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Your next wild success
Beyond your wildest success lies your next even wilder success. Well, of course, but what I mean is that, you’ve got to go beyond all of the strategies that created your last success, and get back to …
That's how you make your own living
Speaking of the need to make your own living, check out this wonderful kid:
So amazing. Gotta love it. (via Daring Fireball)
No smarter than you
Instagram is awesome, and $1 billion is a lot of money, but let’s not lose sight of what’s important here.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvEiSa6_EPA]
How to save the human species
The deeper you get into how messed up our current system is, the more clear it is that the change is going to be chaotic and messy.
Take food, for example. All evidence suggests that eating animal-bas…
Speaking of fish
For more on fish, check out this awesome TED talk by Dan Farber:
It’s yet another example of how fucked up our relationship with food is, and how tone-deaf we are about it.
Feeding chicken to fish?
How come we humans do this shit to each other?
Staying on the topic of food, here’s a clip from the Daily Show about the recent revelation that the meat industry puts up to 15% really disgusting “pink slime” in ground beef.
Ignoring for a moment …
Don't feed the animals
In Yosemite, they have these signs (captured by copeg):
So, wait, human food makes animals gain weight, and become dependent on (addicted to) the food - I wonder if it does the same to humans?
Why do…
I wonder if the same goes for humans?
Salmon that becomes stressed before slaughter has a shorter shelf life because the flesh suffers more bacterial growth and develops undesirable flavours and odours more quickly.
It …
The definition of success
Richard Branson and Desmond Tutu throwing water at each other:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nj70CY-pAg]
Richard Branson:
“You’ve got to realize money is not the definition of success. You…
Treat your customers with respect
Analyzing large volumes of data, he was able to determine that 70-80% of new customers were generated not by formal acquisition and marketing initiatives, but by word of mouth from t…