Comments on: History in the Digital Age https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/history-in-the-digital-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=history-in-the-digital-age 53 years and 204,000 miles of business, CEO, leadership, startup, political, military wisdom Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 By: JLM https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/history-in-the-digital-age/#comment-1256 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:03:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2957#comment-1256 In reply to William Mougayar.

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Indeed and you, my friend, are creating a great historical record at StartupManagement. Keep it up.

startupmanagement.org

Keep crushing it.

BRC
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]]> By: William Mougayar https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/history-in-the-digital-age/#comment-1255 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:57:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2957#comment-1255 That last question/answer epitomizes the ignorance of many young startup CEOs pertaining to management practices. They want to reinvent everything, instead of “reading everything” first. I wonder if that person knew who Marshall McLuhan was.

]]> By: JLM https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/history-in-the-digital-age/#comment-1254 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:43:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2957#comment-1254 In reply to Paul English.

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I could not possibly agree more with you. Contemporary events when morphed into “history” with the passage of time and the special sauce added by the victors has a tendency to be slanted and self-serving.

Clinton — the greatest retail politician of our times or an accidental construct of Ross Perot’s vanity run for President which siphoned off votes that would have been cast on the opposite side of the ledger for others? The truth is known by persons who lived through and the history is something else altogether.

Of course, you are a guy who marched in the second Nixon Inaugural, no?

BRC
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]]> By: Paul English https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/history-in-the-digital-age/#comment-1252 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:49:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2957#comment-1252 Hey BRC—I thought from the title this was going to head in another direction. In today’s modern digital age where information is a mere click away ignorance of history is particularly nettlesome. Revisionist history allows facts to be distorted and stacked to the forefront of SEO in this day of digital manipulation. The structured study of history is HARD WORK and requires research that few today show either a propensity to perform or a knowledge of how to do it. Today’s social trending dispenses historical “facts” in a digital pablum suitable for spooning down the slurping throat of an ignorant public. The ease of obtaining one data point and running with it is much too tempting for a lazy constituency. Researching issues and understanding their genesis is a lost discipline.

You have done a great job illustrating my paranoia through your discourse surrounding both Reconstruction and the full Nixon legacy. One era I learned through my studies and the other era I experienced firsthand. In the absence of experience, we must all turn to a solid understanding of history to have a fighting chance to extrapolate the probable outcomes of current actions. Is that not the true reason why we should pay accurate attention to history?

]]> By: JLM https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/history-in-the-digital-age/#comment-1250 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:22:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2957#comment-1250 In reply to Jim Peterson.

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You, my friend, are one of the victors and are writing a brilliant history with Garden Design. Keep crushing it.

BRC
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]]> By: Jim Peterson https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/history-in-the-digital-age/#comment-1249 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:59:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2957#comment-1249 Thanks Jeff. Love “history is written by the victors.”

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