Autonomy starts at the top and trickles down throughout the subsidiaries and in most subsidiaries, it tends to trickle down across that. A conspicuous example is The Pampered Chef, which sells its kitchen gadgetry through 70,000 independent distributors, all of whom call their own shots. Every CEO I interviewed for the book emphasized the value of autonomy at Berkshire.
Hi. So "Cumulus" maps a bunch of technologies from today out, as you said, a couple decades. But conspicuously absent are a bunch of technologies that we find promising today but aren't there-- virtual reality, embedded computing, augmented humans, genetic engineering, et cetera, et cetera.
course, you know, the other side, the neoliberal side, also cast off the aestheticism of the puritis, but in the name of conspicuous consumption rather than leisure with friends and family. Do you think it would just be better if our livelihoods and our status and sense of selfworth and all that weren't
the closest stars to the sun. Actually, that's not exactly right. There is a much less conspicuous star over here, a little red star that you actually can't see by eye. You need at least a good pair of binoculars to see it. It's called Proximus Centauri, and it is just a hair closer to us than the two stars
there are otherwise no characters of color anywhere in the app, in the film, or the book. And the conspicuous racial absence in this story and in Joyce's body of work more generally highlight how structural racism works in children's literature. It tends to normalize whiteness, tends to dwell in nostalgia, to exoticize, to demonize, or just to erase non-white people altogether.
you already feel enough like an outsider. You already feel very conspicuous and different. And this dynamic with distributing aid just kind of added to that.
Well, we get a mixture of similarities and differences from things like our cells. The most conspicuous similarity between a cephalopod and a vertebrate is the eye. Cephalopods independently evolved a camera eye.
His dress was in no way superior to that of his comrades. What did make him conspicuous were his arms and horses. He was by far the foremost, both of the cavalry and the infantry, the first to enter the fight and the last
she looked at that and studied a sample of something like 12200 people that worked in I think it was Canadian companies and which she found is that when dads were conspicuous in their caregiving responsibilities that they did face stigma or harassment and they were marginalized in the workplace so they fac the same kind of challenge as women do but that was only dads who were
The swamp cypress is hard to miss, standing head and shoulders above its neighboring trees, straight-backed as a palace guard. The climber is rarely conspicuous , but to avoid an audience, I carefully time my approach. The lowest branch is within easy reach.
But it's quite important, it turns out, in certain parts of aging. Possibly the most conspicuous is the immune system in which cell death and the-- and cell death is really important as a way of making room for rapid cell division later on. So those are the three that are related to the number of cells.
We've come a long way in biology in that time. Perhaps the most conspicuous and best example is, well, the simplest anyway, is Parkinson's disease, which has historically been treated in rather primitive ways by injecting compounds
Corporatist institutions and policies aimed at social protection and solidarity. These economies were conspicuous for their patronage and lobbying, not to mention cronyism and nepotism. Mussolini, a leading corporatist, promised higher productivity through innovation, but without arranging much for innovation.
That would not purport to tell the readers who or what they should be. Would not promote conspicuous consumption. Because I really felt, at that time, in 2006, 2007, so many of these magazines were all about $1,000 Louis Vuitton
you easy hunting ground they'll Patrol up and down and I suddenly realized this suit was very Orange um in a very white area I felt quite conspicuous it took a good three or four minutes minutes to put it on it's got these enormous mittens you can just see at the end of the sleeve they're like oven gloves there's no way I could use my I had a
even occur to me until I was writing this passage that the most important decision I made that day did not even rise to the level of conscious choice. I “decided,” without any conspicuous deliberation, that I had to be a parent first, not a journalist, on that particular morning. At one level, it was an obvious choice; at another, it went against self-interest, career, my professional identity, taking advantage of being an eyewitness to the biggest story of
leave somebody who um who makes it clear that they have to set boundaries around their workday because of caregiving responsibilities somebody who talks conspicuously in the workplace about their responsibilities or the or the interactions they have at home women as you know have had a penalty for years around caregiving right so women obviously are expected in some ways to
neighbors about how you have better stuff than they do. It's totally opposed to conspicuous consumption as an ideal of life. Instead, they said you should be able to take your leisure, take your pleasures,
Steve was always concerned about conspicuous consumption.
He described the ultimate purpose of conspicuous consumption to look as though you were refraining from productive employment.
The chair next to Mike remained conspicuously empty.
Now, the most conspicuous aspect of that consanguinous marriages, those inbreeding within the Spanish Habsburgs,
what we'd like to show off in terms of conspicuous consumption.
resembles some of those ideas-- Google Earth being a pretty conspicuous example.
Sergeant Stubner was awarded the Silver Star Medal for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a squad leader during combat operations in support
After a while, it became so conspicuous that the government had to open up all the projects to African-Americans.
women but one researcher who's now at the University of British Columbia um Jennifer berall looked at and said but are there penalties for men who not only are fathers but are conspicuous in their caregiving they're conspicuous dads and she looked at that and studied a sample of something like 12200 people that worked in I think it was Canadian companies and which she found is that
that Distortion happening do you everywhere everywhere I mean if you think about conspicuous consumption for
would follow. But he didn't conspicuously surrender. He was shot. Why he didn't put up a fight is a question I could never really get a good answer to because obviously, he
Well, what Tinbergen hypothesized was that the white inside of the broken shell would be conspicuous to visual predators.
Everyone's got guns on board, but kind of discouraging the conspicuous display or use of armed power on private vessels.
Here, it's covered up in a sheet as though a ghost might be less conspicuous on the Google campus than a robot.
Right? It's it's a lack of self-reflection, a conspicuous inability
And then over the years, after six books, each time a new project commenced, I was going a little bit more for the less conspicuous , less
But in your case, we didn't think that was necessary, because it would look too conspicuous ."
The 19 century economist, Thorstein Veblen, coined the phrase, "conspicuous consumption" in 1890, whatever 1899, I think.
in your pocket. I imagine to get sort of wider adoption on something like this, you'd need some kind of less-conspicuous hardware.
that that um concerns them? I mean, because it it seems conspicuously amoral
And so going to fine restaurants and introducing people to the wonderful foods that you can afford was a great way of showing off, of conspicuously consuming,
statements were "I'm going to go out as a martyr." He said that repeatedly. Secondly, unless he conspicuously surrendered, I think the rules of engagements suggested adult males
were a lot of boycots of British products. And you know, this is where we get the tea party from -- the Boston tea party. And there was, what I would call, "conspicuous