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September 30 - October 29, 2024
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
when you press the pause button on human beings they start,”
Patience wasn’t just the absence of speed. It was space for reflection and thought.”
‘Disruption’ is what happens when someone does something clever that makes you or your company look obsolete. ‘Dislocation’ is when the whole environment is being altered so quickly that everyone starts to feel they can’t keep up.”
To enhance stability in rapids it’s important to move as fast or faster than the current. Every time you rudder or drag your paddle in the water to steer you lose momentum and that makes you more vulnerable to flipping over.
The future will belong to those who have the self-motivation to take advantage of all the free and cheap tools and flows coming out of the supernova.
Fact #1: The necessary is impossible. Fact #2: The impossible is necessary.
never confuses stability with stasis.
Today, “if you can imagine it, it will happen,” argues Eric Leuthardt, the neuroscientist. “It is just a matter of how much it will cost.
When people trust each other, they can be much more adaptable and open to all forms of pluralism. When people trust each other, they can think long-term. When there is trust in the room, people are more inclined to collaborate and experiment—to open themselves up to others, to new ideas, and to novel approaches—and to extending the Golden Rule. They also don’t waste energy investigating every mistake; they feel free to fail and try again and fail again and try again.
“Collaboration moves at the speed of trust,”
when the world is fast, if you get off course—as a leader, a teacher, a student, an investor, an employee—you can find yourself with a very long road back. Small errors in navigation can have really serious consequences when the Market, Mother Nature, and Moore’s law are all accelerating at this speed.
