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?
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