We will speak in a human voice!! Interesting thoughts by Dimitri Lambermont
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How The Economic Machine Works
How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio. via swiss miss
Onora O’Neill: What we don’t understand about trust
Trust is on the decline, and we need to rebuild it. That’s a commonly heard suggestion for making a better world … but, says philosopher Onora O’Neill, we don’t really understand what we’re suggesting. She flips the question, showing us that our three most common ideas about trust are actually misdirected.
New Demand Patterns – How customers are changing the landscape of communication and business.
New Demand Patterns – How customers are changing the landscape of communication and business. from Helge Tennø
“Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can’t meet.” Interesting thoughts by Helge Tennø
Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na’vi real languages?
So geeky!!What do Game of Thrones’ Dothraki, Avatar’s Na’vi, Star Trek’s Klingon and LOTR’s Elvish have in common? They are all fantasy constructed languages, or conlangs. Conlangs have all the delicious complexities of real languages: a high volume of words, grammar rules, and room for messiness and evolution. John McWhorter explains why these invented languages captivate fans long past the rolling credits.
Janis Joplin on Rejection
The latest animation of the PBS series Blank on Blank
Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance
What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more like “farting around … in the dark.” In this witty talk, Firestein gets to the heart of science as it is really practiced and suggests that we should value what we don’t know — or “high-quality ignorance” — just as much as what we know.