SethG
Question your own expertise. “I don’t know” is a complete sentence.
the only way to avoid collisions is to find the confidence and empathy to yield… the shortest way to get to where we’re going involves cooperation and the resiliency that comes with empathy and awareness. When we exchange appropriate spacing and yield when we can, connections occur and we can flow forward.
Selfish brutality might work in the short r... See more
Selfish brutality might work in the short r... See more
Perhaps disenchantment (and the desire for hope) is primarily responsible for the rise in make-believe ideas about how the world works, nonsensical medical interventions and the diminished role of facts in decision making.
When we allow others to manipulate us with their magical stories, though, we’re often setting ourselves up for a collision with ... See more
When we allow others to manipulate us with their magical stories, though, we’re often setting ourselves up for a collision with ... See more
If scale is the goal, your control over each interaction has to loosen. The job of the leader is to create the conditions for others to raise the standards.
Trusting your team isn’t settling for less. It’s settling for better.
Trusting your team isn’t settling for less. It’s settling for better.
The future doesn’t care
It doesn’t care whether you’re excited or filled with trepidation.
It arrives, regardless.
What an opportunity. Or a threat.
Up to us.
It doesn’t care whether you’re excited or filled with trepidation.
It arrives, regardless.
What an opportunity. Or a threat.
Up to us.
The future doesn’t care
Wishful thinking doesn’t lead to successful skydiving, a working parachute does.
Versions of reality
[Cults are cults because they demand a shared story that doesn’t align with a useful, generative, positive version of reality, and so they harm the members and eventually hit the wall.]
Versions of reality
Good decisions are calculations based on what you know right now. If the world turns out differently than the data you had indicated, that’s not a bad decision.
A bad decision is one that isn’t based on available facts. It falls into traps like sunk costs or peer pressure. A bad decision is an error in judgment or skill. Good decision makers, when f... See more
A bad decision is one that isn’t based on available facts. It falls into traps like sunk costs or peer pressure. A bad decision is an error in judgment or skill. Good decision makers, when f... See more
The number of people reading a post or following an account is not a useful indicator of whether or not the ideas within are made up or not.
Act accordingly.
Act accordingly.