Childhood agreeableness leads to fewer savings in old age.
Wow. Turns out the agreeable bunch are so easy to “help out,” including finances (because anything is better than conflict) that it potentially leaves them “up a creek without a paddle,” later on.
More importantly, what this means is, I've been right all along! Sharing is stupid, for everyone except the receiving individual.
Why the fuck would I want to share with you? I had two, now I only have one, how is this better for me?
Someone once answered,” because you need that individual to share with you later.” Share what? If they had fuck-all now, how will they have less than fuck-all later?
As a noun: the act or an instance of suspecting something wrong without proof or on slight evidence.
When suspicion is left unchecked, it fast morphs into distrust. These are not the same thing.
As a verb: to have no trust or confidence in... Unchecked distrust breeds distance. Creating physical or mental distance is a natural, inbuilt, response to a threat – perceived or otherwise.
Investigate suspicions vigorously and without apology because the alternative may be even more difficult to live with.
Finding the proof, or lack thereof, quickly, is better than stewing in suspicion.
Guard against raising any idea, moral or habit to a status of sacred. The moment we allow this to happen, it becomes something which cannot be challenged, questioned or modified.
This may seem a noble idea, but it is not, it is dangerous. You need only look back in history to see just how perilous it can be. Being resolute is not to be confused with being a zealot.
Athletes will tell you they envision themselves crossing the line in first position. Lifters picture themselves completing the lift and racing drivers run the corners through their mind tirelessly. This, is to a degree, the same concept as positive affirmation, and it works.
After reading a blog post Imagination https://write.as/excerpts/imagination it occurred to me, this technique would work equally well in negative conditions. Picture the problem and picture yourself overcoming the problem. If it works in one orientation, it will work in the opposite too.
Is there a more infuriating industry in the world than tech? Probably not.
Imagine ordering a cake and when it arrives it has no icing. Or a car which upon collection has only three wheels fitted and is missing a steering wheel. This is tech.
The idea that anyone can release to market, something, as is, and pick up the mistakes as they go along is infantile. Yet, this is tech.
In no other industry, known to man, will we accept half of the product, or a faulty product... accept tech.
Here is a brilliant idea for AI, take over the testing of these tech-wankers faulty tech. That way we all win.
Let us begin with power. Power is a perception, it is an abstract idea which must be agreed upon by more than one. Without the agreement and relinquishment of power (from one party to the other) power cannot have an effect or indeed exist at all.
Perception of power is the worst. This is when a group or individual, believes they yield a power over another, without the other being a party to the agreement. In other words, you think you are the shit when in reality you are just shit.
This is the driving force in many customer-supplier relationships. The customer somehow perceives power over the supplier, they are paying for a service and so, they own the supplier.
The last mile provider always endures this perception of power. An individual is frustrated with the delays, holdups, unforeseen costs. Instead of having the backbone to address the providers in the chain who matter, they vent on the last mile provider.
Use your head. Correct mistakes at the appropriate level. Venting on the last mile provider will serve no purpose.
Stop having conversations by email. It is rendering emails useless, in all respects.
The empty inbox is a thing of mystic fantasy, reserved for the old and infirm. No, correct that, even the infirm have a brimming mailbox because someone has to process all the paperwork.
Sadly, it is unlikely we will do away with email in my lifetime; email is fast becoming the bane of all our lives. It is ridiculously over utilised, mostly incorrectly at that. There is but one way to reverse this. We need to use it as originally intended. Use it to send what was previously sent by post or courier: documents and information.
Enough with the one-liner discussions, I beg you! If you need to discuss anything, use the phone. Or, if this is too scary a proposition, send all your damned requests and questions on one email. That way, the recipient can call you and get the misery done and dusted once and for all.
Courtesy is a good thing any time of the year, with one exception: email. You are wasting yet more time with the how-do-you-do-thank-you email. These must be processed by the receiving end, just like any other. What you think is a good idea is nothing more than a drain on resources. Stop it! Convey the documents and or information and get off.
I have a great idea for a study, survey or even educated-guess-calculation. Why not try to calculate how many man-hours are wasted on procedures, implemented with the aim of protection against corruption?
I, for one, think it would be mind-blowing. World shattering to such a degree, it may not be that good an idea after all, serving only to plunge us all into depression. The very thought of what we all could – and should – be doing instead? Shortened work days? More useful research? I have no idea.
One thing is for sure, we spend at least one third of our time attending to tasks of this nature. I would venture to say it could even be as much as half.
Keep in mind, corruption infiltrates even the lowest of levels. It is not reserved for the mighty. If you lie on a time sheet, you are corrupt. If you take more than one pen from the supply cupboard, you are corrupt. Corrupt: “having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.”
Any dishonesty equates to corruption. The more corruption, the more procedures designed to combat it. The more procedures, the more time you and I spend doing useless work and jumping through the useless-work-hoops of others.
Lifelong learning means you can learn whatever you want to learn. This in and of itself makes learning easier. Learning doesn't have to be something someone else says it is, it can be whatever you want it to be.
Never discard information as useless. Even information you think couldn't possibly be valuable, ever, may come in handy when you least expect it. It may just be the titbit you need to spark the conversion you need to germinate the seeds of a big deal.
Read. Learn. Read and learn some more. Steel with your eyes and ears, and never be so conceited to think you know more than anyone else, they have nothing to teach you. Stop speaking and listen occasionally, you'll be amazed at what you hear.
When did support become an optional extra, like a panoramic roof, or the GPS package? What the fuck? If I pay for your product – yes software is still a product no matter how much you overstate it in your hyperbolic mind – then best you offer after-sale-service.
It's bizarre; we are offered service levels by package. They couldn't even be bothered to mask it. If you're on the lower package you are going to get scum-class service. How the fuck can that be right?