Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. But this has an immediate impact on.
The reason, I believe, is even if you fail in doing something ambitious, you usually succeed in doing something important.
Right now, in America, 70 percent of our water is used for agriculture, yet 50 percent of the food produced gets thrown away.
Bill Joy famously pointed out: “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.”
Creating a company with autonomy, mastery, and purpose as key values means creating a company built for speed. And this is no longer optional.
Africa has 1.3 percent of the world’s health workers caring for 25 percent of the global disease burden.
Toilets account for 31 percent of all water use in America.
Human beings are designed to be local optimists and global pessimists.
To reach flow,” explains psychiatrist Ned Hallowell,22 “one must be willing to take risks.
Simplicity was really important to me. I wanted people to expend their creativity thinking about new things to design, not about how to work the machines.
The way I think about it, if you want to invent, if you want to do any innovation, anything new, you’re going to have failures because you need to experiment. I think the amount of useful invention you do is directly proportional to the number of experiments you can run per week per month per year. So if you’re going to increase the number of experiments, you’re also going to increase the number of failures.
It takes lots of hands to do farm work, so farmers have large families. But they want boys – usually three at the minimum. Their logic is heartbreaking.
You’re not going to push ahead when it’s someone else’s mission. It needs to be yours.
Three boys are desirable because one will probably die, while the second will stay home to tend the farm, providing for parents as they age as well as making enough money to send the third child to school so that he can get a better job and end this cycle.
Thus, on April 9, 2012, just three months after Kodak filed for bankruptcy, Instagram and its thirteen employees were bought by Facebook for $1 billion.20.
Abundance is a global vision built on the backbone of exponential change, but our local and linear brains are blind to the possibility, the opportunities it may present, and the speed at which it will arrive. Instead we fall prey to what’s become known as the “hype cycle.
Perhaps most importantly, the average American foodstuff now travels 1,500 miles before being consumed.
Skype demonetized long-distance telephony; Craigslist demonetized classified advertising; Napster demonetized the music industry. This list goes on and on. More critically, because demonetization is also deceptive, almost no one within those industries was prepared for such radical change.
2020, nearly 3 billion people will be added to the Internet’s community.
As a result, a worldwide grand total of twenty-six websites in early 1993 mushroomed into more than 10,000 sites by August 1995, then exploded into several million by the end of 1998.6.