Isn't it interesting when governments are compromised, embarrassed, or tested by folks like Eric Snowden, there's a flurry of distracting events.... like a five-year-old New York bombing video released for no reason, and Jimmy Hoffa's body is (not) dug up (again).
We are pawns in an information game, and if the players play well enough, we never know where the real story is.
When my brain makes things up, it bounces back and forth between images of someone like Snowden eaves-dropping on a phone call to China, to just the opposite - that I live in total obscurity in a mound of data that no one really cares about or will ever sift though during the lifetimes of anyone around today.
We are all absorbed by a sense of our own self-importance. Sorta has to be that way so we eat and work stay alive and stuff like that.
[2013-06-23]
</rant>
c0
The only thing worse than not being able to see similarities between competing models is not being able to see the differences.
In the first case, you end up creating new solutions for the same recurring problem; in the second, you keep using the old solution for new problems.
A number of things help avoid this:
• Willingness to see others succeed with your ideas (and give them the credit)
• Willingness to fail with others' ideas (and take the blame)
• Willingness to succeed and fail together
And shared goals and attentive listening and tolerance and diversity and all those other good things that should go without saying but are usually said and then go away.
[2103-03-21]
c0
No comments:
Post a Comment