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Dick on Kipple
grant balfour | Dec 13 2007
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There's the First Law of Kipple... 'Kipple drives out nonkipple.'
It spills into my inbox - newsletters I should read, old notes to myself - and my bookmarks - links to sites I need to read sometime, or specific blog entries about things I need to know. But it seems to be far worse physically. Notes, magazines, review copies of (fascinating) paperbacks, paper clips, address labels. It's useful to me to think of this stuff not in an atomized way, as a million things to process, but as constituent parts of one thing: kipple. That way, I can actually start to act on it.
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 Kipple is the same as the broken window theorySubmitted by Kama on December 14, 2007 - 12:17am.
Here is a good explanation I cam across on another blog recently: http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/isitinthedetails.php »
 Re: Kipple is the same as the broken window theorySubmitted by grant on December 14, 2007 - 7:21am.
Had to look a little - the comments here parsed your underscores as meaning "italicize this!". But the article is here. The central thing (which I think is a good observation) is: Quote:
We feel more comfortable when we are in control of things. So we say we are detail oriented meaning that there are certain small things we like to control. Bad sign. The hard thing about managing details is focusing on the right details. The fun part is learning how to notice the right details. »
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