seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 05 2009 | people, business, culture, news, finance, travel, Iceland
Incredible story; great mix of personal insight and historical perspective. Read this and you'll want to tell people about it too.
Quoted: Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance—resulted from a stunning collective madness.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2008 | people, business, philosophy
Brilliant business writing.
Brendan, thanks for the link.ShareViewed: 9 Times - seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 23 2008 | people, business, culture, education
I wonder if this essay isn't a decade late. Seems obvious, no?
Quoted: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
ShareViewed: 12 Times - seregine | Shared With: Everyone - May 07 2008 | people, society, business, history, work, carreer, jobs
How industrialists created the consumer culture to keep people occupied. Baa.
It's encouraging to know that there's plenty of room for improvement. Our world is a product of dirty historical conditions, from apes through tyrants to masterminds. We can clean them up to make a better world possible.
Quoted: The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket.
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