Rambling Without Context: Why I'm Not Mad. There isn't a us v. them because them don't exist. To show this, we use a combination of nash equilibrium, the law of averages (and keep in mind just how average things actually are AND that there is a whole left hand side to that bell curve) and how people are indeed 'different' and have, dependent on the instant of time sampled, different motivations.

I noticed some talk about R&D and how that relates to a young company as it transitions to a more stable, larger and aged entity. To me, this helps explain where apple is at right now and why pfizer did what it did re: layoffs in r&d.

http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2013/09/decline-and-denial-requiem-for.html http://www.whopperinvestments.com/rd-bureaucracy http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2013/09/rebirth-and-reincarnation-escaping.html