I like that you bring up Biomimicry here and Taleb's work. It's my deep interest to understand the time tested wisdom of 'Nature'. To do our best to understand it and work from that understanding in how we function in the world. For example I have designed "antifagile" aspects into our business OS and it helps me sleep at night.
Yes, I like the redundancy of using a gmail account alongside our CRM as well as Quickbooks too. That way if any one of those systems is down for some reason, hopefully we can access client data thru the others. Our CRM and gmail work really well together based on order #s which are automatically inserted into the subject line of email and make it easy to search for in gmail, it works great and it's pretty antifragile. I know an associate who has built all these aspects into a Bubble website system, all eggs in one basket. When hackers get a hold of that it's going to be ugly for them I'm afraid.
Hey Max...I enjoy reading you partly for quotes like this:
"Geostates are not pre-ordained by the human condition. They should not be taken as inevitable. We should especially consider the extent to which technology influences the meaning of geography." Followed by your "Indeed". No doubt about it.
BUT...my primary caution is that when we DO "especially consider the extent"...we do not run break-neck to the greatest extreme application we can imagine. Disney's incessant tune "It's a Small World After All" is true...Partly. No, it really is Still a very Large world. It is only our Speed of Travel (auto/train/jet) and Speed of Communication (email, text, internet) that make vast distances seem small.
That we can travel from Sydney to Moscow, or Santiago to Stockholm in hours...(our Confederate father could not imagine...lesser still our Colonial Founders) does NOT make them close, much less Culturally, Linguistically or Philosophically LIKE each other. Travel & Communication speed...do not equal thinking.
HOW we factor in the speed, AI, crypto and the modern obsession with the revolutionary NEW -- to integrate Wisely/slowly with Tradition and the Old "Great Books"...is the critical work of Wisdom! [How...might this change things for us, or maybe our grandkids?] Otherwise, the Revolutionary Spirit of "This-changes-everything!" runs us quickly right back into a new but Old Totalitarianism. [The Peter Thiel (Elon Musk?) Managerial-Surveillance-State...Everyone?]
I understand. This is a good conservative instinct and its wisdom needs to be respected. I guess my response would be this: Progressivism has transformed the West and the pace of the rise of the progressive managerial state is accelerating as they too have technology at their disposal. After a point, we don't have the luxury of standing athwart history yelling stop. We must develop counterpower, or we will be subsumed into the progressive managerial state. My sense of urgency is not because I don't think there is wisdom in recognizing Chesterton's Fence, it is because our enemies on the left and right (authoritarians) are working at a breakneck speed.
I like that you bring up Biomimicry here and Taleb's work. It's my deep interest to understand the time tested wisdom of 'Nature'. To do our best to understand it and work from that understanding in how we function in the world. For example I have designed "antifagile" aspects into our business OS and it helps me sleep at night.
Can you share some of those business insights briefly?
Yes, I like the redundancy of using a gmail account alongside our CRM as well as Quickbooks too. That way if any one of those systems is down for some reason, hopefully we can access client data thru the others. Our CRM and gmail work really well together based on order #s which are automatically inserted into the subject line of email and make it easy to search for in gmail, it works great and it's pretty antifragile. I know an associate who has built all these aspects into a Bubble website system, all eggs in one basket. When hackers get a hold of that it's going to be ugly for them I'm afraid.
Hey Max...I enjoy reading you partly for quotes like this:
"Geostates are not pre-ordained by the human condition. They should not be taken as inevitable. We should especially consider the extent to which technology influences the meaning of geography." Followed by your "Indeed". No doubt about it.
BUT...my primary caution is that when we DO "especially consider the extent"...we do not run break-neck to the greatest extreme application we can imagine. Disney's incessant tune "It's a Small World After All" is true...Partly. No, it really is Still a very Large world. It is only our Speed of Travel (auto/train/jet) and Speed of Communication (email, text, internet) that make vast distances seem small.
That we can travel from Sydney to Moscow, or Santiago to Stockholm in hours...(our Confederate father could not imagine...lesser still our Colonial Founders) does NOT make them close, much less Culturally, Linguistically or Philosophically LIKE each other. Travel & Communication speed...do not equal thinking.
HOW we factor in the speed, AI, crypto and the modern obsession with the revolutionary NEW -- to integrate Wisely/slowly with Tradition and the Old "Great Books"...is the critical work of Wisdom! [How...might this change things for us, or maybe our grandkids?] Otherwise, the Revolutionary Spirit of "This-changes-everything!" runs us quickly right back into a new but Old Totalitarianism. [The Peter Thiel (Elon Musk?) Managerial-Surveillance-State...Everyone?]
I understand. This is a good conservative instinct and its wisdom needs to be respected. I guess my response would be this: Progressivism has transformed the West and the pace of the rise of the progressive managerial state is accelerating as they too have technology at their disposal. After a point, we don't have the luxury of standing athwart history yelling stop. We must develop counterpower, or we will be subsumed into the progressive managerial state. My sense of urgency is not because I don't think there is wisdom in recognizing Chesterton's Fence, it is because our enemies on the left and right (authoritarians) are working at a breakneck speed.