These 9 Retail brands filed bankruptcy this week:
1. Muji (917 stores)
2. RTW Retailwinds (400 stores)
3. Brooks Brother (200 years old – 250 stores)
4. Lucky brand (200 stores)
5. NPC International (1600 restaurants)
6. Sur La Table (120 stores)
7. Heritage Brands (162 stores)
8. Tailored Brands (1500 stores)
9. Ascena Retail Group (2764 stores)
via Facebook 2020-07-27T00:04:13.000Z
Why governments must exist in large societies (larger than 50,000):
1. Conflict resolution.
2. Impossibility if communal decision making.
3. Economic considerations of redistribution and major projects.
4. Population density force ordinance need.
#gunsgermsandsteel
via Facebook 2020-07-21T17:16:47.000Z
Tribal organization began: 13,000 years ago in Fertile Crescent.
Organized Religion: 12,000 years ago in Fertile Crescent
Chiefdoms began: 7500 years ago in Fertile Crescent.
States began: 5700 years ago in Mesopotamia.
Religious Text began: 5200 years ago in Mesopotamia
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“Government and Religion have been linked together throughout recorded history… it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.”
Jared Diamond
via Facebook 2020-07-17T14:46:38.000Z
Gitten’s index principal:
If a project is not creating 70% success in its outcomes, it is better to start a new project.
via Facebook 2020-07-13T14:11:50.000Z
When it comes to colonization of Arabs, we also had Field Arabs and House Arabs … to borrow from Malcom X, and they still exist today.
via Facebook 2020-07-12T15:55:29.000Z
“When you switch your brain to a new “thread,” a whole complicated mess of neural activity begins to activate the proper sub-networks and suppress others. This takes time. When you then rapidly switch to another “thread,” that work doesn’t clear instantaneously like electrons emptying from a circuit, but instead lingers, causing conflict with the new task.
To make matters worse, the idle “threads” don’t sit passively in memory, waiting quietly to be summoned by your neural processor, they’re instead an active presence, generating middle-of-the-night anxiety, and pulling at your attention. To paraphrase David Allen, the more commitments lurking in your mind, the more physic toll they exert.
This is all to say that the closer I look at the evidence regarding how our brains function, the more I’m convinced that we’re designed to be single-threaded, working on things one at a time, waiting to reach a natural stopping point before moving on to the next.”
Cal Newport
via Facebook 2020-07-11T20:55:43.000Z
Instead of talking about reopening schools, we should be transforming our education and work into mostly virtual space. There are tremendous great possibilities with such a change and a huge positive effect on environment and urban planning.
It is 2020, we are not going back to pre-2020 again. Give it up and think how you are going to build a great new future.
via Facebook 2020-07-11T17:27:21.000Z
Patience is an anti-value in technology.
via Facebook 2020-07-11T00:18:10.000Z
“They were not, with few exceptions, readers — never had been; that they had always occupied themselves with music, TV, and videos; they had difficulty slowing down enough to concentrate on prose of any density.”
Literary critic Sven Birkerts tells a story about his experience teaching an undergraduate course on short stories in 1994.
He tried to solicit opinions on the story he’d selected, but came up short. “My students could barely muster the energy for a thumbs-up or -down,” he writes. “It was as though some pneumatic pump had sucked out the last dregs of their spirits.”
That was 1994. Imagine 2020.
“For in fact, our entire collective subjective history — the soul of our societal body, is encoded in print. Is encoded, and has for countless generations been passed along by way of the word, mainly through books.”
#reading
via Facebook 2020-06-27T13:16:39.000Z
Wissam Charafeddine 