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My biggest concerns on this article is "He explained that he had a conversation once with Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos about this, and the average time someone stays in job at Seattle is twice as long than it is in Silicon Valley. "

Could we say "higher liquidity in labor markets empowers disruptive innovation" or "disruptive innovation needs higher fluid labor markets."? If someone knows the report about this issue, please share with us.

Actually, the labor market in Japan is very lower liquidity. The reasons will be that most Japanese prefers stability in their life, and that recruiters in big firms prefer lower number of career changes in a specific period, 5 or 10 years. Concurrently, we have experienced social slumber, so-called "Lost Decade".

But, for reference, here is the interesting point about Japan History.

When we experience drastic social change, such as The Meiji Restoration and The Defeat in WW2, most Japanese suddenly abandons the preference for stability and drastically drives themselves to creative destruction. Sony and Honda were born right after WW2.

3.11 Tohoku Earthquake might have been a good trigger for drastic social change in Japan.

I'm very curious about the following issue by Mark:

"When a company like Netscape hired one top engineer, that person usually came from a top company such as Sun, Oracle, or Silicon Graphics (today Google or Facebook)...That can be really good and immediately infuse your company with skills and knowledge from somewhere else,” he says. “But that can also be really bad. Sometimes that’s not consistent with a coherent culture.”

Is there any danger to lose creative and entrepreneurial culture in hyper growing ventures by hiring massive talents from big firms?

The hyper growth is fantastic for startups because our past efforts are well payed off, but, if it may cause the lose of creative and entrepreneurial culture that we are going to establish at the same time, we have to do something to avoid. Or I don't have to worry about this?

If it's true, I'd like to know how great ventures in SV have dealt with this issue more concretely. I will not count my chickens before they hatch. :) I'm just curious as an entrepreneur.

Let me clear a couple of basic things related to this issue.

The origin of Zen comes from greater vehicle Buddhism. In Buddhism, we have two main derivatives: greater vehicle Buddhism and small vehicle Buddhism.

Small vehicle Buddhism devotedly focuses on what Buddha done to reach nilvana. So, they execute tough ascetic training in shrines.

But, as we know, not everyone can execute such training because of many reasons. So, greater vehicle Buddhism was born. And Zen was established in China by indian Buhddist, Daruma because it was heretical in India. After Confucianism became major religion in China, Japan was the successor of Zen. This is the history.

This story is pertially closed to the origin of Christianity.

Zen is the practice everyone can do. Controlling anger, relieving oneself from anxiety, and exploring answers inside, not outside. That's all. The meditation is one of the methods. We can do it everywhere.

One of the key concept in Buddhism is "changing ever". Everything is unstable.

And, I realize that one of the Jobs's greatest management philosophy is to release his past. This philosophy is very closed the above concept in Buddhism. As we get old, we easily stick to our past achievement. But, it doesn't mean anything, even will be bottleneck for us to step forward simply because everything changes, which also means everything is imperfect.

I think this is why Jobs used to said "the death is the great invention" because we are forced to step forward by death.

I think it's not about religious thing, it's about philosophy every one should have.

For me, it's not important whether Jobs is a kind of Buhddhist or not. He taught us "to release past". That's a most important thing.

This will be "Earth Mall"

Wow, if those shown stuffs will be searchable and we can run e-commerce, such technology might completely change our world. Interesting.

I love this. Challenging small but crazy ideas always strengthens our creativity. Remember your childhood. We created a lot of unique stuffs by using imperfect materials around us such as junk and bulk. These continuous challenge will be nutrition to help us become great creators.