Overheard:
Guy having a bit of trouble at a urinal in the men’s room on the day they announced a General Motors recall: “I have an emissions recall.”
[2014-02-26]
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Sometimes the real alphas are off to a side watching the betas who think they’re alphas duke it out. That’s the evolutionary power of gray matter.
[2014-02-23]
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Something interesting was deeply impressed upon me recently: Few people question the work that they do every day, its value, cost, logic, and opportunities to improve it. I’m beginning to think I’m in the minority by thinking this way.
Minority voices are often thought to be counterproductive. And perhaps, in some way, and by comparison, we are.
Reasonable minorities usually want productive change, or at least have a productive goal in mind. Unreasonable minorities enjoy change for its own sake, alleviating boredom, or discomfiting others (or both).
Discomfiture can have some positive outcomes, of course, from civil rights to New Coke.
But “if it ain't broke, don’t fix it” sometimes also means “I like it broken.”
[2014-02-26]
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