Matthew Stewart
Matthew Stewart
Well known as Fish from the comedy YouTube channel Wah!Banana, he was formerly a shoutcaster for Garena who worked on eSports games including League of Legends and FIFA.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYouTube Star
Date of Birth18 February 1994
CountryUnited States of America
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Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.
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We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.
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We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.
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Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own.
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Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.
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Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.
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Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
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I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico.
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Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.
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It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.
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The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true.
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The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.
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It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'
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We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.