Philip Soriano
@philip
Philip Soriano
@philip
As the workforce increasingly evolves from muscle to mental, and rote tasks are increasingly handled by robots or computers, humans will be increasingly required for our emotional intelligence and empathy.
But another Pew Research Center study shines a harsher black light on masculinity. Researchers asked women and men where they found meaning, fulfillment, and satisfaction. They found women found happiness through multiple sources, but men did not.
They are not inserting themselves into every decision or displacing their teams. Instead, they act as teachers and system builders: They're present in the work not to control it or make every decision themselves but to model standards, sharpen problem-solving, and establish behavioral norms that enable others to act with autonomy and discipline. They don't meddle-they coach. They don't override-they elevate. They don't hoard decision rights—they teach others how to make sound decisions on their own. Their involvement is not disempowering—it is energizing. And it is purposeful: to build a system that performs reliably even when they're not in the room.
There’s a quote from Bismarck that says, in effect, any fool can learn from experience. The trick is to learn from other people’s experience. This book started around the latter idea and to my surprise ended up with a painful amount of the former as well.

I’ve always asked myself if there is a social media app that doesn’t reward looks or your going to the gym, but rather serves as proof that you do the introspective work, a gym for the mind. I may have found it. Hello Sublime