… lead to the histories we write. Here is another really good call in the ‘the trap of our mental models’ camp: For the love of reason and rationality, please, we implore you this insanity isn’t going to end until you people STEP UP and do your jobs. Give us a better story to replace…
For the engineers out there…. solving a problem with VC is like solving a problem with a regex. Congratulations, now you’ve got 2 problems.
We can always bank on creativity to get us out of the shit… here are some exciting calls about the future of music. Life/Creativity always finds a way, https://www.honest-broker.com/p/nine-predictions-for-the-future-of
Intelligence is a multiplier for judgment, but if you have bad judgment, intelligence makes you more likely to get the wrong answer. Intelligence is jet fuel for foolishness.
Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. https://kottke.org/24/08/hopefulness-is-the-warrior-emotion
One of my big cargo-cult beefs is the endless consumption of “non-fiction” management books. It was so bad at my last job that I laid into my boss… “we keep reading histories written by winners, but we have not idea how they struggled to WIN and we have no idea about the losers”. It’s a…
… we need to recognize that the Human Tenure Trap is not a personal failing, but a systemic challenge. It’s a reflection of our human limitations and the way we’ve structured our organizations and institutions. It’s only by understanding the trap that we can hope to escape it. Otherwise, we risk winning limited battles and…