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Among our Potawatomi people, there are public names and true names. True names are used only by intimates and in ceremony.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
In an essay describing hunter-gatherer peoples with few possessions as the original affluent society, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins reminds us that, "modern capitalist societies, however richly endowed, dedicate themselves to the proposition of scarcity. Inadequacy of economic means is the first principle of the world's wealthiest peoples. The shortage is due not to how much material wealth there actually is, but to the way in which it is exchanged or circulated.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The point is to impose a pattern on the way a manager copes with problems. To make something regular that was once irregular is a fundamental production principle, and that's how you should try to handle [...] interruptions [...]
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
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