There are known knowns
en.wikipedia.org[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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Pale Blue Dot
en.wikipedia.orgFrom this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, in[…]
Estimated reading time: 15 min
History of Ford Motor Company
en.wikipedia.orgTurnover meant delays and extra costs of training, and use of slow workers. In January 1914, Ford solved the employee turnover problem by doubling pay to $5 a day, cutting shifts from nine hours to an eight hour day for a 5 day work week (which also increased sales; a line worker could buy a T with less than four months' pay),[10] and instituting hiring practices that identified the best workers, including disabled people considered unemployable by other firms.[10] Employee turnover plunged, productivity soared, and with it, the cost per vehicle plummeted.
Estimated reading time: 35 min
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Boltzmann brain
en.wikipedia.orgThe Boltzmann brain paradox is that any observers (self-aware brains with memories like we have, which includes our brains) are therefore far more likely to be Boltzmann brains than real evolved brains, thereby at the same time also refuting the selection-bias argument.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Jonathan James
en.wikipedia.org"I have no faith in the 'justice' system. Perhaps my actions today, and this letter, will send a stronger message to the public. Either way, I have lost control over this situation, and this is my only way to regain control."
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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Law of the instrument
en.wikipedia.orgif all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Glasgow Ice Cream Wars
en.wikipedia.orgThe Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were conflicts in the East End of Glasgow in Scotland in the 1980s between rival ice cream van operators, over lucrative drug distribution territory. The conflicts involved daily violence and intimidation, and led to the deaths by arson of several members of the family of one ice cream van driver and a consequent court case that lasted for 20 years.
Estimated reading time: 11 min
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Ugg boots
en.wikipedia.orgBy 1994, UGG boots had grown in status among surfers in California with 80% of sales in southern Orange County where Ugg Holdings saw an increase in sales of 60% on the previous season.
Estimated reading time: 16 min
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Charles Bukowski
en.wikipedia.orgHis gravestone reads: "Don't Try"
Estimated reading time: 15 min
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Shintaro Ishihara
en.wikipedia.orgAccording to politician Kōichi Hamada, Ishihara gave financial and political support to Aum Shinrikyo, a religious cult that was involved in several murders and assassination attempts during the early 1990s.[12] Immediately after the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, Ishihara dropped out of national politics, suddenly ending a 25-year career in the Diet.
Estimated reading time: 16 min
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Steve Jobs
en.wikipedia.orgThe baby was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986), an Armenian American[36] whose maiden name was Hagopian.[37] According to Steve Jobs's commencement address at Stanford, Schieble wanted Jobs to be adopted only by a college-graduate couple. Schieble learned that Clara Jobs hadn't graduated from college and Paul Jobs had only attended high school, but signed final adoption papers after they promised her that the child would
Estimated reading time: 1 h 34 min
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Gordon Gekko
en.wikipedia.orgGreed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed
Estimated reading time: 8 min
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