"When people get rich, they shed their skin-in-the-game-driven experiential mechanism. They lose control of their preferences, substituting constructed preferences for their own, complicating their lives unnecessarily, triggering their own misery." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
‘Survelliance capitalism offers a new template for our future: the machine hive in which our freedom is forfeit to perfect knowledge administered for others’ profit’ Zuboff 2019 #survelliancecapitalism
‘When people resist adaptive work, their goal is to shut down those who exercise leadership in order to preserve what they have.’ - Leadership on the Line @RonHeifetz@martylinsky
‘The discovery of behavioural surplus had produced a...3,590% increase in revenue in less than four years.’ Zuboff, #Surveillance Capitalism. @shoshanazuboff
The best training you can offer yourself is detecting circularity. It teaches you to think not just forward in 2nd, 3rd steps, but backward in minus 1st, 2nd steps, etc.
Modernity is full of circularities (education, citation rings, journalism, classifications, IQ, psychology...)
‘We become unbalanced by overlooking ourselves: by focusing on what others, rather than ourselves, need to be doing.’ Kahane, A ‘Collaborating with the enemy’.
Find yourself blaming governments, systems or something else, when collaborations aren’t achieving their outcomes, remember, ‘blaming others is a common and lazy way to avoid doing our own work’. @adamkahane#collaboration#systemschange
So true. When playgroups are multicultural they are also a highly effective place to break down cultural barriers and increase awareness. #playgroupsvictoriaconference#dorothyscott
...’the word itself does nothing very useful: most often it is nothing more than a box to be ticked, a little god to which obeisance must be rendered, as if by intoning ‘innovation’ (managers, policiticans) might call up the secret powers of capitalism and its high priests’
A thoughtful take on innovation. ‘a husk of a word with just the pretence of truth, little different from a fiction or a lie...so long as the new is better than the old’ - Don Watson.