Looking for your glasses while wearing them
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Looking for your glasses while wearing them
You can’t see your own culture while you’re inside of it. Once you get out and look back, you can see which parts of your personality actually come from your environment.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Stuart Evans added
Culture includes the often invisible systems that influence our day-to-day experiences and how people work together.
While there are plenty of articles and resources that talk about culture at work and shaping the future of work, what is missing from the conversation about culture is how it works and what specifically to do to build it, shape it an... See more
While there are plenty of articles and resources that talk about culture at work and shaping the future of work, what is missing from the conversation about culture is how it works and what specifically to do to build it, shape it an... See more
Superhuman
Britt Gage added
Culture creates process without rules.
“Having a shared set of narratives, concepts, and symbols is the basis, ultimately, for all culture — religious, national, ethnic, commercial, scientific, etc. How can you operate in biology if you’re not familiar with Darwin? How can you operate in tech if you’re not fluent in Aggregation Theory? You can’t. Even if you think the ideas are wrong, i... See more
How Ideas Grow
Agalia Tan added
you have to find the environment where these reference points become common
When it comes to dramatic shifts of this nature, I like to reflect on why it happened so I can have a better understanding of the architecture of my cognitive blind spots. In this case, there was something that I was clearly missing from my worldview that was made apparent only after I personally experienced it. Where else do these blind spots exis... See more
Lawrence Yeo • Why Having a Wedding Makes Sense
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co
... See moreRichard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
Emi added
This is how I feel about culture. We’re so surrounded by it that it’s impossible to see. Many things we think are true are really just our local culture. We can’t see it until we get outside of it.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
Mickey Patel added