The wrong idea at the wrong time is a disaster.
The wrong idea at the right time is a mistake.
The right idea at the wrong time is unacceptable.
The right idea at the right time creates the potential for success.
Right idea, right time
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Should I learn French?
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
-Genesis 11:5-6
As one who loves the process, practice, and fruit of communication – how do you handle this text?
Creativity or death.
While the no-collar workspace certainly appears more casual than the old, it replaces traditional hierarchical systems of control with new forms of motivations, which I call soft control. In this setting, we strive to work more independently and find it much harder to cope with incompetent managers and bullying bosses. We trade job security for autonomy. In addition to being fairly compensated for the work we do and the skills we bring, we want the ability to learn and grow, shape the content of our work, control our own schedules and express our identities through work. And companies of all types, including large established ones, are adapting to this change by striving to create new workplaces that are more amenable to creative work. In this, they have no choice: Either they will create these kinds of environments or they will wither and die.
from The Rise Of The creative Class by Richard Florida
Steinbeck on wealth
A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on it’s knees, miserable, greedy, sick.
-An excerpt from a letter John Steinbeck wrote to Adlai Stevenson, which was recorded in the January 28, 1960 edition of the Washington Post, which was referenced in Money Possessions and Eternity, which I am currently reading. Lest you should wonder why I’m reading Steinbeck’s mail.