Bruce McTague

"Pessimism is Old World and reactionary." Upwingers: A Futurist Manifesto - FM Esfandiary, 1973

i loved the book Abundance. kind of a rehash of Upwingers & some older books (oddly Small is Beautiful by Schumacher). that said. read it. but read Chokepoints & When More is not Better at same time.

yeah. i kinda feel better is, well, good. positive.

if you have a shitty objective, progress toward that objective (where progress is a verb, not a noun), isn't "better" but rather 'movement toward the objective.' things haven't become 'better', just closer to a shitty objective.

yeah. progress is always "better today than it was yesterday." its growth (often confused/conflated with progress) that can either be positive or negative.

"everything has to do with everything else"

i sort of agree with this.

how about try this. if you feel like a book is becoming a slog, skip to the last chapter and read it. if the last chapter opens up some possibility you didn't envision, the book is worth restarting.

that means we seek efficacy.

a word i am relatively sure DOGE has never heard of.

"we're offering them something better"

every democrat should write this on a notecard and carry it with them everywhere they go. if what they are saying, or doing, is not offering anything to make someone's life better, scrap it.

truth

he's correct. this is also a secret businesses know, well, at least the ones who don't believe business is war .........

The tariffs will continue until morale improves.

this is actually a chapter in Moneyland by Oliver Bullough

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hmmmmmmmmmmm ... prices up for those seeking to buy aluminum. so, once again, the buyer pays for tariffs.

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this

governed by a ship of fools ...

with all due respect to the hype cycle, this is reality ....

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to run a business.

any CEO of any viable business would be fired if this was their mantra, well, unless that CEO was the wealthiest man in the world (or the president).

i do not understand how any experienced business person could support either of these clowns.

it sure seems like most of confirmed Trump cabinet members lied a lot in confirmation meetings (and they aren't even one month in).
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am i the only one who remembers that stable genius, master negotiator, cut Afghanistan out of negotiations and dealt directly with the Taliban?
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memories ....

actually, with all due respect, but it kinda makes one wonder if God is paying attention ...

the question everyone should ask every time they read about something DOGE/Trump has "cut" is "does this make my life better?" 'cause i'm fairly sure even if you voted for Trump you didn't want to "make life worse again".