Harrison Metal’s Michael Dearing on Pricing
Date: April 24, 2019
Categories: playbook
pdf here: 3akfo… At slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/heavybit/heavybit-presents-harrison-metals-michael-dearing-on-pricing
the evaporative cooling effect of social networks
Date: April 16, 2019
Categories: general
The Evaporative Cooling Effect is a term I learned from an excellent essay by Eliezer Yudowsky that describes a particular phenomena of group dynamics. It occurs when the most high value contributors to a community realize that the community is no longer serving their needs any more and so therefore, leave. When that happens, it … Read More
what architecture signals
Date: March 23, 2019
Categories: general
“If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.” — Joseph Campbell
Culture
Date: March 18, 2019
Categories: general
In his seminal work The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), Geertz outlined culture as “a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.”[7] “a collective act of interpretation, the stories we tell one another about ourselves in an attempt to make ongoing … Read More
Commonplace books (commonplaces)
Date: March 15, 2019
Categories: general
Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they have learned. … Read More