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You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things. ”
As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in. ”
If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing. ”
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on. ”
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. ”
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. ”
If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur. ”
Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff. ”
A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it. ”
When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter. ”