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Comment · 3 years ago
> I learnt a few things from this. The first is, some companies or organisations within them need failure in order to progress.

Encountered a similar situation a few years back while working for a government client. My advice to the team was that we needed to “let the train wreck happen.”

Comment · 3 years ago
When Benjamin Franklin went to London to apprentice as a printmaker, his English peers in the print shop were impressed with both his industry and productivity. One other significant difference was that unlike his coworkers, he didn’t drink on the job.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ideologues of all stripes hope to manifest a society that reflects their own values. The electoral process is one avenue for achieving this end, though it does generally require popular opinion to be on your side. The upside of these types of pressure campaigns is that it allows ideologues to achieve their ends without sacrificing the purity of their own conviction.

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