December 26th, 2021
- this is relevant to thanking at whatever point I might write something up about that, and also feels relevant to the apologize in the other person's frame; forgive in your own frame thing
- > I can't recommend enough the habit of being specific about what you're thanking someone for, every time
- > Name the love the people around you bring into the world NAME IT OUT LOUD
- > also if u want, try naming things in ways that reveal the truth worth thanking
thanx for giving me a ride home ➡️ thanks for taking time to help me get home safe
thanks for sharing food ➡️ thanks for helping me stay nourished n happy
- > When you go too fast, mistakes cascade.
When you go slow, mistakes instruct.
(Slow and steady, that is. Stop-and-start slow can be a series of ignorant start overs.)
- > If you'll pardom me going all economist for a bit, two interesting parallel things that occur to me that this links up to...
1. This is a classic market for lemons. From the outside you can't tell how good a specialist is, which drives down price, pricing good specialists out.
2. This makes me think of Kenneth Arrow's "The Limits of Organization", in which he argues that one of the main benefits of organisations is creating high trust low information friction environments. In an organisation you (ideally) *can* tell who is good.
Putting (1) and (2) together, one of the big reasons it's hard to find good specialists is that they mostly go work for organisations where they can be accurately valued rather than striking out on their own where they're subject to the whims of the market for lemons.
And the only people who go against that are ones where they've got enough initial capital and enough demand to weather out the building reputation period safe in the knowledge that once they have that reputation they can charge appropriate and still get enough work to net win- from David MacIver
- > My 10 y.o was in school for 1 week. Now he's quarantining for 2 weeks. And his teacher won't respond to me asking for his missed work. No online option this year
All because his friend's parents didnt want the school to know they had covid. They didn't want to make it a "thing"
- this, as stated, doesn't quite deny but sorta ignores the part where they could threaten to take away something that you have, materially, emotionally, socially, etc