer
http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/03/0781.html
The Girl on The Hat – Jane Jacobs
“Tina, the girl on the hat, gets into trouble – falling overboard in a pond, exploring a dangerous cave, being kidnapped by two very memorable rascals – and gets out every time with the aid of a peanut! On one level , this book is a Tom Thumb fantasy, but on another, it is the story of a determined and resourceful little girl who grows when she learns compassion and devotes herself to work she likes…”
Citation
“The bigger the goal, the less competition there is for it. Think: Herd behavior versus solitary hunter.”
https://twitter.com/MarkOOakes/status/683711573991514113
“Technology makes the easy things easy and makes the hard things possible.”
“The [BlightStatus] app proposes a new kind of more productive communication between the two groups that moves past angry and frustrated citizens on one end and a paralyzed city on the other.”
“You can sit around and complain about how the city works, you can complain about how your government works, or you can commit to being a change-maker. You can commit to making a difference, and you can get involved.”
https://medium.com/civic-technology/changing-the-frame-from-social-innovation-to-civic-startups-e8ee09c05a91
About a decade ago, a lot of the “experts” were telling us that e-mail was “dead”, to be replaced by fun shiny objects like social media and messaging apps.
Why didn’t that happen? In a 2013 interview with Forbes, MailChimp CEO Ben Chestnut nails it:
(Email’s) gotten stronger, in my opinion. I remember when my friends and I would email each other messages like, “Hey man, what do you want to do for lunch?” Then we’d go back and forth “I dunno, Chinese?” On and on. Instant Messenger cleaned that out of my inbox. I remember when people used to email me stupid motivational quotes or urban legends. Facebook took that out of my inbox. Friends used to email me pictures of their kids. Instagram cleaned that out of my inbox. At work, project updates would clutter my inbox, but that can get posted to intranets and Yammers, and so on. All those email killers are more like email cleaners. I’m not belittling them. It’s a noble cause. We want our inboxes clean, and we only want to hear from people or topics we truly care about.
Bingo.
http://hughcartoons.com/2016/01/02/why-didnt-email-die-off/
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