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  • #1
    Adam Smith
    “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
    Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

  • #2
    Adam Smith
    “The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ”
    Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

  • #3
    Adam Smith
    “In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest.

    Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”
    Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

  • #4
    Adam Smith
    “Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.”
    Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

  • #5
    Adam Smith
    “Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.”
    Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

  • #6
    Adam Smith
    “The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
    Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

  • #7
    Martin Lindstrom
    “90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #8
    Martin Lindstrom
    “Sex doesn't sell anything other than itself”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #9
    Martin Lindstrom
    “When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #10
    Martin Lindstrom
    “According to a study published in the Journal of Family Psychology, “In families with predictable routines, children had fewer respiratory illnesses and better overall health, and they performed better in elementary school.” The article added that rituals have a greater effect on emotional health, and that in families with strong rituals adolescents “reported a stronger sense of self, couples reported happier marriages and children had greater interaction with their grandparents.”6 A”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #11
    Martin Lindstrom
    “Unilever Hindistan’da yeni bir şampuan çıkarmaya hazırlandığı sırada, canı sıkılan muzır işçinin biri etiketin üzerine, nereden aklına estiyse, tutar X9 Faktörü içermektedir diye yazar. Bu son dakika ilavesi Unilever’in gözünden kaçar ve kısa sürede etiketinde bu ibareyi taşıyan milyonlarca şampuan şişesi mağazalara sevk edilir. Onca şampuanı toplamak çok pahalıya mal olacağından, Unilever işi oluruna bırakır. Altı ay kadar sonra mağazalardaki şampuan tükenince şirket “X9 Faktörü” ibaresinin yer almadığı yeni etiketler bastırır. Fakat çok geçmeden müşterilerden öfke dolu e-postalar yağmaya başlar. Müşterilerin hiçbirinin X9 Faktörü’nün ne olduğu konusunda bir fikri yoktur, ama Unilever’in bu özelliği kaldırmaya cüret etmesi onları kızdırmıştır. Aslında insanların çoğu şampuanın artık işe yaramadığını, saçlarının parlaklığını yitirdiğini iddia etmektedir ve bunun suçunu müstesna X9 Faktörü’nün çıkarılmasında bulmaktadır. Bu olay, bir marka ne kadar gizem ve entrika barındırırsa, bizlere o kadar çekici geldiğini gösteriyor.”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #12
    Martin Lindstrom
    “Other studies have shown that when people make a subconscious judgment about a person, environment, or product within ninety seconds, between 62 and 90 percent of that assessment is based on color alone.”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #13
    Martin Lindstrom
    “Tüketici ürünlerinde tüm yeni markaların yüzde 52'si ve bireysel ürünlerde yüzde 75'i tutunamıyor.”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #14
    Martin Lindstrom
    “Dünya çapında her yıl kabaca 21.000 yeni marka piyasaya çıkıyor, ancak bunların yüzde 90'ı bir yıla kalmadan raflardan kayboluyor.”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #15
    Martin Lindstrom
    “All the positive associations the subjects had with Coca-Cola—its history, logo, color, design, and fragrance; their own childhood memories of Coke, Coke’s TV and print ads over the years, the sheer, inarguable, inexorable, ineluctable, emotional Coke-ness of the brand—beat back their rational, natural preference for the taste of Pepsi. Why? Because emotions are the way in which our brains encode things of value, and a brand that engages us emotionally—think Apple, Harley-Davidson, and L’Oréal, just for starters—will win every single time.”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #16
    Martin Lindstrom
    “On one particularly hot summer afternoon, Rizzolatti and his team observed the strangest thing of all when one of Dr. Rizzolatti’s grad students returned to the lab after lunch holding an ice cream cone, and noticed that the macaque was staring at him, almost longingly. And as the grad student raised the cone to his mouth and took a tentative lick, the electronic monitor hooked up to the macaque’s premotor region fired—bripp, bripp, bripp. The monkey hadn’t done a thing. It hadn’t moved its arm or taken a lick of ice cream; it wasn’t even holding anything at all. But simply by observing the student bringing the ice cream cone to his mouth, the monkey’s brain had mentally imitated the very same gesture.”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #17
    Martin Lindstrom
    “Acapulco’da bir sahil barında tatlı okyanus esintisinin keyfini çıkardığımızı varsayalım. Yanında iki limon dilimiyle buz gibi iki Corona birası geliyor önümüze. Limonları sıkıp şişelerimizin ağzına tıkıştırıyor ve şişeleri ters çevirip o hoş fışırtı sesini duyana dek bekledikten sonra, biralarımızı yudumluyoruz. Şerefe.
    Ama önce, çok seçenekli bir soruyla kafanızı ütüleyeyim. Az önce yaptığımızı Corona bira-limon ritüelinin nereden çıktığı hakkında bir fikriniz var mı?
    A) Birayı limon dilimiyle içmek biranın tadını güzelleştirdiği için, bu Corona içerken kullanılan Latin kültürüne özgü bir yöntemdir.
    B) Limon, şişeleme ve sevkiyat sırasında şişede oluşabilecek bakterileri yok edeceği için, bu mikroplara karşı geliştirilmiş eski bir Orta Amerika alışkanlığından kaynaklanan bir ritüeldir. Ve son olarak,
    C) Corona-limon ritüeli ilk olarak 1981 yılında adı bilinmeyen bir restoranda çalışan bir barmenin arkadaşıyla bir Corona şişesinin ağzına bir limon dilimi tıkarsa bar müşterilerinin kendisini taklit edip etmeyeceği üzerine bahse tutuşmasından çıkmış bir ritüeldir.
    Tahmininiz üçüncü seçenekse, doğru bildiniz. Aslında sakin bir gecede bir barmenin rastgele uydurduğu otuz yıllık geçmişi bile olmayan bu basit ritüelin Corona’nın ABD pazarında Heineken’e yetişmesine katkı yaptığı düşünülüyor.”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

  • #18
    Martin Lindstrom
    “Başarılı dinler düşmanları üzerinde güç dayatmasında bulunmaya da çalışırlar. Dinsel çatışmalar tarihin başlangıcından bu yana sürüp gitmektedir; öteki'ne karşı saf tutmanın her zaman etkili bir birleştirici kuvvet olduğunu görmek için şöyle bir göz atmak yeter. Saptanabilir bir düşmanın varlığı bizler için yalnızca inancımız üzerine düşünme ve onu sergileme vesilesi olmakla kalmayıp, aynı zamanda bizi inanç yoldaşlarımızla birleştiren bir araçtır.”
    Martin Lindstrom, Buyology: Truth and Lies about Why We Buy

  • #19
    Ben Mezrich
    “An update on the war in the Ukraine, for example, coming from an anonymous user, versus an update from a Blue Checked reporter from Reuters, with a bio that put him or her on the ground in Kiev, could be read differently.”
    Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

  • #20
    Ben Mezrich
    “Maybe it was part of a larger, cultural shift, maybe it was in conjunction with a wave of excess and decadence sweeping through Silicon Valley itself, or perhaps it was just a symptom of the company’s own success, but in any case Twitter’s mission had become secondary to employees’ lifestyles. Two-hour lunch breaks morphed into two-month leaves of absence. New committees on every possible imagined cause were formed almost daily, eating up hours of productivity and usually collapsing over petty disagreements without ever accomplishing a thing. When people did, eventually, show up to work, there was a noticeable lack of focus.”
    Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

  • #21
    Taylor Lorenz
    “The changing trends reflected evolving user preferences, but they were also a reaction against the burnout-inducing standard of the peak influencer era. “We all know the jig is up,” said Matt Klein, a cultural strategist. “We’ve all participated in those staged photos. We all know the stress and anxiety it takes. And we can see through it. Culture is a pendulum and the pendulum is swaying. That’s not to say everyone is going to stop posting perfect photos. But the energy is shifting.” For the reigning influencers, the shift was disorienting and even catastrophic. “What worked for people before doesn’t work anymore,” said James Nord. In 2018, a creator could post a shot with manicured hands on a coffee cup and rake in the likes. By 2019, people would unfollow. According to Fohr, by the end of that year, 60 percent of influencers in his network with more than 100,000 followers were losing followers month over month. “It’s pretty staggering,” he said.”
    Taylor Lorenz, Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

  • #22
    John Carreyrou
    “Hyping your product to get funding while concealing your true progress and hoping that reality will eventually catch up to the hype continues to be tolerated in the tech industry.”
    John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

  • #23
    John Carreyrou
    “It was as if Boeing built one plane and, without doing a single flight test, told airline passengers, “Hop aboard.”
    John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

  • #24
    John Carreyrou
    “Would you rather be smart and poor or dumb and rich? The three engineers all chose smart and poor, while the Frat Pack voted unanimously for dumb and rich. Greg was struck by how clearly the line was drawn between the two groups. They were all in their mid- to late twenties with good educations, but they valued different things.”
    John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

  • #25
    Cal Newport
    “The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.”
    Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

  • #26
    Cal Newport
    “Digital Minimalism A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.”
    Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

  • #27
    Cal Newport
    “Simply put, humans are not wired to be constantly wired.”
    Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

  • #28
    Cal Newport
    “Solitude Deprivation A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds.”
    Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

  • #29
    Cal Newport
    “Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools.”
    Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

  • #30
    Cal Newport
    “To be clear, conversation-centric communication requires sacrifices. If you adopt this philosophy, you’ll almost certainly reduce the number of people with whom you have an active relationship. Real conversation takes time, and the total number of people for which you can uphold this standard will be significantly less than the total number of people you can follow, retweet, “like,” and occasionally leave a comment for on social media, or ping with the occasional text. Once you no longer count the latter activities as meaningful interaction, your social circle will seem at first to contract.”
    Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World



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