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Monthly Archives: December 2017
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #13
Democracy breaks down when one side tries to win at the expense of their opponents, instead of trying to find ways to get to win-win.
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Tagged observations about society, politics
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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #12
The tighter the election, the more your vote counts. It’s not the total number of votes cast—it’s the difference between winning and losing. If you had stayed home, the margin would have changed that much.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #11
Mechanics, doctors, and dentists: It’s best to know yours before you need them.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #10
Ideology is what humans use to justify to ourselves doing things we know are wrong. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said this in The Gulag Archipelago)
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #9
My friend Loyd once said that nobody is against profit. However, a lot of us are against loot.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #8
Averages don’t tell the whole story. As a friend once pointed out, if you picture a man with one foot in a bucket of ice water and the other in a campfire, on average, he’s comfortable.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #7
Park near the cart return, not the front door of the store.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #6
Oliver Loud, a professor at Antioch College, said, “Learning is the creative use of error.” That’s why learning often comes out of painful experience, but also why creativity can change everything!
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #5
A simple solution to a complex problem almost always fails, or at least, causes more problems than it solves. (H.L. Mencken’s famous quip said something along these lines.)
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #4
A sharp blade is safer than a dull one.