Creator of System Whispering as a discipline. Talks about wellbeing, change, learning, complexity, & photography for wellbeing. NYC PHOTO-Synthesis photowalks.
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Here’s all of the career pauses I’ve had.
- HS to military
- Military to civilian
- Military was a “gap year” b/c I did not know what I wanted career wise
- 5-6 career type pivots
- voluntary seps.
- involuntary seps (sep pckg.)
- layoffs
- sabbaticals (on 3rd)
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I get so tired of the blathering about the duping, the mind virus, or deceit & hypocrisy of the “other side.”
If all of this is on 1 side in some form, a version of it also exists on your end of the spectrum.
If you are at either extreme, you are just as bad as the other.
Tech people may want the status quo because they know we’ve bought into the myth that tech can be used to fix anything.
It has accomplished quite a nice model for ensuring repeat business after each implementation barely moves the needle.
I don’t think it matters what you built if the thinking that went into building that thing simply perpetuates what’s always been done.
People will see the size of that built thing and think the builder of it is then intelligent about everything & fall to their knees to worship.
When work has a legacy symptom and a cottage industry has popped up around mitigating that symptom…
and the cottage industry gurus are the only ones offering “solutions”
you have a broken system.
I tends to stay out of politics b/c it’s such a shit show but I’m thinking about a recent event.
Feeling like one has to suggest that the ear “has a lot of blood flow” through it feels like a “tell” about something that did not go as planned.
Why would one utter such a thing?
Like, if you’re shot, you’re going to bleed quite a bit.
So why have to say this specifically?
Was it not supposed to be that much?
This is great except for the “tech bros want innovation” part.
Tech bros want the data of iterating incrementally along various “problem solving” fronts so that they can keep customers in a vicious “problem solving” loop.
About as far from innovation as possible.
LOL!
A guy who founded a tech accelerator in a tech-obsessed system and market talking about how to teach kids to avoid conformism.
That’s some good ish!
It’s just maybe just a higher level (re: compensated) level of conformism.
There can be a thing where actual humans have been aligned with the biz artifacts vs holding onto any vestige of remaining human that they become an artifact themselves.
Well TBF, he is more aligned with system artifacts vs remaining beholden to any human elements, so….
The purpose of a system (and its artifacts) is what it does.
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Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says it's not up to companies like his to ensure their employee's personal #wellbeing & work-life balance:
"It’s your job to take care of your mind, body, spirit, soul, friends, family & health. It’s your job, it’s not our job”
#Leadership
I’ve not been posting here for a long hot minute but there’s been a revelation.
And it comes out of learning photography.
It comes down to our capacity for art.
Not the physical manifestation but simply the art of thinking.
When we are un-curious, we usually just attempt to iterate on the past.
Thus we end up with mostly incremental interactive tweaks and not much genuine change.
We need to improve the art of our thinking by reconnecting with curiosity.
Think about what our most original, fundamental mood / emotion was that gave us a strong sense of autonomy.
As adults, most ideas are born out of system artifacts vs human curiosity, thus the loss of sense for autonomy.
We turn to the system to tell us what to do then blame it
A 40+ year study proved that #wellbeing & longevity are all tied to having autonomy. The more control people feel they have, the better off they are.
The #leadership take-away: Build up the confidence in your people, & then empower them to perform as independently as possible.
