For most of history, success meant success at zero-sum games. And in most of them meanness was not a handicap but probably an advantage. That is changing. Increasingly the games that matter are not zero-sum. Increasingly you win not by fighting to get control of a scarce resource, but by having new ideas and building new things. —

Paul Graham, in his latest post, Mean People Fail.

The creative economy works on different principles.

austinkleon:

That Steve Alibi bird/fart metaphor is here.

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Acton University, 10th annual.

June 16 - 19, 2015; Grand Rapids, Michigan.

“Be inspired to build a free and virtuous society.”

This looks like good stuff.

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