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General Discussion / Re: If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
« on: January 13, 2015, 04:41:58 am »冬天来了,春天还会远吗?
The darkest hour is right before the dawn.
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冬天来了,春天还会远吗?
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I will vote for you as soon as the next client release comes out, I cant vote for anyone atm.
I would love to see a succinct list of the delegates that the "community" feels urgently need to be elected, and maybe a brief discussion of each. I think must here would find it helpful if the information was all in one place (a thread?).
I agree, we need funds and work done now, not later. If we had been a centralized company we would be going to investors right now offering them some percent of our company for cash infusion. I am trying this on a small scale, offering future delegate pay (given back 6-12-24 months from now) in return for capital now. Obviously it won't be huge sums, but I think if a lot of us pursued this strategy we could avoid sell-pressure (in fact increase buy pressure) and have the funds required to go full-steam on launch and the subsequent 3-6 months before all our competitors shape up.
Maybe I am dreaming, I will know more next week, but for now I am fishing with optimism.
This is a very powerful way for delegates to plan for the future and explain that plan! I like it!
This is how most startups pay their employees, at least in part, with shares in the company.
Certain types of employees look for jobs where they can trade their ability to tolerate risk for the chance to make it big.
You guys seem really cool. There's no question that you are way better than an Init drone delegate. And I'd like your business to succeed. I'm just not sure why the store couldn't create the cash flow you need. I know it takes time to establish a profitable business, but the same would be true of a delegate.
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?
― Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe
In the spirit of the OP, I threw the coins on the question and they returned Hexagram 50:QuoteFrom coming out to life to going back to death:
Those companions (t'u) of life,
They are one-third (shih-yu-san);
Those companions of death,
They are one-third;
Those living but moving toward the place of death,
They are also one-third.
Why?
Because of the intense (hou) life-producing activity.
I have heard that one who knows how to nourish life,
On land meets no tigers or wild buffaloes,
In battle needs to wear no armors or weapons,
A wild buffalo has nowhere to butt its horns,
A tiger has nowhere to sink its claws,
A weapon has nowhere to enter its blade.
Why?
Because such a one has no place of death.
Translation by Ellen Marie Chen
Nailed it with the eleventh hour.Clarity in action... the same advice most definitely applies to BitShares, right now, and I for one will be posting those words somewhere i can see them every day! I've never been a huge Steve Jobs fan, nor a detractor, but after watching that video you linked to, all I can say is... respect!
Here is one from Steve Jobs. His co-worker in NeXT is commenting "so really the next 90 days are all important" and Steve goes "we are going to make it or break it based on whether we can provide products .. and sevices and relationships ... that no one else provides, and i think we ought to spend a 100% of our time thinking about that - and if we can't do that then we ought to go broke."
http://youtu.be/WHsHKzYOV2E?t=6m52s
Message from the Hopi Elders
Hopi nation, Oraibi, Arizona
We have been telling the people that this is the
Eleventh Hour
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is
the Hour...
doesn't ripple using the expression also !? Just curious
"Those who serve life adapt to changes as they act. Changes arise from the times; those who know the times do not behave in fixed ways. Therefore I say, 'Ways can be guides, but not fixed paths; names can be designated, but not fixed labels.' " - Wen-Tzu, Verse 6
9.
Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
'Translated' by Stephen Mitchell
9.
To hold and fill (a vessel) to the full (ying),
It had better not be done.
To temper and sharpen a sword,
Its edge could not be kept (pao) long.
To fill the hall with gold and jade,
There is no way to guard (shou) them.
To be rich, exalted, and proud,
This is to invite blame (chiu) upon oneself.
When work is done (sui), the person (sheng) retires,
Such is the Tao of heaven.
Translated by Ellen Marie Chen