Jean-marc

“Faking is a waste of energy, and our energy is one of our most valuable assets. Spend it wisely.”
― Beth Buelow, The Introvert Entrepreneur: Amplify Your Strengths and Create Success on Your Own Terms

“Why stop at seven margaritas when you can just print a new liver?”
― Kelly Weinersmith, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

“Despite the crapehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.”
― Heinlein Robert A.

“This arrangement, in which users take advantage of services and the company gains all the upside of the data they generate, may sound novel, but it is actually very old. Prior to the rise of capitalism, feudal labor arrangements worked similarly. Lords insulated their serfs from fluctuations in markets and guaranteed them safety and traditional rights to use the land and to keep enough of their crop to survive. In exchange, lords took all the upside of the market return on serfs’ agricultural output. Similarly, today, siren servers provide useful and enjoyable information services, while taking the market value of the data we produce in exchange. We thus refer to this contemporary system as “technofeudalism.”
― Eric A. Posner, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society