It's Important To Remember That

Are We Changing As Fast As The World Around Us?

I Live A Half Mile From The San Andreas Fault - A Fact That Bubbles Up Into My Consciousness Every Time Some Other Part Of The World Experiences An Earthquake. I Sometimes Wonder Whether This Subterranean Sense Of Impending Disaster Is At Least Partly Responsible For Silicon Valley's Feverish, Get-it-done-yesterday Work Norms.

Taking Risks, Breaking The Rules, And Being A Maverick Have Always Been Important But Today They Are More Crucial Than Ever.

In An Ideal World, An Individual's Institutional Power Would Be Correlated Perfectly With His Or Her Value-add. In Practice, This Is Seldom The Case.

Top-down Authority Structures Turn Employees Into Bootlickers, Breed Pointless Struggles For Political Advantage, And Discourage Dissent.