Excerpt from here:
“In 210 BC, Xiang Yu led an army against the Ch’in Dynasty. While his troops slept, he burned his ships and smashed all the cooking pots. He explained to his troops that they had to either fight their way to victory or die. His troops won 9 consecutive battles. Eliminating options improved the [...]
Archive for December, 2008
December 30th, 2008 at 8:18 pm by Ari Shohat
Goals and Deadlines, the Ancient Far East Way
| General Rants | 0 Comments |
December 30th, 2008 at 2:03 pm by Ari Shohat
Content Sites Bracing For 50% Revenue Slowdown (TechCrunch)
| Business, Web | 0 Comments |
Michael Arrington writes that starting with the new year content sites are all expecting a considerable slowdown in web advertising.
Display advertising revenue is going to fall of a cliff in January according to a number of content sites I’ve spoken with who rely on advertising for revenue. “Sales through December were mostly strong as advertisers [...]
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm by Ari Shohat
Rick Schwartz on 2009
| Business, Domaining, Economy, Web | 3 Comments |
You might find this of interest from the “domain king”. Interesting perhaps if you aren’t into following the domain market.
We are about to see a rash of retailers go under. Some very big ones. I think one of the the biggest will be Sears. They are already hanging on for dear life from [...]
December 17th, 2008 at 8:29 pm by Ari Shohat
Risk Capitalism vs Rentier Capitalism
| Economy, Life Happens | 4 Comments |
Earlier in the week Charles had yet another brilliant Triage post.
One of the things that he mentioned is something that I’ve been trying to tell people lately when I hear things like – “see where Capitalism got us.”
I don’t see the implosion of the financial system as my kind of capitalism – which is not, [...]
Firstly
Charles Hugh Smith from OfTwoMinds doesn’t get linked enough here.
In a recent post on his expected “Obama Spring” Rally, I quote the type of lines that have me coming back for more:
But isn’t the stock market based on the fundamentals of the economy? Hahahaha, please don’t make me laugh this hard–I might hurt myself. As [...]
