Addiction

“Addiction is the disease of our age. It is cunning and powerful. It proceeds from our chronic spiritual hunger and is nourished by our focus on getting and spending, and on news and gossip outside ourselves. Everything we need is happening within us. The focus on reports of others is only a distraction from the needs of our own spirit. Addiction grows fat from our chronic quashing of the inner life. We believe the spiritual does not exist because we have made insufficient space for it to manifest in our lives. A self-fulfilling tautology.”

ERICA JONG, Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir, 10, 1994

Crash Test Dummy

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"Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire... and the best piece of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics, is: first, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way!" - Harry A. Overstreet

The New Landscape

Farther ‡ fragmentation and diversification
Focus is on more pieces with greater variation
Faster ‡ hyperinnovation and computation
Knowledge is advancing at the speed of light
Deeper ‡ complexity and sophistication
Understanding the basics now requires expertise
Flatter ‡ globalization and collaboration
Business regularly spans borders and cultures
Wider ‡ imagination and inspiration
The information age has become the conceptual age
Tighter ‡ combination and integration
Intersectional thinking and mixing is the new norm

CokeHead

After Effects of Momos

Maiden Voyage