Freedom • Responsibility • Power
“The iceberg is melting rapidly. So very sorry.” Recently, I had an unforeseen hiatus for many weeks. I didn’t anticipate it, but thankfully it was useful. I learned several things, and also unlearned a few more things. What is the saying? — Nothing is wasted. Initially I wrote several paragraphs explaining the reasoning for…
“Nobody likes change because the status quo feels safer, it’s familiar, we’re used to it. Change feels like redirecting the riverbed: effortful and risky. It’s so much easier to imagine that what we don’t know won’t hurt us.” —Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril (2011), p. 91