Readit NewsWhenever you hear a line like that, run the other way. Raw milk. Alkaline water. Pot. Guava leaves. Acupuncture. DMSO. Iron tablets. Fasting. Long, long history of this. The FDA had a museum of the ones that were outright harmful, but it doesn't seem to be on display any more.
A few things are simultaneously true:
1. We have a truly fantastic level of agency as actors in the world. A single human can build a house out of raw materials, write a book series with hundreds of settings and believable characters, start a war, etc.
2. In order to make the most of that agency, we need a psychological system that makes us feel empowered to use it. Having nature's most impressive brain would be pointless if we all believed everything we tried was doomed to fail anyway so we should just sit in the dirt and eat slugs.
3. We are also corporeal objects made of surprisingly fragile meat and bone subject to the careless whims of physics. Through no fault or intention of anyone, all of your agency can be completely taken in an instant. Just be standing in the wrong place when a tree branch snaps off, have one cell misdivide and become cancerous, choke on a grape.
We need 2 in order to make the most of 1. But the more we believe ourselves in control, the more horrific contemplating 3 becomes.
I often wonder if we evolved magical thinking and all of its manifestations like religion, parapsychology, destiny, fate, etc. in order to hold these three realizations in some sort of stable configuration.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Abolish the overtime exemption for computer systems analysts, computer programmers, and software engineers. Make it unprofitable to extract labor until someone dies. All other actions are impotent.
For the next thousand years, Rome effectively controlled much of Europe.
Today, 1500 years later, billions of people all over the world look to Rome for guidance, and Rome still has political sway over large areas of the world.
The goalie trinity right there
We should think of it in terms of “Theory Builders” and “Just get it done-ers”, and think of them as states of mind, rather than a character trait, or something linked to years of experience.
You may have a theory builder straight out of university (after all many go on to do a PhD straight away!), or a theory builder who has the mindset and just came in from a different profession. Or an 8 year old theory builder! You may have someone with 10 years experience writing code who still slings code.
You may also have one person who was a Theory Builder on Monday, and became a "Get it done-er" by Friday due to a deadline.