Strategy means Control

Main error executives make is : goal -≥ execution

Main pattern should be : goal -≥ strategy -≥ execution 

... whereby the application of the pattern is fractal, and has to cascade down to sub-goals. A strategy as a goal will fail if it isn't under control.

So another way to say the same thing is : goal -> control -> execution

Fingers X Toes

Toe-tips are as important as finger-tips, for proprioception, and calibration of all intermediate joints and muscles. But in today's sedentary life, toe-tips are often forgotten during calibrative operations.

Being the Change

I care about people's feelings. I really do. But in an unusual way.

I care that people learn to control their feelings. Generally I care about that for most people - most people are relatively out of control versus my preferred level of control. 

I would much prefer a world where the genes or education system enabled every citizen to be free to choose at a moment's notice if they wanted to blow up a city, or eat their neighbours raw. But this is not the world we live in.

I am working towards a world where this is the case.

Preferences : Instinct vs Policy

It's a bit annoying when people tell me I am trying to appear as if I do not care for things. It's already established that I say I care about a lot of things ... but that's like being able to appreciate all sweet food. I don't want to appreciate sweet food, so I have operational CONTROLS as a matter of policy, to remove sweets.

"Not caring is the policy - of course I care ... it's just my political position to not care :P"

"I thought it was pretty clear"

"Basically if I have to go to war for it ... I will have a strategy that is expressed as a political position"

"You can love someone and still believe the world will be better without them, so you kill them"

":)"

"That's just how it is"

"Do you find this conversation enlightening?"

"Like you learnt more about me?"

Crowd Control / Quality Control

I have had anxious friends. Sometimes I make them more anxious, and they stop being my friends. But that is ok. Because I don't want anxious friends.

Test and filter; up or out.

Sometimes I'll organise meetings, and everyone's okay. Sometimes I've been informed that people are anxious before a meeting - in which case, I should probably work harder to remind everyone to expect to be anxious, because if they enter the meeting defensively, there's probably going to be less collateral damage, and the outcomes are likelier to be overperformant.

Oh well. Crowd control. So many ways about it ... what is true for friends, is also true for staff and business partners.

Polyamory in Finite Time + the Importance of Scaling-to-Zero

Nasikistan was a trading nation, with an excess supply of rice. Five brother nations traded with Nasikistan, buying out the rice, and selling in other goods and services. As the demand for rice grew, the brother nations found they had to bid-up the price of rice, and yet were not able to ask more for their own goods at the present time. A richer brother had more rice, and a poorer brother had less, and diplomatic animosity developed from this situation. In another time, the demand for rice dwindled, and Nasikistan sold rice at low prices previously unheard of. The poorest brother had learnt from their earlier failure, and took this opportunity to stockpile rice, later even developing a futures contract for the same. And so the economy of rice in the region developed more and more sophistication. Another brother did not want to participate in the new financial instruments, and so faced certain classical difficulties no longer faced by the other brothers - dissatisfied by its position, it announced that it would withdraw from trade entirely, forming an island nation.

The same is true of polyamorous relationships ( between individuals, or businesses ) - people will ask for more or less, but ultimately time is a finite resource, and not all individuals require other people's time if the cost is too high. Price elasticity is a thing! And so is scaling to zero ...