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Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.

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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
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The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.
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A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.
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Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
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In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.
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This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.
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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom Increasing mutualism Increasing beauty Increasing sentience Increasing structure Increasing evolvability
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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I work in a you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours kind of a place.
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It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
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When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.
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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.
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Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.
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Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
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Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.
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We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
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Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
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