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"Love the premise. Agree wholeheartedly with the need to focus more on what’s “upstream” but no so sure about creating upstream and downstream as a binary rather than a whole. In the example of the need to understand and address causes of a headache rather than take an aspirin, why not do both? Stop tomorrow’s headache by addressing the cause and take an easy solution to stop today’s as well." — Dec 14, 2024 03:03PM
"Love the premise. Agree wholeheartedly with the need to focus more on what’s “upstream” but no so sure about creating upstream and downstream as a binary rather than a whole. In the example of the need to understand and address causes of a headache rather than take an aspirin, why not do both? Stop tomorrow’s headache by addressing the cause and take an easy solution to stop today’s as well." — Dec 14, 2024 03:03PM
As Bowles also notes, productivity depends on trust and loyalty in overcoming the coordination problems that recur in businesses. In his own words: ‘In addition to the invisible hand of competition and the fist of command, a well-governed
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“As an example, shifting your pencil from one side of your desk to the other today could change the gravitational forces on Jupiter enough to shift its position from one side of the Sun to the other a billion years from now. The unpredictability of the solar system over very long times is of course ironic since this was the prototypical system that inspired Laplacian determinism. (Tremaine, 2011)”
― Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
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“Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.”
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