Wednesday, May 29, 2013

At a glace from the Macro to the Micro

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/05/paul-krugman-on-debt-but-are-s.html

Debt ratio, inflation, and so forth...all seems a bit of a mystery to me here.  It seems if economies were working and functioning more smoothly, value and production of industries, workforce were more measurably in keeping accurately to their transparent assessments.  More tangibly, however, if the misappropriation or perception of this has fallen out of line, the crisis of debt is more present...honestly though I am bored, this is merely talk, and I have little experience as to knowing the functions of economy.  Of course, it seems more obvious with higher unemployment that a larger pool of resources aren't being used, and that sometimes, merely it takes good investment potential to create what creates yet again by its own virtue.  If people are employed, they can, for instance, more likely afford to go to Walmart to support, in theory, the employees of that Walmart buying consumer goods, or for this matter any business selling goods and services, and then those that are likely employed for any length of time, more likely to live less from day to day, build equity, less likely to rely on credit or having amassed debt in the first place, squaring the needs of house and family away.  Of course, this is a macroscopic view on the whole if considered to the vast pool of peoples in terms of a country (even if oversimplified here).  One might be chided in saying neither to invest so poorly in something that were doomed in some way.  Then how long does economic restructuring mean that psychologically speaking the risk of debt exists such to say that while lending did exist, providing something viable for establishment or foothold in gaining business required higher scrutiny then it ever did in so far as small business loans were concerned?  Recalling here only a year ago, this sort of complaint that while money should exist for lending scrutiny for lending were much higher for small businesses in general.  Not sure if its improved somewhat.  While the lending revolution of places of Startup.com seem another venue for public investors to hedge their bets, it seems less a place of micro loans relative to a place where someone has given in some manner of charity, or at least if giving, I'd imagine this were with the hope that the money were put to good honest use, but likely I'd expect neither to see the money again...of course, while one hopes for self accountable use in the postings, more likely the social and financial expectations are looser in definitions to how one details for starting a business relative even the micro loan processes?!  Still another side of me likes the freedom of presenting ideas, neither having to deal with the investment/business modeling aspects here...we hadn't needed MBA s or other things, to ask for investment money to sell something, although knowing product placement, consumer market targeting, studying demographics, understanding how to reach the the right investment audience, and so forth could help?!  Could anyone be a successful inventor/marketer/business start up?  I still sympathize with a dreamer that has really good ideas, and who might have all the technical expertise here, bad timing and less financial know how shouldn't be the end of a dream really.  If we could only work on the cooperative social networking side of things better, in helping each other, the inventor might be tied even better to free lance product marketers, or even those with strong business administration skills to understand those taking on some inset risk.  Its one thing to buy into the tools allowing one to fabricate in mass products, its another thing to make sure those products get sent to good markets for sale, and its yet another thing to manage human resources.  What I hope is that what doesn't seem a good thing, turns south, over poor mismanagement of resources regardless.  Maybe if the startup sites also provided even stronger business prototyping structures, alongside linkedin style cross networking for aiding a would be inventor/entrepreneur chances for successful business ventures would only increase?!  I imagined a site that can amply provide projected product data analytic s, and likewise giving entrepreneurs survey information on the types of products of invention that showed strong potential or at least a potential within some consumer niche.  Of course, to some degree these sorts of tools are available at present in so far as internet site traffic, and then adding to this some sort of investment rating system showing the strength of the targeted start up.  It seems where knowledge could be power applies here.  I'd imagine nothing of the old mainstays of brick and mortar concepts behind our public and private market systems applied any different...just that technology made it easier for more to get involved.  While on the economic downsides, I'd imagine there is still yet tempered liberation here.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/opinion/friedman-how-to-get-a-job.html?_r=0

     I wonder how much more our culture is changing on these points illustrated.  I  find myself fascinated by the self-motivated explorers.  I've been following a guy by the name of Ben Krasnow on Youtube, for instance, because of innate curiosity in discovery and research, but its more of a self home brewing sort of project, not the stuff that would be specific in the area of concentric research but more so along the aims of popular science and technologies exploration.  At times generalized, and varied in techniques and approach to any number of subject matter.  This is refreshing given today's environment that at times has one in doctoral studies at aimed at highly refined areas of research, and this were one's gateway into the professional science industries.  Of course, why it seems important outside of other popular science shows such as How Its Made and the like is providing an audience as to a familiarity with the things that at times must seem like magic to us in terms of the technologies and inventions that we readily take for granted, but also providing exposure to any audience in the sense of education.  On the other hand, it seems having at times very lightly dabbling into the arenas of woodworking, would lead me to appreciate that fabrication of ideas themselves, at times seems more like alchemy, art, skill and craftsmanship.  Its not always easy, and practice, skill and experience don't readily come just because of thought alone but through experience.   Experience is learned through apprenticeship, sometimes through trial and error, and research.  Sometimes expectations, or at least that worldly knowledge and experience are valued before self motivation alone.    Of course, then I hold out with the idea that someday, more commonly people may be able to acquire the tools that would assist in the matter of fabrications.  For instance, maybe in our lifetimes, people will be able to create simple rigs to routers, allowing for precision decision uploading 3 dimensional models, and then 3 dimensional printing now is already now becoming more and more accessible for things like production prototyping....the next bridge is these in series for cheap and affordable mass production models, or somewhere down the road, it may not be long before one could reasonably, manufacturer relatively cheap high quality home furnishings that weren't beyond the micro loans process.  It may seem an anathema to larger production industries, but I wonder as to the viability of a potential new cottage industry?!  Then there is also in Blade Runner esque fashion the other concern, that any cottage industry regarding fabrications might become so cheap and affordable, that side street vendors were selling self produced medical products themselves...hard to imagine that this industry would face wholesale de regulations here.  As to inventors in our past, in hindsight, only in the slight appreciable sense, inventions say by Buckminster Fuller come to fruition at times, construction designs generally ignored here.  Being an inventor and thinker, doesn't come without something of inherent lifetime risks?!  I'd personally find myself at a loss, for instance, when it comes to the idea of thinking of re inventing something like designs of social media, or design presentation in so far as graphics designs were concerned, or more progressively I like to imagine something completely different.  Often times, though I wonder where progressive design and invention occur and how they manage to gain popular foothold in so far as mass consumption and usage are concerned.  For instance, is there a generational gap between media usage embracing technologies that use video conferencing versus more traditional telecommunications methods (e.g., voice)?!  Likely if this is so, this illustrates one of the great challenges at times for new technologies to take foothold.  Many could be reticent to the notion of video phone technology because they hadn't grown up in a culture having used this more commonly, and then problems that hadn't occurred before in so far as presentation should occur....you might not after want to be naked chatting with another friend that were a work associate, or at least you might have wanted to look more so your best, and then these days often times, video cams on cell phones and laptops were cheap enough so that imaging quality should seem quite poor relative to much higher quality video shows that we commonly take for granted.  If we find ourselves liking smooth video pans,  smooth aerial shots, and well sequenced footage, then it seems the fixed screen interview is something of a cultural let down in a way....someday, though it seems we might be doing interviews with multi cam drones hovering around us helping to professional frame our self presentations?!  Imaging technology seems to be on the rise in any event, and its not hard to imagine, that cultures change in so far as usage, more and more of younger people these days maybe embracing things like video hangouts on google +, and then I've only used this a handful of times...mostly if for the sake of testing screen shares for presentation purposes, but enough frequency in video latency has made this less desirable relative to more old fashioned desktop recorders for me at least.  For most though, if you hadn't been able to afford good light rigging, or at least hadn't much the know how, I've found natural light the best for me in so far as taking pictures even with the cheaper video cameras.   Lastly ending on another note, personally neither having stepped into the world as even an apprentice, I recall talking sympathetically to some having little experience in so far as the professional marketing world, it takes a lot to be a successful inventor these days doesn't it?!

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