"'Sometimes we have to choose between being right and being effective' - this might be the most important relationship advice ever given, and it applies way beyond personal relationships.
And yes, we do have a historical perspective gap. We're drowning in commentary from people who seem to think context started with their first Google search. These days, it's ChatGPT.
Really enjoying your short takes posts. Summarizing some profound wisdom will linking to all the posts/references to allow us to go deeper. Great stuff brother
Your psychologies are spot on. The model of each of these schools have done me more good than all the “education” I’ve gotten in my entire life. Great wisdom here, Baird.
Thanks Sam. Interesting to reflect on the thinkers who really illuminate the human condition and provide practical actionable wisdom that “works”. They are rare and precious minds and deserve our promotion, which was my intention in those 2 essays.
"the harsh glare of science". Sad but true. We live in a time when men and women strive and sacrifice their entire lives to learn how to bring forward insights - both big and small - about our world. These insights are too often ignored, discarded, opposed. They are called lies and their authors liars. The "glare" is faint indeed.
We have traveled far only to return to our starting point- from an age of ignorance, self interest and propaganda (think Galileo and the Church and everything that came before), to a brief interim of enlightenment (Newton, Einstein and a world of open minds and wonder, when wonder was a good thing and not to be scorned), and back to ignorance and propaganda (Fauci and the age of Trump, where there is no truth, only lies and "weasel words"). We all have a rendezvous with death. I hope to see truth triumph before mine.
Thanks for reading and for that good comment, Grant. I have come to see scientists as a rare phenotype (the real 'sapients') that is perceived by the standard model as either silly or dangerous. They are the only mutation that transmits knowledge across the generational boundary via documentation. Every other group starts from scratch at birth. Hence, round and round she goes. Gag.
There are three kinds of people:
Creators/builders
Destroyers
Bystanders
We have a choice of which to be.
Within certain genetic limits, yes.
"'Sometimes we have to choose between being right and being effective' - this might be the most important relationship advice ever given, and it applies way beyond personal relationships.
And yes, we do have a historical perspective gap. We're drowning in commentary from people who seem to think context started with their first Google search. These days, it's ChatGPT.
Have a good Wednesday afternoon Baird...
Thanks for commenting, Neela. You're halfway to the weekend! ☀️🌴
I know - so exciting :)
Really enjoying your short takes posts. Summarizing some profound wisdom will linking to all the posts/references to allow us to go deeper. Great stuff brother
Thanks very much, Kyle. Quick for me, easy for the reader. A win-win format for sure!
Your psychologies are spot on. The model of each of these schools have done me more good than all the “education” I’ve gotten in my entire life. Great wisdom here, Baird.
Thanks Sam. Interesting to reflect on the thinkers who really illuminate the human condition and provide practical actionable wisdom that “works”. They are rare and precious minds and deserve our promotion, which was my intention in those 2 essays.
"the harsh glare of science". Sad but true. We live in a time when men and women strive and sacrifice their entire lives to learn how to bring forward insights - both big and small - about our world. These insights are too often ignored, discarded, opposed. They are called lies and their authors liars. The "glare" is faint indeed.
We have traveled far only to return to our starting point- from an age of ignorance, self interest and propaganda (think Galileo and the Church and everything that came before), to a brief interim of enlightenment (Newton, Einstein and a world of open minds and wonder, when wonder was a good thing and not to be scorned), and back to ignorance and propaganda (Fauci and the age of Trump, where there is no truth, only lies and "weasel words"). We all have a rendezvous with death. I hope to see truth triumph before mine.
Thanks for reading and for that good comment, Grant. I have come to see scientists as a rare phenotype (the real 'sapients') that is perceived by the standard model as either silly or dangerous. They are the only mutation that transmits knowledge across the generational boundary via documentation. Every other group starts from scratch at birth. Hence, round and round she goes. Gag.