Great Quote

“Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.”

 

Timothy Ferriss

 

Startup blog agrees, and adds – if we blame our employers for the above, there’s no locks on the door…. and we’re still being lazy.

The silver bullet

Big business and Governments the world over constantly search for the big idea, the way forward, the next world beating innovation.  This viewpoint evolves from a mass culture of domination and power to the few. The military industrial complex where large investment, and owning infrastructure can create long term profitability, and ultimately control over constituents. 

If there’s anything to be learned from the internet and media revolution, it’s that the silver bullet has disappeared. It’s not the answer. Fragmentation is inevitable.

 

The answer lies in the aggregation of ‘collective yet differentiated’ resources. Aggregation is how we can overcome and take advantage future fragmentation. This is how the business opportunities of tomorrow will evolve.

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The energy / oil / enviro / climate crisis faces the same future…. and I’m betting that the answer isn’t a single substitue for the barrel of oil.    

Quirky fact 5.0

Until 1851 Brittan had a ‘window tax’. 

 

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Theory being that wealthy people have more windows. It was eventually replaced by council tax. Legend says the term ‘daylight robbery’ came from the taxation. Many homeowners would brick over their windows to avoid the tax.

Now British property entrepreneurs find houses with the bricked over windows and shed some light on renovation profits!

Blog Action Day – my 2 cents…

This is a modified ‘repost’ from the early days of Startup blog. But it’s here to read again because I personally feel it is the truth underneath the climate change story.

 

Climate change is regarded by many as the biggest problem facing the global community.  It’s an issue that is unlikely to be resolved any time soon due to the fact the climate change isn’t the problem. It’s actually the symptom. The problem is excessive consumption.

 

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Everything we do (consume) happens to emit greenhouse gases. Driving, eating, buying, mining and buildings all consume energy and resources being manufactured, delivered and used.  Governments and corporations are unlikely to encourage reduced consumption because apparently, growth is good.

 

Buying tree to offset carbon gas emissions isn’t enough.

 

Consider, then espouse.