Interesting interview. Thank you both. It's instructive to compare the success of the little people against the Chinese company versus the sad state of autonomy in Myanmar more widely. I would have liked to hear your guest's thoughts on the limitations of small actions. Of course the actions were not small for those who saved their sacred lands.
On another issue, now 67, since the age of 14, I wanted to understand why humans treat each other so poorly, much of the time. That has always driven me, in hidden ways until a major spiritual awakening at the age of 37, when I gained enough understanding to be able to consciously steer my own life, to some non-zero degree. Yet, I chose a career (engineering, in the one department at my school that had a co-op) where I could start partially supporting myself at age 19. Maybe even then, I "understood" that economic self-sufficiency would allow me freedoms that would be otherwise denied.
Hi Debbie, thanks for this message, this question, "why humans treat each other so poorly, much of the time" has come up a few times over the course of these interviews. It is a fascinating one to sit with.
Superb conversation. The framing of potential as stored energy rather than something external to develop really shifts the question from "how do I build potential" to "what's blocking it." I've seen this in my own work where curiosity-driven projects feel effortless compared to obligation-driven ones, even when the latter pays better. The real challnege is building systems that let people release that energy instead of hoarding it til retirement or worse.
Interesting interview. Thank you both. It's instructive to compare the success of the little people against the Chinese company versus the sad state of autonomy in Myanmar more widely. I would have liked to hear your guest's thoughts on the limitations of small actions. Of course the actions were not small for those who saved their sacred lands.
On another issue, now 67, since the age of 14, I wanted to understand why humans treat each other so poorly, much of the time. That has always driven me, in hidden ways until a major spiritual awakening at the age of 37, when I gained enough understanding to be able to consciously steer my own life, to some non-zero degree. Yet, I chose a career (engineering, in the one department at my school that had a co-op) where I could start partially supporting myself at age 19. Maybe even then, I "understood" that economic self-sufficiency would allow me freedoms that would be otherwise denied.
Hi Debbie, thanks for this message, this question, "why humans treat each other so poorly, much of the time" has come up a few times over the course of these interviews. It is a fascinating one to sit with.
Superb conversation. The framing of potential as stored energy rather than something external to develop really shifts the question from "how do I build potential" to "what's blocking it." I've seen this in my own work where curiosity-driven projects feel effortless compared to obligation-driven ones, even when the latter pays better. The real challnege is building systems that let people release that energy instead of hoarding it til retirement or worse.
Thanks Neural Foundry. And yes, I agree on where the real challenge lies.