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Friendship is a bond whose strength is measured in trust.

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Modern policy and justification.  When one side advocates some policy which works out poorly, there is never an admission is was wrong, or flawed, or anything.  The most common excuses are these: we didn’t go far enough; we didn’t spend enough; we didn’t message enough. The policy, however, is right!

The policy belief is paramount.  Some sort of decision commitment is involved, having little to do with outcomes.  Belief, you may agree, is a lot easier a sell than logic or evidence. It closes doors; it relaxes intellectual demand; it commands single-mindedness of thought.  We seem to have left behind the rational age of Voltaire, Laplace, and Newton, and entered into another universe where truth is decided beforehand.

Huxley said it best as paraphrased in, “We live in a brave new world.”

The ability to accept that a solution or method fails is essential for progress, personal, political, national, and even global. Said inability spells eventual disaster.

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Cool CEOs.  Gotta luv ‘em. Their dress in a (clean) T-shirt and blue jeans, today’s cool garb.  Truly sexist, this is, as you hardly see women CEOs giving annual reports wile prancing about in T-shirts and jeans. Women are still more circumspect in their corporate presentations. They wish to look good, and wear designer dresses to accentuate their position. 

It started with Steve Jobs. Since then many have been conditioned to believe that dressing ultra casual signals (a) competence or (b) disrespect of the status quo or (3) discontent with “the suit.”  Lately, some combine the T-shirt with a sport coat.  We see the same with the Ted lectures. Dressy!  Are we impressed?  

If anyone appeared for an executive job interview clad in blue-jeans and a T, the job offer would not happen. You gotta be a CEO or billionaire to get away with such dress, to be super-cool, perhaps to convince supplicants or shareholders you are intellectually superior. 
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