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What will happen with consumption? – The Daily PPILL #287

What will happen with consumption? – The Daily PPILL #287

The story goes, that when Henry Ford set the price of the original Model T, and the factory workers’ wages, the math came out to about four months of an average salary for the car. The thing is, an entrepreneur makes things because they want to see a different...
The assumptive friendship – The Daily PPILL #286

The assumptive friendship – The Daily PPILL #286

You know when you are being presented a product or a service, and the next thing you know is that you are giving out your credit card number? It is usually after a transitional question that goes something like: “which credit card would you like to use?”....
Change is hard – The Daily PPILL #285

Change is hard – The Daily PPILL #285

Sometimes we to the conclusion of limiting the possible alternatives. In business, there are “substitutes”. We have competitors, products and services from others that are similar to ours. But substitutes are different. Substitutes are not similar at all, but the...
Celebration – The Daily PPILL #284

Celebration – The Daily PPILL #284

Celebrate. It is a happy word. But what a strange word. It really takes a lot of context to know what is meant by it. It can mean “perform”. It can mean “reach” a point. It can mean “to honor or praise”. Something can happen without...
Map your mind – The Daily PPILL #283

Map your mind – The Daily PPILL #283

As we peer into what synthetic minds will bring to us, perhaps it would be useful to better understand and utilize our own. Particularly in today’s day and age, with the constant stream of distractions that we face, this seems to come down to focusing on the...