👍 We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us on or spare us

Liked We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us on or spare us by Doug BelshawDoug Belshaw (Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel)

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an example where, without any contextualisation, an individual or organisation has taken something ‘off the shelf’ and applied it to achieve uniformly fantastic results. That’s not how these things work.

Humans are complex organisms; we’re not machines. For a given input you can’t expect the same output. We’re not lossless replicators.

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