When you make a non-bottleneck do more work than the bottleneck, you are not increasing productivity. On the contrary, you are doing exactly the opposite. You are creating excess inventory, which is against the goal.

THE LAW OF RESPECT - You can only lead when you’re the strongest of the bunch

The best way to deal with international competition in memory chips from Japan, Silicon Valley wagered, was to find an even cheaper source in Korea, while focusing America’s R&D efforts on higher-value products rather than commoditized DRAMs.

The repeated expression 'it was good' in Genesis 1 shows that the material world/physical reality is intrinsically good. The Greeks believed that the creation of the physical world was an accident or even a rebellious action of some lower deities.

But when individualism becomes the absolutely dominant ethos of a civilization—when it is not counterbalanced with any competing ethos—then the individuals within it may have maximum freedom, but the links between the individuals slowly begin to dissolve.

Avoid opinion-based questions, such as "Would you pay X for a product which did Y?”

Proactive people work on the things they can do something about.

In contrast, a domesticated animal is defined as an animal selectively bred in captivity and thereby modified from its wild ancestors, for use by humans who control the animal’s breeding and food supply.

I didn’t do it right,” he said, referring to the fact that he spent too much time trying to achieve and too little time taking care of himself and his family . “I was really wrong. Don’ t screw it up, Mike.

Physical separation. It doesn’t make any sense to separate people who are supposed to work together: if they work on the same thing, they tend to make less noise.