'Why Am I Not Rich & Famous?' – the Delusion of Our Times

Darius Foroux | 6 minutes

99% of what you see on TV is fake. “Reality” shows about people’s lives are fake. Vlogs on YouTube are fake. Posts on social media are fake. 
When I say fake, I don’t mean it’s all a lie. I mean that it’s not a depiction of reality. A snapshot of someone’s life on Instagram tells you nothing about that person’s actual life. That’s how we should treat all those things: As pure entertainment, not as inspiration for life.

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Quoting Einstein: “Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.”

- Russell Ackoff, A Lifetime of Systems Thinking

So, we should be working carefully from both the product end and the market end:
Doing a better and better job of providing what people want (whether they know it or not)

Communicating the above more and more effectively (so that they know they want it)

- Stewart Butterfield, We Don’t Sell Saddles Here

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