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Our future cannot be made by burning the “red-tape” but instead by making it agile and evolving it in all senses to make it fit for purpose. This is a future in which we need to simultaneously design markets fit for the 21st century and design for markets fit for the 21st century – only in rapid synchronicity can we move forward.

Indy Johar • The Necessity of a Boring Revolution

Past that, he didn’t need any more money — so he’d stop working when he hit his “enough” amount and travel for the rest of the year. He didn’t want to grow his accounting business into a bigger company with employees and offices in every city. If he did, his “enough” number would also grow, from having to manage more employees and a bigger business

Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business

Brunello Cucinelli

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I call this positive paradigm betterness; in contrast with business, it’s not about being busier and busier (to what end?) but about becoming better. I believe it’s the next step in the evolution of prosperity and that its foundational principle is living lives that matter in human terms.

Umair Haque • Betterness: Economics for Humans (Kindle Single)

The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial

Venkatesh Rao ribbonfarm.com

Value, in an economic sense, is theoretically created by new things based on new ideas. But when the material basis for these new things is missing or actively deteriorating and profits must be made, what is there to be done? Retreat to the immaterial and work with what already exists: meaning.

Meaning is always readily available to be repeated, re... See more

nemesis.global • The Umami Theory of Value: Autopsy of the Experience Economy

So much genius and money has gone into a metaphor that assumes the zenith of humans desire to be status and likes and influence and conven- ience and efficiency. Humans want all those things. But we also want to be inspired. To be delighted. To express our deepest desires. To seek truth. To be moved. To create. To be challenged.

Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone. As Paul Graham observed , “prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy.