Category: hacks

I’m fascinated by this book!

Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler have assembled all the rapturous ideas that are already transforming our lives and even ourselves.

Very interesting chapters on the transformation of shopping and advertisement.

Also the Turbo-boost chapter makes me think that no current market leader nor current leading technologies are going to be there still in our lifetime, giving space to new actors.

The 6D’s technological change (digitalization, deception, disruption, demonetization, dematerialization, democratization) will continue disrupting and transforming all parts of our lives.

Therefore, there is plenty of opportunities to re-invent, re-discover and re-imagine. The jump from an idea to the market dominance is incredibly quick now and will become even faster in the nearest future.

I highly recommend this book

Great job, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler!

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Thank you, Mark Lancelott for sharing this knowledge.
Indeed, it is rather challenging for most businesses to transition towards circular economy as “How we’ve always done things” is their only viable business model.

Yet, many companies, working in linear, cradle-to-grave economy adopt circular measures in the fields of product design, waste or GHG neutrality.
These are the pioneers of the transformational wave. We will see more of these trends until they become the new norm.

Scaling circularity is the challenge that we all need to get our heads around.

#circulareconomy

Steven Kotler sharing his incredible insights in this excerpt from the Art of Impossible. Worth investing 8 minutes of your time!

“While a good mood is the starting point for heightened creativity, a daily gratitude practice, a daily mindfulness practice, regular exercise and a good night’s rest remain the best recipe that anyone has yet found for increasing happiness”.

3 science-based strategies to increase your creativity 

How many times did we miss an opportunity simply because we were too (enter your adjective here) to ask?

ask!

LSA published a good summary of current trends in home cleaning industry. Consumer and legislative pressure on the manufacturers result in a big number of promising initiatives to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic.

Key eco-trends in this industry today are:
* Adding recycled content to the packaging (unfortunately, a short-term PR stunt, like substituting sugar with fructose in a milkshake)
* Selling solutions in bulk (promising idea, lacking convenience and scale today)
* collecting plastic back (most promising way to close the supply chain loop, conflict of interest with existing waste-to-value actors)
* DIY (the niche of the niche, like fax machines 🙂

Worth mentioning also non-plastic eco-trends:
* water/waste reduction (concentrated or recycled solutions)
* ecological and non-petrol based (renewable) solutions

Looking for ways to avoid plastic in the first place should be the first priority.

Equally important priority is a shopper education. More budgets should be spent raising awareness of the plastics threat and new solutions.

The link to the article: https://www.lsa-conso.fr/coup-de-balai-sur-le-plastique,361618

Red Queen’s Race

“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”

“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There”, 1871.

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To get yourself in the 2020 context, just substitute the word “country” above with “industry” or “job” and read the text again.

Running fast gets you nowhere these days. It is running twice faster then the others that you will excel.

Continue reading “My vision of 2020 Retail”

“The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers”. Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises, 1944, Bureaucracy

Full quote:

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. They, by their buying and by their abstention from buying, decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses. They are full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. They do not care a whit for past merit. As soon as something is offered to them that they like better or that is cheaper, they desert their old purveyors. With them nothing counts more than their own satisfaction. They bother neither about the vested interests of capitalists nor about the fate of the workers who lose their jobs if as consumers they no longer buy what they used to buy.

How many bio shampoos can one shelf hold? 🙂

And when it’s all done by just one same supplier? 

And how can one certify oil derivatives as bio or non-bio? There were no pesticides when dinasaurs lived, so all oil and its derivatives, including plastic, resins and rubber are “bio”.

That makes super glue bio too btw.

If you cannot convince, confuse…