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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
21d ago“Was the House Leadership Team's mega fundraiser just hours before releasing the budget justified?”
- js061256...
Hi everyone — I’m Jay Thomas Williams. I’m a writer, coach, speaker, and public thinker. My work centers on one core idea: love is not just a private feeling. Love is the state, structure, and organizing principle of reality. For me, that becomes practical through relationship.... - Paulleverich...
I learned early that trust is not a feeling. It is a system. Not the soft kind people talk about in rooms with dim lighting and expensive coffee. The operational kind.... - Godless Guru...
Good to see that you overcame the false notion that exemplifying transparency and dedication doesn’t automatically cause others to follow. That some or most others follow is to be desired, but still not realistic, for we really only see desirable attributes in others and... I appreciate both of these points - "it takes an awful lot to raise your hand and say "I have something to teach people about how to think and how to live." and charisma is a competence that produces outsized changes—this is an especially relevant characteristic with politicians... - david...
There is still too much 1st tier hierarchy in Dalio's 2nd tier heterarchy, meaning that he is (or was) ultimately the King of Bridgewater such that the cult(ure) trended toward very clever yes-men sycophants organized in circles of gate keepers (this is my own guess, without... Yeah I agree, it's definitely an aspirational edge that hasn't been well explored yet. The book definitely doesn't paint Dalio in a good picture. A lot of it I could excuse in terms of behavioral differences but certain aspects like rigging the algorithms seems just bad.... - zookatron...
Fair enough, this goes back to my first point in my first reply. Obviously managing the American empire is much more complicated than an ICE, but I see that more as a symptom of bad leaders rather than a cause of leadership being hard.... - zookatron...
Agreed, and given that I am not very optimistic about finding a perfect process or system that prevents issues like the accretion and overreach of power, I definitely resonate with the desire you express in your original post about wanting to have better people working in places... 2) I think this is a well know phenomenon, but re my claim here is maybe we already have plenty of decent leaders, and our challenge is in selecting the good ones Most talented young leaders today would rather found a startup than get involved in politics. And why not?... Feels like our closest examples to this in the past century, in the US President case, are JFK and George W Bush (a bit tongue in cheek for sure)? Or from a different angle one might say LBJ who fought his way up the ladder the hard way, his whole life...probably a number of... I'm also chewing on something around "governance", "rule", "in charge." Reading your post, those aspects of reality, someone ruling or being in charge, seems assumed, and I think probably in some way that's totally right, but in some way I'm imagining that part of the synthesis... - annabeth...
That said, gamechangers should be given reasonable space for imperfections. Often they're able to change the game because of their obsessive singlemindedness, which leaves gaping holes in other areas of life....