Choosing Between Schedule, Budget, Scope, and Quality
Argumentum ad populum is that the best way to beat your competitor is to one-up him. If he has 2 features, you need 3 (4 would be even better). If he is budgeting 1 x $ on his solution, you need to spend 2 x $.
To ESB or not to ESB is the question. Or is it more noble to just ETL it?
To borrow a metaphor from Winston Churchill,
Driving the Message
From an evolutionary point of view, it seems that the quadrant 1 and 3 messaging mediums (see chart) represent a form of r/K selection classification. Each trades between quantity and quality. The focus in quadrant 1 is to increase the quality of the content with higher expense per message. The focus in quadrant 3 is to increase the quantity of the content with a corresponding reduction in quality and lower expense per message.
The Time Tunnel & Reciting the Shema in Papua New Guinea
Among the most prominent themes in the Hebrew Bible are the concepts of sin, punishment, repentance, and restoration. Chapter 28 of the book of Deuteronomy, known as the “blessing and curse”, makes it abundantly clear what the rules of the game are. Follow the law and you will enjoy fantastic entrepreneurial success and overflowing prosperity, disobey it, and you’ll be punished with the worst forms of war, exile, anarchy, and poverty.