We all make mistakes. It’s inevitable that we will sometimes make decisions and take actions that end up having negative outcomes. When we assign blame – whether that’s to ourselves or others – we are dwelling on the problem. We risk staying in the past, and reliving the mistake over and over. [And getting progressively more bitter and resentful]. Responsibility
My early career was as a drummer. In music – in all art – the essential element is an audience. Certainly there are people who play or paint to relax, with no intention of ever publicly sharing their work – but the majority of art is created to be heard, seen – felt – by someone else. At some point,
On a recent episode of The Great Simplification, Josh Farley made a comment that not even Einstein – one of the smartest people who has ever lived – not even he could make a complete cheese sandwich from start to finish. The point was that it almost immediately becomes about the supply chain. OK, if I have the bread, butter
Does this drawing feel familiar to anyone else?! I’ve seen variations of it a few times recently, and believe it says something important. It’s nice to sit in a room, thinking we can make neat and tidy decisions about things. “If we do A, we’ll get to B.” But as we’ve all experienced – particularly in the last few years
The original mantra at Facebook was famously “move fast and break things”. [That turned out well.] We see the same thing [mistake?] happen again and again – right now, it’s with AI … A race to be first, with seemingly little concern for what the long term consequences might be. [And what are the reasons for wanting to be first?]
There’s an old idea that we become the average of the five people we spend the most time with. If we think about the people who make up our personal ‘List of Five’, they probably aren’t that different to us. They are likely to have a similar background and experience, similar lifestyle and income, similar attitudes and beliefs. In itself,
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