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Entretanto, "Portugal coloca 1,5 mil milhões a juros mais elevados".
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Entretanto, ""Portugal teve a pior troca de governo de sempre. Mas pouco importa"":
"Se Portugal tiver sorte terá um crescimento de 1% este ano, não de quase 2%."
"Se Portugal tiver sorte terá um crescimento de 1% este ano, não de quase 2%."
"No que respeita ao efectivo leiteiro, registou-se uma descida considerável, com o desaparecimento de 22% das vacas e de cerca de 68% das explorações, a nível nacional. O efectivo leiteiro apresentou uma redução em todas as regiões, com excepção do Alentejo. Nas principais regiões produtoras, o número de vacas leiteiras apresentou quebras de 45% na Beira Litoral, 19% no Entre Douro e Minho e 6% nos Açores.Era muito interessante ter uma distribuição dos preços por kg de leite nas instalações até 10 cabeças versus nas instalações com mais de 50 cabeças. Também seria interessante uma distribuição dos custos por kg de leite em cada um dos tipos de explorações.
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O número de explorações leiteiras registou um decréscimo bem mais acentuado, particularmente nestas duas regiões do Continente (-74%), enquanto nos Açores diminuiu 36%, em relação a 1999. No entanto, a produção de leite nos últimos dez anos manteve-se estável, resultado do aumento de produtividade do sector, em grande parte devido ao investimento em tecnologia e ao melhoramento genético do efectivo leiteiro.
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Apesar da acentuada tendência para a concentração, traduzida no aumento do número de bovinos por exploração, que mais do que duplicou, passando de
13,8 cabeças em 1999 para 28,6 cabeças em 2009, e desta evolução ser ainda mais evidente nas explorações leiteiras (de 10,8 para 26,7 cabeças/exploração), continuam a existir muitas explorações pecuárias de reduzida dimensão. Cerca de 31% das explorações têm 1 ou 2 cabeças e cerca de 62% possuem menos de 10 bovinos. No entanto, é de notar o aumento do número de explorações com 50 ou mais bovinos, que constituindo apenas 14% das explorações com bovinos, concentram 74 % do efectivo total."
"Nos 10 anos em análise [1999-2009] verificou-se um decréscimo acentuado do número de explorações com bovinos (-51%), enquanto o efectivo, pelo contrário, registou um ligeiro acréscimo (+1%), o que se traduziu no referido aumento do dimensionamento médio do efectivo por exploração."(fonte: INE, Recenseamento Agrícola 2009)Encadeados pelo foco desse modelo, tudo é feito para reduzir os custos, inclusivé este tipo de proposta é lançada:
"a reutilização das proteínas animais nas rações"O que gerará a dúvida e o medo, depois, da crise das vacas loucas, dos nitrofuranos, da carne de cavalo, de ...
"Cada vez mais compradores especializados vão querer garantias de que o fornecedor não faz batota. E mesmo que as proteínas animais voltem às rações, será que os consumidores vão estar dispostos a consumi-las?"A alternativa é mudar de modelo mental e apostar na decomoditização com a carta da proximidade e autenticidade.
"there will soon be a way to authenticate your artisanal olive oil before you buy it. Thanks to interconnected mobile phones, cameras, sensors, and spectrometers, you will soon be able to analyze virtually anything in the physical world. Forget the internet of things. This is the "internet of X."Pois:
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The Israeli startup Consumer Physics has built an internet of ingestibles, using handheld molecular sensors embedded with a tiny spectrometer. Point one at an object, like a watermelon, and it breaks the light being reflected into a spectrum to show the object's chemical fingerprint. That information is then compared with a database of foodstuffs. Scan and search, the company says, to see if a watermelon has reached peak sweetness, or whether your medicine is real or counterfeit."
"Besides unlocking information, the internet of X will create new demand for transparency. Imagine if every food had its own digital nutrition label that could be scanned to display its exact ingredients and nutrients. If I were a crooked "olive oil" peddler, I'd start worrying."Quem estiver a descer o "escorrega" dos custos dificilmente poderá apanhar esta onda de valor acrescentado e, de nada valerá ser legal o que conta é a vontade dos consumidores.
"Nor is leadership performing in that other sense, the sense of being “a high performer.” And yet too often we look for leaders among the profit maximizers and goal attainers. But a leader’s fundamental role isn’t merely to perform the same tasks as yesterday, just more efficiently; it is to redefine the idea of performance entirely.Trechos retirados de "Are You a Leader, or Just Pretending to Be One?"
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Leadership is in an uncertain place. We long desperately for better leaders. But perhaps it is precisely our longing that’s the problem. We’re waiting for a rescue at the cost of our own redemption. Because it’s easier to complain about the leaders we have than to try to do better. After all, it’s a pretty hard job."
"passou de 18,8 mil no 4º trimestre de 2013 para 14,0 mil no 4º trimestre de 2015."Entretanto, ontem descobri um gráfico interessante acerca da demografia na agricultura portuguesa:
- De quem é essa garrafa?Depois, ao final da tarde fui com a minha mulher ao Intermarché de Estarreja e juro, a certa altura ela pediu-me para ... ir buscar um garrafão de 5 litros de ... já sabem, "Águas de Monchique" (foi ela que no ano passado me alertou para o atributo do pH alcalino).
- É minha - respondeu a responsável da Qualidade!
- Por que é que escolhe essa marca? - perguntei.
- Por causa do pH alcalino!!!
"De acordo com o responsável, a empresa tem necessidade de aumentar a produção para responder à procura dos mercados.Quem compra "Águas de Monchique" não compra água, para isso tem a água engarrafada a metade do preço ou a água corrente da torneira. Quem compra "Águas de Monchique" sabe qual o efeito do pH alcalino, valoriza esse efeito na saúde e está disposto a pagar por esse efeito. A água é um recurso processado pelo cliente e é ele que sente, que experiencia o valor na sua vida.
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O mercado asiático é o de maior exportação, nomeadamente para a China, Hong Kong, Singapura e Macau, que importam cerca de 30% do volume de produção da água algarvia. Nestas áreas, “as vendas têm aumentado substancialmente”. [Moi ici: Presumo que tenham uma margem muito boa]
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O responsável acrescentou que a marca Monchique aumentou também em cerca de 60% a sua presença no mercado nacional, apontando o crescimento de “clientes fiéis que conhecem os benefícios que a água tem na saúde"."
"the “smart tampon,” outfitted with chips and transmitters"
"People who suffer from a problem are uniquely equipped to solve it. “What we find is that functionally novel innovations — those for which a market is not yet defined — tend to come from users,”
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“The reason users are so inventive is twofold. One is that they know the needs firsthand,” he said. The other is that they have skin in the game."
"A economia portuguesa terá crescido entre 0,4% e 0,6% no primeiro trimestre deste ano, o que representa uma aceleração face ao verificado nos três meses anteriores (crescimento em cadeia de 0,2%)"Agora reparem no título: "acelerou".
"O PIB cresceu 1,5% no primeiro trimestre face ao mesmo período de 2014, uma revisão em alta de uma décima face à primeira leitura do INE. Trata-se do maior crescimento homólogo desde o terceiro trimestre de 2010.Acelerou... OK!
A economia portuguesa cresceu 1,5% no primeiro trimestre deste ano face ao período homólogo e 0,4% face aos três meses anteriores,"
"calling on farmers to fight industry decline by going back to their roots, and reconnecting with their local communities.
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To save Fordhall Farm, the pair launched a scheme believed to be the first of its kind in England: issuing shares and putting their farm under the ownership of a community farm land trust, controlled by local people and preserved for future generations.
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These shareholders are now brand ambassadors and loyal customers of the farm, which sells its produce via the farm shop and online.
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She is calling on smallholders to copy the Fordhall model and work with local customers. “The British public wants to pay a fair price. They want farmers to make a decent living. The moment farmers cut out the middle men, they can reclaim their livelihoods,” she said.
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“People are more and more aware of where their food comes from. It’s the perfect time for community businesses to be born and farmers to take power back into their own hands.”"
É preciso não conhecer a biografia de Jobs, ou os textos de Hilary Austen, ou o futuro de Mongo para esquecer o papel da arte.de q interessa a tecnologia, a engenharia, a economia e a ciência, sem a arte?— Carlos P da Cruz (@ccz1) April 2, 2016
"Like many industries, Big Fashion companies keep acquiring tiny, money-losing, buzz-worthy brands… that never quite go mainstream. They die silently and perhaps mercifully. But the real question is: why is this a pattern, when it’s both predictable and pointless? Because the fashion industry is making stuff for critics. Like many industries, from tech to media to sports, it’s trying to please them, win them over, even pander to them. But the critics aren’t the people who are buying the stuff. Result: shapeless, gigantic, genderless clothes that critics love… but that are driving the business of fashion to stagnation. They’re out of touch with what people actually want, love, hunger for.
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He also, importantly, made clothes people actually wanted to wear, and that looked better up-close in stores than they did on the runway. The fashion world was shocked.
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But collection by collection, he built a devoted cult of fans precisely because he was ahead of even the critics. The self-referential game of pleasing critics might feel good — but it doesn’t necessarily build a business.
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To do that, you have to make products people truly desire. It’s a dirty word in boardrooms, desire. We’re more comfortable with calculative, rational expressions of wants. We can put them in spreadsheets and crunch and process those. There’s just one tiny problem. So can consumers. You don’t pay royally for stuff that you’re running a calculation in the back of your mind about. You pay royally for stuff that enchants, hypnotizes, and entrances you. Stuff you love. Stuff that we love — whether that “stuff” is people or clothes or phones, to be crude — suspends the rational bits of us. It intoxicates us and leaves us giddy. We say to ourselves, “Of course it’s too expensive… but I don’t care. I have to have it.” [Moi ici: Excelente!!! Isto é Mongo! Isto é a concorrência imperfeita! Isto é arte!]
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At the core of this financial success is real artistry.
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Clusters like Brooklyn and Detroit are putting artistry and craft back into products from chocolate to coffee to furniture today. But the harsh truth is that Big Corporations see artisanship as marketing. They try to brand it, tricking people into thinking there’s artistry in things – Tesco’s “fictional farms” marketing ploy is a recent example — not really practicing itor investing in it. They should take a lesson from Slimane and actually do it.[Moi ici: A importância da autenticidade]
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That’s how you get out of the trap of simply riding trends and cashing in on them: ignoring critics, breaking rules, making things people truly desire, and making them with real artistry. It takes a rare combination of personal genius and organizational risk – which is perhaps why we don’t see that many Slimanes out there. Still, we can always hope for more."
"Familiales, non cotées en Bourse, ancrées dans les territoires, elles croissent de façon endogène se finançant au rythme de leurs profits."Outro pormaior, claro para quem percebe que compete pelo aumento do preço unitário em vez de pela redução do custo unitário, é:
"Autre trait commun de ces groupes familiaux, le patron se comporte davantage en entrepreneur qu’en investisseur. Il a l’obsession de la transmission, pas des dividendes, et développe l’entreprise dans la durée, en investissant massivement dans l’innovation. Accessoirement, le personnel n’est pas un coût à réduire constamment."Tão diferente da obsessão dos encalhados no Normalistão do século XX e os seus "91 more Oreo bakery workers receive layoff notices"
Recordar "Uma visão sensata"Focus on the space where you can make a difference . . . pic.twitter.com/FlmGemVMui— John Hagel (@jhagel) April 3, 2016
"Hackathons are no longer just for coders. Companies far outside the tech world are using these intense brainstorming and development sessions to stir up new ideas on everything from culture change to supply chain management.O facto de no fim as equipas terem de apresentar uma proposta... não chega mandar bocas e voltar ao ramram.
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At their best, hackathons create a structure and process around idea development. Sure, breaking out of the day-to-day routine can reinvigorate and inspire staff, but hackathons also demonstrate to employees that innovation is not only welcomed but also expected. Well-run hackathons lead to concrete ideas for new products and processes that can improve the customer experience and increase growth."
"It is widely believed that restructuring has boosted productivity by displacing low-skilled workers and creating jobs for the high skilled."Mas, e como isto é profundo:"In essence, creative destruction means that low productivity plants are displaced by high productivity plants." Por favor voltar a trás e reler esta última afirmação.
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"Lovaglia’s Law: The more important the outcome of a decision, the more people will resist using evidence to make it."
"If an organisation is too stable it can ossify, but if it is too unstable it can disintegrate. Successful organisations work between these two conditions or states, in what Stacey called ‘the chaos zone’."
"If the customer doesn't care about the price, then the retailer shouldn't care about the cost,"
“It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required”.
"Das Leben, das uns gegeben ist, ist uns nicht als etwas Fertiges gegeben, sondern wir müssen es uns gestalten, und zwar jeder sein eigenes."
"Eine Regierung, die nichts wert ist, kostet am meisten."
"Forget trying to persuade them; light their pants on fire."
"O futuro é o que importa. O futuro é a base do significado, é de onde vem o projecto que alguém tem para si próprio"
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
"o Marketing só existe a partir do pensamento estratégico, caso contrário "não resulta""
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
"Perder diversidade é como arrancar páginas de um livro. Quantas páginas poderemos arrancar até deixar de compreender o enredo?"
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
"By strategy, I mean a cohesive response to a challenge. A real strategy is neither a document nor a forecast but rather an overall approach based on a diagnosis of a challenge. The most important element of a strategy is a coherent viewpoint about the forces at work, not a plan."
"Un desastre està punt de succeir a Espanya. El malentès de la gravetat de la crisi costarà car als inversors, ja que tindrà profundes conseqüències per a tot el sistema bancari europeu", afirma.
Entre d'altres coses, Mauldin diu que "els inversors estan fumant crack si creuen que els bancs espanyols són entre els més forts d'Europa, ja que estan amagant les seves pèrdues".
“… there are no “sunset” industries condemned to disappear in high wage economies, although there are certainly sunset and condemned strategies, among them building a business on the advantages to be gained by cheap labor”
"o vencedor da vida, o optimista que vive em incesto com o próprio ego, é o traço mais frágil do líder"
"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much
that we have done was very foolish."
You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment & make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race.
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
“Trust your guts. But not too much!”
"Customers will try 'low-cost providers,' because the majors have not given them any clear reason not to." "
"Natal é quando as Crianças pedem e os Pais pagam. Défices é quando os Pais pedem e as Crianças pagam."
"A imprevidência dos povos é infinita, a dos governos é legal"
"What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see"
“The leaders first task is to be the trumpet that sounds a clear sound”
"lamented the lack of any systematic data on the scale of unfunded IOUs that care-free politicians have handed out like confetti."
"Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul..."
O problema não é o consumo. O problema é o consumo assente em endividamento."
"There are designations, like "economist", "prostitute", or "consultant" for which additional characterization doesn't add information."
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change, you will change"
"Hope is not a strategy and a crisis is a terrible thing to waste"
The more you can see of the present, the more you can see of the future"
Yes, You can change the future, but only changing the present"
"Entrepreneurship is 'Having aspirations greater than your resources'"
“The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be."
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that"
"A estabilidade é uma ilusão"
"When we create the conditions of possibility, the universe becomes our co-conspirator"
Thinking about doing is not doing. Talking about doing is not doing. Doing is doing."
"'God has created me to do him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another'.
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"Each of us has a mission, each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.
"As our Lord tells us in the Gospel we have just heard, our light must shine in the sight of all, so that, seeing our good works, they may give praise to our heavenly Father."
"The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination."
"confusing testosterone with strategy is a bad idea"
"Much consulting involves the application of models to a system, as opposed to getting involved in the system as a positive change agent""
"O Portugal que pára sem orçamento é precisamente aquele que vive dele e que há todo o interesse em parar."
"credibilidade da política financeira e dos seus executores está ao nível da credibilidade de uma barraca das farturas"
"The role of the manager is thought to be reduction of uncertainty rather than the capacity to live creatively in it"
"today an entrepreneur is closer to artists than managers"
"A business without a path to profit isn’t a business, it’s a hobby"
"If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough. (And you’re probably boring, too.)"
"Storytelling isn’t just how we construct our identities, stories are our identities"
"'He who has a why to live can bear almost any how' "
"They can because they think they can"
"Se há coisa que não suporto é misturar catequese com negócios, é a incapacidade para calçar os sapatos do outro e só pensar na nossa posição de coitadinhos, pobres vítimas indefesas dos maus e que por isso precisamos do Estado todo poderoso para nos proteger e, nem percebem na volta, os juros que o Estado cobra por esse serviço mafioso de protecção que, ainda por cima não resolve nada."
"Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble."
"In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep"
"Value it's a feeling not a calculation"
"An economist is someone who has had a human being described to him, but has never actually seen one."
"Don't finish first--it's not about running a rat race. Start with a better ending in mind."
"If you sit in on a poker game and don’t see a sucker, get up. You’re the sucker.”
"The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided."
"Crediting government with the success of entrepreneurs is like crediting the guy who built Bill Gates’ garage with the success of Microsoft."
"I have found that assuming social scientists understand the difference between correlation and causality is not generally a good one."
"Promising never to raise taxes, without reaching a deal on spending, really means a high and rising commitment to future taxes."
"Some things are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a fool"
"os bancos não financiam a economia, a poupança sim"
"I do not know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"
"Never be afraid to try, remember... Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
"terms such as 'experiment' and 'observation' cover complex processes containing many strands. 'Facts' come from negotiations between different parties and the final product - the published report - is influenced by physical events, dataprocessors, compromises, exhaustion, lack of money, national pride and so on."
"'science in the making' is 'the consequence of [a] settlement' of 'controversies'."
"If the state wishes to spend more, it can do so only by borrowing your savings or taxing you more. And it's no good thinking someone else will pay, that someone else is you."
"All failures of strategy are rooted in the assumption that outcomes are predictable."
"Doing things like your bigger competitors is how to get killed in the wars out there"
“Uma moeda boa e forte é como a saúde. Só lhe damos verdadeiramente valor quando não a temos.”
"Life’s tough. It’s tougher if you’re stupid"
"O homem de bem exige tudo de si próprio; o homem medíocre espera tudo dos outros"
"Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me."
"As elites foram deixando de falar das exportações à medida que se foi percebendo que o país consegue exportar sem elas"
"Your toughest competition is the little voice inside your head telling you to stop"
"Pain is just weakness leaving your body"
"Built to last" is bad economics. Built to do something great" is the better idea. Think: "Creative destruction."
"the world is an uncertain place no matter how many Greek letter equations you affix to a problem."
"You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change s.th., build a new model making the existing model obsolete"
“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
"Success is not a destination. It's the trail you leave behind you."
"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."
“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around”
"Strategy as the "smallest set of - intended or actual - choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions."
"When something is commoditized, an adjacent market becomes valuable"
"nature evolves away from constraints, not toward goals"
"There aren't any textbooks on what to stop doing!"
"With great power comes great irresponsibility "
"Weird things happen when you take price out of the equation for consumers"
"‘It’s so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you’re wrong and you’re dangerous.’"
"Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."
"Increasing stuff that doesn't add value dilutes existing value."
"O federalismo não é a alternativa à troika, é a troika para sempre."
"Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts"
"Stressors are information"
“If you hear a “prominent” economist using the word ‘equilibrium,’ or ‘normal distribution,’ do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”
"The advantage of experiences over things for most of us is that we can make them seem unique, which = scarce, which = value"
"Pedras no caminho?
Guardo todas, um dia vou construir um castelo"
"Without risk, faith is an impossibility."
"Não posso com quem vive a achar que os outros lhe devem sempre alguma coisa."
"In a world of increasing automation, our ability to perform tasks is not nearly as important as our ability to dream. The questions we need to ask are not ones of action, but ones of meaning"
"Me arrancam tudo a força e depois me chamam de contribuinte."
"Letting people vote for expensive programs that “somebody else” will finance is a good recipe for getting people to vote irresponsibly"
"what's fairness gotta do with pricing based in value?"
"The epic battle of our generation is between the status quo of mass and the never-ceasing tide of weird."
“Price is emotional”
"There will always be a reason why you can't pursue it, until competitors create a reason why you must."
"The most important thing to study is opening theory"
"The greater the contrast, the greater the potential"
“Customers don't care about your solution, they care about their problems.”
"Todos querem conhecer a verdade, mas o que desejam é que lhes contem uma mentira em que não sejam protagonistas."
"Execution efficiency strangles innovation in the crib, but not with malice, by default.”
"Our obsession with scalability is getting in the way of unleashing the potential of the 21st century."
"The system is optimized to mitigate risk, not create value"
"Champions are made when no one is looking"
"Don't bargain on value. Half as expensive is often twice as cheap."
"Customers care about outcomes, not effort, technology, or originality."
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"You don't have to pick between 1) playing the game and 2) not playing the game. You can *change* the game."
""The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." "