social engineering

The end of globalization? a loose/weak/unscientific hypothesis

2011 . Jan . 13

Hypothesis: We’re near or past the peak of globalization How would we try to evaluate that? Here’s a few articles that I found interesting… The end of GDP as a measure – http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/business/global/15gdp.html President Nicolas Sarkozy told the French national statistics agency Monday to take greater account of factors like quality of life and the environment [...]

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Too big to fail

2010 . Dec . 20

A friend of mine sent me a link about Google’s size (no, silly… it’s size in the market). I get enough spam comments about my own size already, but I thought perhaps I’d take a moment to put down my thoughts about how much of a good thing is too much. So, here’s another letter [...]

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Dave McClure, I thoroughly disagree with you.

2010 . May . 22

tl;dr – Some guy said some things I disagree with, then commented on an article about his statement. I saw that he responded, and thought it might be a prime opportunity to spout off. My reply: it’s not a zero sum game, don’t pretend like you’re something bigger than you are… you’re status and position [...]

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