March 20, 2019
Visualizing EV Sales Around the World
”Norway, after amassing a fortune through oil and gas extraction, made the conscious decision to create incentives for its citizens to purchase electric vehicles. As a result, the country is the undisputed leader in EV adoption.
In 2018, a one-third of all passenger vehicles were fully electric, and that percentage is only expected to increase in the near future. The Norwegian government has even set the ambitious target of requiring all new cars to be zero-emission by 2025. “
Nick Routley
The Full Story
My Thoughts
Norways’s sovereign wealth fund that is based entirely on its oil fields is valued at $1 Trillion.
I found these two graphics particularly interesting.
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around.the.world
March 20, 2019
The Challenge Of Self-sovereign Identity In The Digital World
My bold
“Dubus speaks about”that membrane of inviolability that should be around every human being.” Expanding on that, he adds, “You can’t violate someone’s sacred space without asking.” Then, “but in a fight you have to violate it right away, and once you learn to do that, you can always do it.”Those two points — that we have a sacred space inside a membrane of inviolability, and that once we violate another’s sacred space we can make a habit of it — lay out the challenge for self-sovereign identity in the digital world.”
Doc Searls
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My Thoughts
Related and Connected …. it’s interesting to think about this when watching the news today about the corruption in our businesses and governments. How did they think they’d get away with it? … we continually ask.
Because they always have.
Because they did it once and weren’t caught - so did it again.
Over and over and over they ’violated the law, decency our democracy … and thus their was the habit born.
politics
people.first
March 20, 2019
Mike Trout Doesn’t Care About His Online Brand.
… because he just made $430 Million.
“I got in some hot water a few years ago for writing a New York Times op-ed in which I argued that young people needed to spend less energy desperately trying to build their online presence, and more energy quietly developing unambiguously valuable skills. (I even wrote a book about this.)”
Cal Newport
The Full Story
My Thoughts
Good points from Cal Newport - but not why I am throwing this in here. $430 Million for a baseball player. The world really has gone mad.
observations
March 20, 2019
North Korea Warns That It May Restart Missile Tests
My Bold …
“Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui…said the North was deeply disappointed by the failure of the two sides to reach any agreements at the Hanoi summit between Kim and President Donald Trump….[She] said Kim was …
puzzled by what she called the “eccentric” negotiation position of the U.S. She suggested that while Trump was more willing to talk, the U.S. position was hardened by the uncompromising demands of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton.”
Kevin Drum
The Full Story
My Thoughts
Well - knock me down with a feather duster … Bolton uncompromising - who could have seen that coming?
politics
March 20, 2019
On Writing
”If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
Benjamin Franklin
quotes
March 20, 2019
On Strength
”That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
quotes
March 20, 2019
On Politics
”To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.””
Hubert H. Humphrey
quotes
March 20, 2019
On History
”You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.”
Steve Jobs
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