Interview with FedEx logo designer
I didn’t know about the hidden arrow until today.
Also, this is funny:
One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.
The Coming Revolt of the Guards
Howard Zinn (2003)
Source: historyisaweapon.com
In 2006, it took me almost 8 weeks to sell 4000 books. In 2011, it took me five and a half days to sell that many. And I didn’t have to drive across twenty-nine states to do it.
A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: Time Investment
Joe Konrath — successful and prolific ebook self-publishing thriller author
Source: jakonrath.blogspot.com
What demotivates workers?
1) Hype: a failure to acknowledge the real difficulties the organization faces.
2) Futurism: Always “pointing down the road” at distant goals and not at the tangible results of employees’ recent efforts.
3) False democracy: Inviting people’s input when you’ve already made up your mind.
Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved into its elements experiences no sensations, and that which has no sensation is nothing to us.
History Is A Weapon
“This is an online Left reader focusing largely on American resistance history.” Good reads.
2008 Election Report - US Census Bureau
Breakdown of who voted in the 2008 presidential election.
The Millennial Generation, born from 1982-2003, is sometimes condescendingly referred to as the “youth vote,” but it should be more accurately recognized as the biggest and most important new voting cohort in America. There are about 95 million Millennials, about half of whom are now of voting age. One out of four eligible voters in 2012 will come from this generation. That will expand to more than one out of three voters by 2020.
This is the fundamental driver of American political change: Every two years the percentage of non-whites and Millennials increases, a trend likely to continue in the decades ahead. Non-whites will grow from 33% of the population today to as much 50% by 2042. There will also be a rapid increase in the “mixed race” population, which might further complicate matters.
We start to make up our minds about other people within seven seconds of first meeting them.
…the success of anything you make is 90% based on how amazing it is, and 10% based on the other stuff you do to try to get people to know about it and like it…
Many markets have historically been dominated by a small number of best-selling products. The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, describes this common pattern of sales concentration. However, by greatly lowering search costs, information technology in general and Internet markets in particular have the potential to substantially increase the collective share of niche products, thereby creating a longer tail in the distribution of sales.
