Categorie: Language
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Direct, immediate exchange
According to the Governor of the Bank of England: There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all…
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Open Enterprise
Good 8 minute talk on the open enterprise. You see this emerging to a more or lesser extent at an increasing number of organizations (which may be a threat to some of the staff). Key points:
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Banken Bonus Battle
Dan Roam doet het rookgordijn dat de superrijken hebben opgetrokken—Miljardairs 50 procent rijker in 2009—glashelder uit de doeken. A couple weeks ago Dan Roam met with potential clients at an investment bank in New York. President Obama had just announced that he was going to levy a $120 billion fee on Wall Street Banks to…
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Geluksbedrading standaard
Geluk: Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness rough transcription of Srikumar Rao’s talk You do not have to get, be or do anything to be happy. What you can get, you also can unget, right? If you unget everything, are you still happy? Being happy is your innate nature. You have spent your entire…
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Flow money
Moved to https://martien.substack.com/flow-money
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The “Soul Hypothesis”
Deepak Chopra salvo’s another interesting round of points on religion, science, God, Einstein, and such. The “Soul Hypothesis”, Part 1 The “Soul Hypothesis”, Part 2 The “Soul Hypothesis”, Part 3 The “Soul Hypothesis”, Part 4 The “Soul Hypothesis”, Part 5 Make room for thougth. A couple of key points: Atheism is a weak position in…
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Helping others makes us happy
How coincidental. Yesterday Thomas Herald from Dream Manifesto writes about Longest running study shows helping others makes us happy. And today I receive Mike Dooley’s Note From The Universe, stating the same: First, as a child, it seems like the entire world is there for you and you rush to drink from its every cup,…
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Brad Neuberg on Inventing with Values
Verbatim copy of EEK’s blog entry. Thanks EEK, for sharing this. Brad Neuberg on Inventing with Values: A few months ago, my friend, BradNeuberg, gave the keynote at Yahoo’s internal Front-End Engineering Summit. The video is now online, and it’s worth watching. Brad’s not only a great guy and a great hacker, he’s an excellent…
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Stroomtaal × pareltaal = krachtstroomtaal
Gaston Vilé tipt me op stroomtaal® toen hij aan het snuffelen was op zonnespel. Prachtig! Als taalfan spreekt mij stroomtaal bijzonder aan en doet me direct denken aan versterkend taalgebruik, waar ik ook enorme fan van ben. Kees van Zijtveld heeft me daar ooit op geattendeerd en sindsdien ga ik enorm bewust met taal om.…
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Resultaten uit het verleden waarderen
Omdat we fase 1 van het Aloha-project netjes willen afsluiten en een eventuele toekomstige verdeling van baten helder willen hebben doen we nu alvast een oprechte deelgeving—met een fictieve pot geld—zodat we daarmee later de resultaten uit het verleden billijk kunnen verrekenen. Ach, wat een mooi pareltje.
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Nomad
Nicole Recourt sent me email on Ramsay’s film on giving and receiving from our planet Earth: I’ve been organising a cross media project, film-documentry-internet series-book whose purpose is to follow four people travelling to remote parts of the planet in search of Nomadic tribes. Nicol says Ramsey is talking with one of our universities to…
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Love—The Purest Form of Energy
To Love is a verb, so hard work it is. And Love (with a capital L, in order not to be confused with its romantic meaning), passion, is the ultimate source of energy, strength and creativeness in the universe. My energy, my love, is focused on creating and nourishing a family, an organization, and software…