descended rather predictably and depressingly into a discussion of rather predictable, well-worn favorites, such as the correct meaning of decimate, disinterested, and so. What this example shows, I think, is that questions of correct usage are not always as easily resolved as we might hope. Language is more complicated than that.
some really troubling stats that I found 87% of people according to Gallup polls don't like their jobs they call it disinterested or disengaged where they're un motivated they're not passionate and they just some of them even hate their jobs Newsweek said that 71% of Americans are either overweight or obese so when I say in my speeches I want to encourage you to aim higher in
article posits that Donald Trump could not have been elected without social media which is called dis disintermediation you know just directly talking to voters through his Twitter account which has been quite active apparently this morning about the New York Times um and so um I think social
Localization. Reclaiming the commons. Disintermediation. Gift economics. And a lot of this is happening on the internet in various ways, especially gift economics. And certainly, Google is part of that.
Stuff like-- Nah, examples are tiring, and you guys know about this stuff. Disintermediation. Does that ring a bell? Right? And collaborative creation.
um at the same time the kinds of work that you and your peers are doing is driving the whole process of disintermediation where in 1967 there were basically five companies that were distribution businesses that had the absolute control over whether a comic could be published
Morgan you've done something really powerful right you haven't just disintermediated one company you've you've disintermediated the central economy right and you've restored my ability to create value without having a job and what is a job but a legacy of this old Industrial Age model that was created to prevent V us from just doing stuff right
For some people, mindfulness just means taking a deep breath or sitting on a cushion on the floor, or just sort of paying attention to your thoughts and feelings with disinterest, like you're watching a boring TV show. But for my teacher, for Thich Nhat Hanh, mindfulness is talking about this exact capacity.
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. They actually disinterred Beethoven's bones in 1863, because someone on the Music Society Committee in Vienna had this idea that they needed to put his remains in a metal
I thought should be subverted to show what I believed to be true. And will publishers get disintermediated?
yeah yeah they're they're very set in their linguistic practices at this point they actively have a disinterest anything you do they don't want it they couldn't be less interested in it yeah
I show up, I start excitedly spewing ideas left and right, and I am met with total blank stare. I don't know if Kate is disinterested or totally terrified of me, but I awkwardly end this meeting and leave a bit frustrated. But later that day, Kate sends me an email that has five very well-thought-out brilliant ideas that she brought to the table.
schedules are in different neighborhoods, even garbage pickup schedules in various neighborhoods. Among the many experts who are being disintermediated lately are religious experts.
EF Hutton, the quiet company is really quiet. Why? Because we disintermediated the broker. Basically, we let trading happen directly.
Then actually thinking about, OK, what are these next layers of technology? Smart contract, disintermediation, what does that look like? And then finally we'll kind of close out with, I know there's a lot of new crypto projects coming out, some of our thoughts on cryptoeconomics,
schedules are in different neighborhoods, even garbage pickup schedules in various neighborhoods. I'm really sorry to be right about things like disintermediation and the unraveling of truths and the sexism and the exclusion of the insider engineering
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. And the person who was presiding over the disinterment is saying, we need to keep these bones up above the earth, because the future of medicine will
universe." This is like a classic utilitarian slogan. Looking from the point of view of the universe means looking with rational disinterest, right? Not just like as a human with human cares and and uh prejudices, right? Um, so they'll say like, "No, Sean, like we're actually better able than you to
in the same way that the extreme right wing and extreme left wing did to disintermediate authority in traditional political parties, but he did it in a pro-globalization, pro-Europe
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. And the people who are gathered there are the people who actually gathered at this disinterment.
In the sense that you're not encountering a stranger and feeling disinterested, and then thinking, well, you know,
So you're under-challenged. You're disinterested at what you're doing.
in Silicon Valley, their relative disinterest in my problem speaks loudly to that fact that I really only have one other choice where I come from.
sell it to him without Amazon without Harper Collins without borrowing money from Chase or JP Morgan you've done something really powerful right you haven't just disintermediated one company you've you've disintermediated the central economy right and you've restored my ability to create value without having a job and
achieve XY? Yes-- may I ask you a totally disinterested question?
And he realized that he just didn't profit a dime off those videos and so he realized that there was kind of a problem. And so he decided to create Stream, which kind of disintermediates the creators and the audience, and allows creators to kind of profit more and engage more authentically with their audience without being beholden to the kind of outside interests.
And he built one of the first iOS apps to do real time video classification. So I already touched on what Stream does, it disintermediates content creators and the audience and allows kind of creators to engage more authentically without being beholden to outside interests.
The world is still hopelessly mediated, despite all the talk these days about disintermediation.
A lot of what I drew inspiration from for this book was Cosmo, was looking at my cat and seeing the utter disinterest
Why is this? Because we believe that anything that's repetitive and rules-based that doesn't require dexterity or empathy is likely to be disintermediated
The very first time I walked into Google, I was stunned by the array of colors, the array of disinterest as to who was who.
and some things not at all, it is a normal experience for a software engineer. And so in the book you discuss the deep social changes that began with the first wave of the internet about this process of disintermediation, which was well underway by 1998, and how it fostered a mistrust of experts and intermediaries who had until then mediated society's interaction
You know, in those first weeks he was sort of sitting there looking kind of grumpy and disinterested.
And there's one interpretation of this that just says, well, they're lonely, or they're detached or disinterested, or it's just kind of sad to get older.
The publisher would look at me and be like, uh, this is totally disinteresting and just pass it off.
And a lot of really other interesting stuff, such as this, which is from a legal document that was written about 40 years after his death when his body was disinterred from his
It isn't. For a consumer, if I were selling it to you, you wouldn't be disinterested, you wouldn't buy it.
is I believe we need to create a disruptive model for health and-and to-to create what-what a friend of mine recently called a "disintermediate strategy."
the the critics first of all kind of resented that they'd been marginalized or what would you call it? The disintermediated, you know, by rock
imaginable, I gotta want to do it. Books that don't really want being done inevitably are terrible books. They're dull books. They're listless books. They reflect the disinterest