Thought poking

Words and ideas that poke your brain and make ya go huh

Briggs Uhler

It’s easier to exercise every day than five days a week.

Ron Shaich: Lessons from Building Panera

This applies to habits and schedules in general

People want to feel special in a world where they don’t.

Ron Shaich: Lessons from Building Panera

The world doesn’t need another business. It needs a better one.

Ron Shaich: Lessons from Building Panera

6. One of the clearest signs of intelligence is being able to hear an opinion you disagree with and not act emotionally

Everyone you admire has a story about how they overcame challenging adversity. Foolish to be disillusioned when it's your turn. Should feel proud to be able to relate to such esteemed company. Embrace the character arc of who you're meant to be. Everything going according to plan

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The pursuit of more has displaced the question of what it is for. And when a civilization forgets to ask that question, it continues to advance in technique while it declines in wisdom.

Anthony Deden • The Illusion of Progress

more and what it is for are italicized

Same applies to our individual lives as companies as civilization

Numbers replaced judgment, and the gross domestic product became the supreme idol of economic life. Conceived in the 1930s to estimate wartime output and industrial capacity, GDP was never meant to represent human welfare or civilizational advancement. It counted production for the sake of mobilization, not prosperity.[vi] Yet over time, this... See more

Anthony Deden • The Illusion of Progress

The Illusion of Progress

Anthony Deden forumgeopolitica.com

Acquiring money isn’t progress in itself
Progress comes from building and improving material things—communication, health and wellbeing, nutrition, transportation safety and speed, etc.
Progress happened in the 1800s and 1900s, but stalled going into the 2000s

What does the situation need?

-Jamie Tartt

in regards to Sam’s trashed restaurant; from Ted Lasso S3E7