What I find the most frustrating is that all these old folks have been in office long enough to have mentored at least a dozen people who they SHOULD feel is able to carry on their legacy into the new era but they just cling to power instead.
Some progressive policies are popular, some are unpopular, some vary in popularity based on how the policy is polled. The point is a policy’s popularity is simply not a factor if it cant get past the first and most important filter which is “does the donor class approve of this”
Government is a miraculous, complex technology and if we want it to work better, we need to act like it.
Introducing the SF Government Graph - the first complete map of San Francisco's government
Your spiritual life begins the day you deeply understand the fact that everyone you know and love, including yourself, is one day going to die.
-- Carlos Castaneda
(via Steve Armstrong)
One thing I didn’t realize until later in life is how the incentives of an industry shape your mood, your outlook, and even your character. In early stage investing, the incentives reward optimists, so it literally pays to keep an optimistic outlook. In journalism, the opposite is true. In law, the incentives often reward finding the flaw or the anomaly. In litigation, a combative nature is rewarded.
It’s later in career when you realize that disposition matters. Looking back there were careers that were antithetical to my nature, even if I had the functional skills to do them well. This may sound obvious but not a single person ever told me this.
Pretty darn good Dartmouth commencement speech from tennis great Roger Federer.
Read the whole thing: https://t.co/k4vJSrbYjU
Or ponder these paragraphs about the dangers of perfectionism and the need to move past mistakes: