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One of the best Jazz pianists ever. Gone to join the Coltrane Quartet for eternity. RIP.


Each time I read a billionaire criticizing the current capitalistic system, that reminds me of Jacques Attali's argument on how Karl Marx was misunderstood with Socialism.

https://www.newstatesman.com/node/195490

Extract: "Attali: What he tried with the international socialist movement was an amazing attempt to think about the world in global terms. Marx is an amazingly modern thinker, because when you look at what he has written, it is not a theory of what an organised socialist country should be like, but how capitalism will be in the future. Contrary to the caricature of Marxism, he is first an admirer of capitalism. For him, it is a much better system than any other before it, because he considers the earlier systems to be obscurantist. Once or twice he had the idea that it was going to be the end, but he very rapidly decided that this was not the case, and that capitalism had a huge future.

What is very modern also in his view is that he considered that capitalism would end only when it was a global force, when the whole of the working class was part of it, when nations disappeared, when technology was able to transform the life of a country. He mentioned China and India as potential partners of capitalism, and said, for instance, that protectionism is a mistake, that free trade is a condition for progress.

For Marx, capitalism has to be worldwide before we think about socialism. Socialism for him is beyond capitalism and not instead of capitalism. He has much say on globalisation, what is happening to movement of companies, delocalisation and everything that is linked to the way we live today. In a sense, the Soviet Union was destroying or interrupting the validity of Marx's thinking and the fall of the Berlin Wall is giving back a raison d’être to his work, because Marx was thinking of the world globally and the Soviet system was a nightmare that he did not forecast."


The English say "Yes, but..." or " I am afraid ..." but in fact they mean no...

The French say "Non, mais..." ending up most of the time with yes...

So what's important? the start with No or the conclusion with a Yes.


Usually the conclusion is more important, unless it's also "slippery"

"No but we can go next week" sounds more promising than "No because I have to defrag my hard drive"


The word is actually Berber - Amazigh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timgad Interesting though to see that the same word means something to someone else in another culture. We're all connected somehow.


Thanks everyone with your personal suggestions. This will allow me to widen my reading spectrum. Interesting that no mention about books on History.


Another proof that strategy consultancies producing recommendation reports and advices and not getting involved in the implementation add no value versus the new model as you described above.


For me, it's a matter of writing down my thoughts and revisit them by reading my notes later. I can adjust accordingly by refining my thoughts in rewriting them.


Very sorry as my intention was not to claim the work. I completely ignored the posting rule because I did not know. A friend of mine sent me the link and I found Radio Garden so amazing that I wanted to share it to this community. I really meant no other intentions except sharing it widely for the greater good. Again apologies to the author studiopuckey and everyone else who felt offended.


Thanks for that. This is awesome too. Easy to use.


I do hope this announcement will not turn into a civil war or something similar.

Our startup has been selected to start NUMA winter batch next week, and the last thing we want to have is blood on the street.


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