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Book cover for Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
Despite creating benefits in terms of speed and predictability, permissioned blockchains ultimately suffer from one important drawback. Trust is fickle. With permissioned blockchains, there is no guarantee that parties will not collude to ...more
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Daniel Goleman
“The problem gets compounded by what’s called the “illusion of explanatory depth,” where we feel confidence in our understanding of a complex system, but in reality have just superficial knowledge.”
Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Daniel Goleman
“the fundamental point that what we think of as “side effects” are misnamed. In a system there are no side effects—just effects, anticipated or not.”
Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

B.J.  Fogg
“How long does it take for habits to grow to their full expression? There is no universal answer. Any advice you hear about a habit taking twenty-one or sixty days to fully form is not entirely accurate. There is no magic number of days.”
B.J. Fogg, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

Haruki Murakami
“Here's what hurts the most," Kafuku said. "I didn't truly understand her--or at least some crucial part of her. And it may well end that way now that she's dead and gone. Like a small, locked safe lying at the bottom of the ocean. It hurts a lot."

Tatsuki thought for a moment before speaking.

"But Mr. Kafuku, can any of us ever perfectly understand another person? However much we may love them?”
Haruki Murakami

“the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.”
James Williams, Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

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