Organizations decide from poor understanding and overconfidence. "If you haven’t experienced it, or seen it up close, verbal descriptions won’t get you very far."
Why international politics is so often so full of “surprises": https://braveneweurope.com/aurelien-while-we-were-sleeping-life-is-full-of-surprises
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History is terrifyingly contingent, and what seems obvious now was not always obvious then: nor, indeed, was it inevitable Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Joseph Ducreux: Self-portrait, called the Surprise Photo [...]
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The mindset in #USA is if you #JoinGroup if you Join "a group" it is entirely OK to fuck over individual members.. #GroupThink
If a #corporation or political party #organization fucks-over #humans in #Teams or #Religions that's all good!
Gowwd… this so resonated with me. Like a cathedral bell inside my head, banging me into some awakened state. It’s slowly dawning on me that it’s time for another change in the way I live my life. Here I was thinking, I got this. I know what’s going on and I’m prepared for it. I have skills enough to recognise what it’s doing to me. Well, let me tell you. No matter how prepared and skilled you think you are, you can be fooled given enough time. As an unlikable army intelligence instructor I once had to endure was fond of saying: ‘The system, given enough time and resources, will always break you.’ And it’s hard these days to recognised, among all of those we’re subjected to, which system is brainwashing because there’s so much noise generated around it.
“Thinking and writing have become harder. It’s as if the neurons in my brain don’t connect with each other in quite the same way. I go to check a fact and get instantly diverted by a hundred other distractions on my phone. I find myself unable to devote time to thinking and writing like I used to.” (Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/may/06/how-to-survive-the-information-crisis-we-once-talked-about-fake-news-now-reality-itself-feels-fake )
Oh, and that Intelligence Instructor… the British officer? I guess he’d be long gone by now. He seemed unhealthy to me at the time, both in body and mind.
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I wonder how many of the studies concluding that x% of people think a certain way are only referring to x% of allistic people.
A quotation from Henry Commager
If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only “safe” way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways.Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday Review
More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
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If we establish a standard of safe thinking, we will end up with no thinking at all. That is the only "safe" way, and that is, needless to say, the most precarious, dangerous, of all ways. Collected in Freedom and Order (1966).
How do you want your life to be? Round, smooth and predictable? Or dented, unique and moving in unexpected directions? This piece by Christopher Sherrod made think about how I see my life.
I embrace #individuality and #serendipity, and reject #groupthink and trends. By acknowledging myself, warts and all, I know that I can always find #meaning and #fullfilment in my life.
https://christophersherrod.com/dented-ping-pong-ball-fulfilling-life/
What if the thing that disrupted your life is the very thing that can make it better? In this personal essay, I share how my cat’s dented ping pong ball became a lesson in embracing unexpected change. After a grand mal seizure forced me to give up driving and abandon old plans, I had to rebuild my life from the ground up. What felt like damage turned out to be direction. This is a reflection on resilience, identity, and how to build a fulfilling life when nothing goes according to plan.
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