The Destruction of Trust
Why do we keep damaging the very thing on which we all depend?

Trust is an abstract concept. Abundant research shows that in human psychology abstractions pale next to the concrete.

#PastPresentFuture #DanGardner
https://dgardner.substack.com/p/the-destruction-of-trust

American betrayal.

Betrayal of the Welles Declaration; betrayal of the Stimson Doctrine; betrayal of great Americans; betrayal of American values; betrayal of American history.

... And the world will pay the price.

#DanGardner #DonaldTrump #MAGA
https://dgardner.substack.com/p/the-hard-won-wisdom-of-henry-stimson

... We had been betrayed. By our neighbour, friend, and ally. By a country we trusted completely.

Something snapped in Canadians.

#PastPresentFuture #DanGardner #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong
https://dgardner.substack.com/p/a-letter-for-american-friends

No appeal to justice will stop what’s coming, no appeal to the virtues of the world’s longest undefended border and the massive benefits free trade has delivered to both countries will make any difference. The majority of American voters may have cast a ballot for a sociopathic, zero-sum thug, but that is not how they think. They understand fairness.

But their new president? That talk is nothing more than the mewling of the weak.

#DanGardner #Thucydides #DonaldTrump
https://dgardner.substack.com/p/how-canada-should-respond-to-trump

So apparently one of my favourite authors in #policy and #management, Prof. Bent Flyvbjerg (who I really wish would come to Mastodon), has a new collab book out with Dan Gardner:

“How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between”

Very much looking forward to reading it.

https://a.co/d/7VCOrLZ (Amazon book link)

#BentFlyvbjerg #DanGardner