we’d plan tax reform BEFORE income distribution undergoes the full onslaught of machine automation.
The UN would fund and deploy aerial nano-bots that fly around the World destroying unregistered guns.
religious opinion leaders would MODERNISE religious doctrine to accommodate future technological change.
we’d REFORM things in society before the flat part of the (technology) exponential curve turns into the steep part of the exponential curve.
Government social services would MANAGE people’s expectations in a honest way upfront, not deal with people in a patronising way afterwards. Prevention is usually cheaper that cure.
we’d APPOINT lobby groups to represent the animal kingdom and not pretend that humans and corporates have all the votes and all the freedom to act.
We’d ENCOURAGE people to self-learn to cope with global changes in progress.
The day AI takes over human medical research, is the day we surrender control of our destiny.
Flash trading of financial futures is split-second trading on our own futures.
Gene therapy (GM that removes cruelty and indifference) was never needed so desperately on a mass scale, as when there is human suffering, rainforest deforestation, ocean pollution and global warming.
Politics and credit – the art of stealing opportunity from the future to buy votes and gadgets in the present.
The borders we sit behind are insignificant compared to the technology, fame and entertainment we seek.
Management
The act of joining staff hands around a customer’s needs.
The act of applying electricity to hand-powered components.
Mining the magic and monitoring the wagon train.
Build it amazing and customer wow will come.
Leadership versus Management
Great management is leading by example. Great leadership is providing an example for others to better.
Management is ensuring there’s no explosion in the paint factory. Leadership is creating Pollock art that turns management on its head.
Work for yourself by working for others.
Work for yourself by working to help others.
Work for yourself by being more than the sum of your parts.
Since perhaps your purpose is an extension of everyone you know or can reach.
Work for yourself by looking at your own Balance Sheet from time to time.
Not just the one that’s expressed in dollars,
But the one expressed with assets like integrity, impact and connections made,
And liabilities such as tense relationships, regrets and pain experienced.
Work for yourself by walking the tightrope between spontaneity and structure,
Ambition and reflection, advice and personal action.
Work for yourself 24/7, or at least aspire to.
After all, if you get it right, life will probably work for you.
Young life breathes quickly,
Quick movements wanting help from all around.
Middle life is breathless for romance, parenthood and recognition.
Old age breathes as a sigh.
A sigh of contentment. A sigh of weariness.
Until it breathes its last expectation.
Job done.
Some friendships are two parts cocktail and one part empathy.
Some friends fade into the past, like beautiful ripples on a pond.
Friends make the journey seem shorter and the load lighter.
Life without friends is a day without sunshine.
No matter where you travel to on the Globe, good friends are there to find, wanting your camaraderie, just as you seek theirs.
Perhaps the best friendships (for heterosexuals) are with the opposite sex. They challenge you to be at your best and bring out the best in you.
Compartmentalise to cope.
Pick, mix and cook to progress.
