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Musing about artificial scarcity

February 25th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Because Effect, Opensource

The Because Effect is all about understanding abundances and scarcities. Any firm that truly understands the abundances and the scarcities of a given economic era is bound to prosper, as Gilder noted many years ago.
Opensource is all about The Because Effect, and is a means of making abundant things that were previously scarce. Abundance that [...]

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“The other 10% of the time, you lose the company”

February 25th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Four pillars

You may have noticed that I like quoting what Howard Schneiderman said, many years ago,  while he was at Monsanto, reproduced below. (I’ve referred to the quote thrice before, over the years):
When you turn down a request for funding an R&D project, you are right 90% of the time. That’s a far higher rate of [...]

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