You might be familiar with the concept of the minimum viable product, or MVP. Instead of trying to develop something perfect and then unveiling it like Steve Jobs at Macworld, you create the simplest possible version of what you’re offering and start selling it right away. That way, instead of endlessly refining something in a vacuum, you use feedback from actual customers to incrementally develop an offering people absolutely want to buy in the real world.
Asgari uygulanabilir ürün veya MVP kavramına aşina olabilirsiniz. Mükemmel bir şey geliştirmeye çalışıp onu Macworld'deki Steve Jobs gibi ortaya çıkarmak yerine, sunduğunuz şeyin mümkün olan en basit versiyonunu yaratır ve onu hemen satmaya başlarsınız. Bu şekilde, bir şeyi boşlukta sonsuza kadar geliştirmek yerine, insanların gerçek dünyada kesinlikle satın almak isteyeceği bir teklifi aşamalı olarak geliştirmek için gerçek müşterilerden gelen geri bildirimleri kullanırsınız.
how do you know but every bird that cuts the airy way,
is an immense world of delight closed by your senses five?
Sayfa 32 - devil:Kitabı okuyor
Knight : I want to talk to you as openly as I can, but my heart is empty.
Death doesn't answer.
Knight : The emptiness is a mirror turned towards my own face. I see myself in it, and I am filled with fear and disgust.
Death doesn't answer.
Knight : Through my indifference to my fellow men, I have isolated myself from their company. Now I live in a world of phantoms. I am imprisoned in my dreams and fantasies. Death : And yet you don't want to die.
Knight : Yes, I do.
Sayfa 27Kitabı okuyor
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Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase;
W ithout this, folly, age, and cold decay:
If all were minded so, the times should cease,
And threescore year would make the world away.
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Böyle sürecek akıl, güzellik ve başarı;
Yoksa cinnet, yaşlanmak, çürümek yer altında:
Hiç kimse düşünmese gelecek kuşakları,
İnsanlık sona erip giderdi üç batında.
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Sayfa 62 - Cem Yayınevi, 1993
What a world this would be, were it not held wholly and solely in the grip of stubborn old men.
The only solution was to try to unmake the world, to make it black and silent and uninhabited again, to return to the moment before the Big Bang, in the beginning when there was the Word, and to live in that vacuous uncreated space alone with the Word.
"I know that you're fighting an imaginary enemy called the ice witch. And that Behemdorg's king has been elevated to a god. It must be hard keeping up the act of there being a nonexistent enemy and nonexistent king. Making a common enemy that's easy to comprehend as well as leading the people like organized religion would is a good idea. In this world without education, everbody would believe it easily enough. Even if you revealed that the world has simply entered an ice age... there's just no hope! I like your lie. It's interesting!"
Vol 2, Chapter 18Kitabı okudu
Above all, we should treat the large and diverse set of countries in the Global South as partners to progress. Given their growing economies, Indian decisions between investing in new coal plants or more solar power, Brazilian decisions on how to develop their agriculture and exploit their tropical resources, African approaches to mining, protection of biodiversity, and low-carbon urbanization will all help determine whether the world meets the Sustainable Development Goals. Global South countries can be pioneers on sustainable development, whether through Argentinian techniques of ‘dry tilling’ to promote low-carbon farming, or innovations in the development of sustainable biofuels in Kenya, Tanzania and other African countries. India’s recent successes in lunar exploration open a vista to joint research with established space powers on the feasibility of mining for minerals on the moon, or further afield in our solar system. With the right technical support, African countries could undertake the genetic sequencing of new viruses locally, becoming key links in the early warning chain for global health.
As the number of functioning democracies across the world declines, and some flirt with authoritarianism, democratic leaders need to prove once again that they offer the most effective model of governance for dealing with the challenges of the twenty-first century. On most measures and in most domains, the US and its allies still stand at the top of the world league tables (if you exclude those small countries with exceptional wealth from natural resources). This is easy to forget, when the middle classes in America and many of its allies are struggling with the impacts of globalization and technological innovation, putting their social contracts under severe stress. Although the path is very difficult politically for each country, the keys to their rejuvenation at least lie in their hands, whether this involves upgrading their physical and digital infrastructure, delivering more sustainable energy, or reforming their education, health, pension and social care systems. One of their biggest new challenges is to manage the politics of apportioning and integrating the growing but much needed influx of young immigrants from the conflict-ridden and poorest countries in the Global South.
It is uncertain whether the US and its allies will put most of their newfound unity and effort into resisting China and Russia, or whether they can also lift their sights to what is the biggest global challenge of this era – climate change. What is clear, however, is that the visions for international order on both sides are contradictory and incompatible. One will dominate the twenty-first century. If the most powerful liberal democracies still want to midwife a world in which the majority enjoy freedom of thought and expression and prize the rule of law and transparency, with governments under pressure to serve the people rather than the opposite, then they need a new playbook. Learning from our recent history and understanding the important differences between the New Cold War and the last, it is possible to identify five rules to manage this new contest. These rules can reduce the risk of devastating conflict, sustain some of the main benefits of economic globalization, revive liberal democracy, and create space for greater international cooperation on global challenges.