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Quote on risk and resilience 

 quote from “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career” by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha –

“Pretending you can avoid risk causes you to miss opportunities that can change your life. It also lulls you into a dangerously fragile life pattern, leaving you exposed to a huge blow-up in the future. What’s more, you can never perfectly anticipate when inflection points or any other career-threatening event will occur. When you’re resilient, you can play for big opportunities with less worry about the possible consequences of unanticipated hiccups. For the start-up of you, the only long-term answer to risk is resilience. Remember: If you don’t find risk, risk will find you.”

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AI brings new industrial revolution?






By Flemming​ Funch from his FB.

About FB.

“For a new platform to replace Facebook, it is not enough for it to be a slightly better Facebook. It needs to do some things we need many times better than Facebook, and maybe do some things we didn’t previously realize that we need. It might, for example, be a platform that helped us take action together, including an economic system. Rather than a platform (FB) that makes us addicted to reading and writing fairly random stuff, it could be a platform that actually helps us be aware of exactly what we need to know, and to get together with the people we could be most effective with, and to move together in a viable manner. Facebook is a Bulletin Board system, just like we had in the 1980s. Technology could now allow us to instead have the nervous system of a global collective intelligence, making us all super human together.”

Teenager’s and civil wars

An intriguing idea.

This is the source of the article:




Look at Democratic Republic of the Congo:

They have LOTS of teenagers relative to 35+ yr olds.

Now look at the United States:






Wow! My first answer on Quora and it’s going viral. Thank you everyone for the upvotes and comments!

Based on all the awesome questions I’ve noticed some themes and I’d like to add to my response:

(1) Things really aren’t that bad in the US.



(2) I didn’t really answer the question.


Thank you, Kareem Elashmawy for pointing out all of these peaceful revolutions:

1968 Prague Spring
1989 Velvet Revolution
1989 Peaceful Revolution (Germany)
1989 Bulgaria
1991 Soviet Coup D’état 
1974 Carnation Revolution
1979 Iranian Revolution
1986 Yellow Revolution 
1990 Mongolian Revolution 
2000 Bulldozer Revolution
2003 Rose Revolution
2004 Orange Revolution
2005 Cedar Revolution
2001 EDSA Revolution 
2005 Ecuador Revolution



The most fascinating counter-example was actually Iran in 2005. They had a HUGE bulge in teenage population at that time but a very low murder rate. Their teenage population has since stabilized, and was already significantly lower when the Arab Spring began in 2011.

(3) Knowing what you don’t know is knowledge.
