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Not a fan of reductionist frameworks. Coming from NZ where we have the colonial and Maori cultures starting to fuse it does provide some interesting insight. Cultures of Achievement, “with an economic emphasis on success, performance, productivity, and punctuality.” In his talk, Basáñez used the example of the U.K. Cultures of Honor, “with a political…
This is a super important inversion “we” need to understand and appreciate. In the West our rhetoric is not to “pick winners”, but we fall into the trap of backing “the winners” and we wonder why we don’t see a flourishing.
VC is pattern-matching. Because of this, less competent players fall into the trap of pitching themselves as the X of Y … Tell me you don’t know what you’re doing with out telling me you don’t know what you’re doing.
There has been a spate of “tall poppy” cry-wanks in the NZ entrepreneurial community over the past week. The theme is: I’m a tall poppy and I keep getting knocked down. Turns out that the people getting this coverage are generally: really unpleasant to deal with, they hurt people as their managerial MO, their achievements…
Most interesting are owners’ debates over what, exactly, they just purchased. Is the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really. Rather than settling into a new routine, or building a workflow around their new computers, users spend a lot of time talking in the future tense, about what this thing…
This type of cultural creep from major corporations is nothing new, but Disney has a particularly disturbing history of accelerated, amplified control across the mediums they enter. Each new property they acquire seems to permeate culture instantly, from stores to amusement parks to screens around the world. Even for non-Disney fans, escaping exposure has become…
“…if you weren’t a straight white American male wearing aviators your chances of winning a Hugo award were minimal”
Some interesting new directions of thought.
Dave5 