Infinite Future

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Mon Jun 30

Risks

We start running risks when we get out of bed in the morning. Risks are good for us, they bring out the best that’s in us. They brighten the eye and get the mind cooking. They put a new shiny look on our days. Human beings should never be settled, it’s ok for chicken, cows and cats, but it’s wrong for human beings. People start to die when they become settled. We need to keep things stirred up.

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Mon Jun 16

Mythogenetic Moment

Joseph Campbell had a term for the nodal moment or temporal vortex: he called it themythogenetic moment. On the first page ofCreative Mythology, he signaled the 12th century as the last great mythogenetic moment in the history of Western civilization. … Campbell felt passionately that the transition into the 21st century could be a mythogenetic moment morally and spiritually equivalent to the 12th century, and possibly even resonant with it.

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Tue Jun 10

“ Dream the dreams and then be foolish enough to make your dreams come true. That may not work for everybody, but it did work for me. It was sort of the approach I used - it never was rational and it never made total sense. Vinod Khosla, Sun

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“ You don’t solve all of the problems before jumping into a new situation. You just sort of believe in yourself enough to say: I’ll figure it out… one way or another! And I did figure it out… It wasn’t easy, but it all worked out. Vinod Khosla, Sun

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“ We were building a team for a Zero Billion dollar company. Vinod Khosla, Sun

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Sun Jun 8

“ Sometimes simplicity is more complex than complexity. (I’d say not sometimes, but always!)

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Tue Jun 3

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Sat May 24

5 Simple Advices for thinking Simple and Big

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Fri May 23

“ But rare is the man or woman who can take an idea and transform it into a sharply defined product and then sell it to top-level prospective hires, investors and customers. An Entrepreneur as opposed to his lower-case counterpart is a product picker and a market visionary. source

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“ A company is more likely to be burried by a new technology than by its existing competitors. Kotler on marketing