Brandon Gorrell

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109 quotes curated by Brandon Gorrell:

“Quartz is a business-news site owned by Atlantic Media and edited by Kevin Delaney, a former managing editor at The Wall Street Journal. It operates a mobile optimized website, rather than native apps, and drives audience growth through daily email newsletters.”
— The New York Times, The New York Times Innovation Report
Tagged: Newsletters, Quartz, The New York Times Innovation Report
“The world of business really separates into two groups. Entrepreneurs who are disrupting the status quo are attackers. Large organizations are defenders.”
— Steve Case, The New York Times Innovation Report
Tagged: Business, Disruption, The New York Times Innovation Report
“Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.”
— Satya Nadella, The New York Times Innovation Report
Tagged: Disruption, Insights, The New York Times Innovation Report
“Hallmarks of disruptive innovators: introduced by an 'outsider,' / less expensive than existing products/ targeting underserved or new markets/ initially inferior to existing products/ advanced by an enabling technology.”
— The New York Times, The New York Times Innovation Report
Tagged: Disruption, Facts, Technology, The future, The New York Times Innovation Report
“If you are a dedicated reader in Brooklyn fond of sliding bills across smooth countertops in exchange for tantalizing tomes in independent bookstores, you have probably encountered the Middling Millennials. They are largely white women who are almost totally in the dark about their privilege, many bolstering a blinkered neoliberal feminism that demands a rectifying army of Mikki Kendalls and Djuna Barneses. They often confuse the act of literary engagement with coquettish pom-pom flogging. They are somewhere between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-three and are often found on Tumblr interspersing 'fun facts' and JPEGs with quotes that, despite the lofty intent, are more self-help than literary. These relentlessly unchallenging digital shrines are frequently adorned with a bean-boosting 'THIS' appended to the head of a calcified, well-tread, self-righteous sentiment that is reblogged — that is, if the MMs are not too busy Gchatting with others about the latest literary gossip. Some of the more pathetic specimens lean closer to forty and are often enlisted to interview esteemed authors before a small crowd under the mistaken impression that the interviewer is the center of attention. This group is not to be confused with the fine young minds and respectable hustlers who run and contribute to The New Inquiry, Open Letters Monthly, Jacobin, Hazlitt, Full Stop, HTML Giant, The American Reader, and Triple Canopy (to name but a few), who have all proven to be promising and proficient readers of a wide range open to lively and respectful challenge. To be perfectly pellucid, we are identifying disproportionate tadpoles who respond to any form of disagreement with a knee-jerk 'Dead to me!' block on social media and return to their cheery consumerist chatter, blissfully unaware of greater global problems.”
— Edward Champion, Emily Gould, Literary Narcissism, and the Middling Millennials
Tagged: and the Middling Millennials, Emily Gould, Literary Narcissism, Middling Millenials, Tumblr IRL
“The time lags imposed by stocks allow room to maneuver, to experiment, and to revise policies that aren't working. ”
— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Tagged: Systems, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
“A stock takes time to change, because flow takes time to flow. ”
— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Tagged: Systems, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Time
“The elements, the parts of systems we are most likely to notice, are often (not always) least important in defining the unique characteristics of the system—unless changing an element also results in changing relationships or purpose.”
— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Tagged: Systems, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
“A system generally goes on being itself, changing only slowly if at all, even with complete substitutions of its elements—as long as its interconnections and purposes remain intact. ”
— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Tagged: Systems, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
“Changing [a system's] elements usually has the least effect on the system.”
— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Tagged: Systems, Thinking in Systems: A Primer