Gus Guerrero

“Late style arrives when you realise that you are: competent enough to write those things you wanted to write when you were twenty-five; impatient enough to have one more go at going all the way; angry enough not to allow anyone else to persuade you to do something else. At the same time, late style is cold, amused, contemptuous and savage about... See more

From the broad temporality

that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent

only on what it leaves behind.

That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as

the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”

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ne exactly what was

meant

by these marks.

“All those things that I've always tried to push away — having a vivid imagination or asking weird questions or whatever, I gave them a voice by writing and that's now what I do. So, all those things that I was so ashamed of or that made me feel really weird, are now what I actually like about myself. My writing has taken me places that I really

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"The stronger [the] identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction."

Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen (2016) put it even more concisely:

“A theory is a statement of causality. It’s a statement of what causes what and why.”

Theories then, are ideas about how things work - about causality and how to create change. And those who dismiss theory dismiss the practical application and power of ideas.

“The chief utility of a general theory... of strategy lies in its ability not to point out lessons, but to isolate things that need thinking about. Theory provides insights and questions, not answers.”