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21 " But replacing workers and making the remaining ones more productive are literally the same thing. If "
― Po Bronson , Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner
22 " The biggest lie of all is the notion that robots don’t take jobs, they create jobs. The robots don’t do that— the humans do. "
23 " Don’t buy clothes at department stores—just take the clothes into the dressing room, post a photo of yourself on Instagram wearing them, and leave as the likes start accumulating by the hundreds. "
24 " Rather than improving trust, crypto has tried to minimize the need for trust. To create a system that requires no trust. To build a world that will still function even when all trust is eroded. "
25 " Around the world, every week, 3 million people move from rural areas into cities. That’s a San Francisco every two days! That isn’t a future statistic. That’s a today statistic. "
26 " It didn’t matter if you were rich or poor, black or white, healthy or ill. Across every cohort, controlling for all variables, if you had “a sense of purpose” you stayed healthy, and if you didn’t have a sense of purpose, you didn’t stay healthy. It was more powerful for your health than exercising every day. It was more important than smoking or drinking. It was pretty much the strongest determinator of your future health. "
27 " Nobody is in sales anymore; they’re in customer relationship management. Nobody is in marketing, they’re in customer engagement. "
28 " The Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution are intertwined much like all chicken-and-egg problems. One couldn’t have happened without the other. Social change sometimes triggers technological change; sometimes it’s the other way around. But they always go hand in hand. No technological revolution fails to be directly connected to a social revolution, either just before or just after. "