Sublime

The maintainer and the optimizer: People who work within organizations often fit into these two roles. The maintainer has a job to do and does it.

People in industrialized nations used to be called “citizens.” Now we are “consumers”—which means (according to the dictionary definition of “consume”) people who “use up,” “waste,” “destroy,” and “squander.”

The history of the world, in some sense, is this predator/prey relationship between makers and takers.

three broad categories. Some people are Accommodators; others—like me—are basically Assertive; and the rest are data-loving Analysts.