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John Zdanowski

@johnzdanowski

Systems Philosopher

 San Diego, CA
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Joined August 2007
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Everyone in AI bookkeeping is competing against someone that has all the customers. Quickbooks is going to solve is as good as anyone else.
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If leadership isn’t predictable it’s turbulent
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Taught a CFO how to look for Quality Bookkeeping in one Picture.
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Check out my latest article: Another One Bites the Dust: Bench Accounting’s Shutdown Is a Case Study in Misguided Strategy linkedin.com/pulse/another-o… via @LinkedIn
Another One Bites the Dust: Bench Accounting’s Shutdown Is a Case Study in Misguided Strategy

Another One Bites the Dust: Bench Accounting’s Shutdown Is a Case Study in Misguided Strategy

Today Bench Accounting a venture-backed fintech company specializing in online bookkeeping services, announced on its website that it is shutting down. When a company that raised that much money...

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Does your bookkeeper suck? linkedin.com/pulse/does-your…
Does your Bookkeeper Suck? How would you know?

Does your Bookkeeper Suck? How would you know?

One of the most important thing to do in bookkeeping is: MAKE SURE BANK BALANCE MATCHES BOOK BALANCE If your bank balance doesn't match book balance then you can't be sure your P&L is right. At...

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Replying to @RichardDawkins
You lumped their god in with all the other silly fictional ones.
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Pick any messiah you can name. You can bet that man’s first wife did not think he was the messiah.
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The poem that is in every Weekly Accounting proposal that we send out is "Intention and the System." In a speech set to music by Akira, Jordan Peterson explains how to use the concepts of Weekly Accounting in your own life, day to day. reflect.site/g/johnz/it-star…
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Evolution: A poem about the Metaphysics of Quality Born in garden sunlight. In harmony with spring. Living off the landscape. Like every living thing. ‍ Rivers smooth the mountains Animals trim the trees People help each other  In the evening breeze ‍ – at Fairbanks Ranch, CA
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There is no way to stop it The Word extracts its price Defining Us distinct from Them Was Our only vice.
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Lessons passed through generations Sharing information slow Communication speeds up Ending status quo ‍ Stories group the people  Ideas swarm like bees People fight each other For imaginary needs ‍ – at Fairbanks Ranch, CA
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There are three levels of knowing: 1.Simplicity—the child’s view 2.Complexity—the adult’s view 3.Informed Simplicity—the enlightened view of reality The beautiful part of arriving at Informed Simplicity is you get to travel.
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Communications between people in a company is a muddle of information and meta information all of it of questionable truthiness, however well intentioned.
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In the last throes of any social order….it would be a reasonable bet to throw an intellectual Hail Mary to the next. It seems that’s the way it’s always happened, divinely inspired or not. – at South West, England
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Sometimes when things are created too quickly, they tend to lack quality.
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“I consider myself an average man except for the fact that I consider myself an average man.” Montaigne as quoted Robert Wrights - Why Buddhism is True – at South East, England
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It is a poor poet who must fall silent upon learning the sun is just a massive sphere of hydrogen fusing into helium. – at South East, England
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, is true, or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits. - John C Lilly. – at South East, England
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I used to think my thoughts were true.
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Replying to @FahedMahidi
In response I would instead propose “people are money”. The only good reason for money is to help people trade with each other, thus it’s most basic form is our reciprocal trust in each other.
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