Simplicity can be the most essential tool for navigating complexity.
It’s Not A Taxing Problem
It’s a spending problem.
Even taxing the top 1% at a 100% rate, you still couldn’t close the budget deficit. Think about that for a minute.
According to 2007 IRS data, there were about 391,000 taxpayers with income greater than $1 million, and they had aggregate taxable income of about $1 trillion. Taxing them at a 100% rate would still not close the annual budget deficit, and if the government did tax them at 100%, the following year there would be no income to tax.
Hell’s Best Kept Secret
I thought this was a very interesting perspective on salvation. Ray Comfort proposes a reason so many people who at one point profess to be “Christian” – turn away from their faith. Give it a listen. Source
"We are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swaths of the economy,"
10-21-11 Quote
The less one wants, the greater the means for relieving the needs of others.
10-18-11-quote
Lessons Learned From Steve Jobs
As I’ve reflected on starting this personal site of mine for sometime now (I’ve owned the domain for five years), I’ve also been reflecting on taking a monumental step in my entrepreneurial career.
Guy Kawasaki shared some thoughts on lessons learned from Steve Jobs that immensely helped in clarifying many of the thoughts I have had around this new, rather uncharted endeavor. They are:
- Don’t trust experts.
- Customers can never tell you what they need.
- Biggest challenges beget the best work.
- Design counts.
- Big graphics, big font.
- Jump curves – not better sameness (not 10% better, 10x better).
- Works or Doesn’t Work is all that matter.
- Value is different from price.
- A players hire A players. B players hire C players.
- Real CEOs demo.
- Real entrepreneurs ship.
- Some things need to be believed to be seen.
There is real wisdom in these words. Marinate on them, and watch the video.