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   Stefano Marinelli (stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jun-2026 07:15:05 JST Stefano Marinelli

   This morning, after dealing with two emergencies at once, on a Saturday, yay, I decided to go out for a short walk.

   I was walking close to the wall when someone who lives nearby hit my arm with their car's side mirror while speeding past.

   It's not the first time something like this has happened. They've hit the low wall outside my house more than once, and once they almost rear-ended me after ignoring a stop sign. They're one of those people who take the car even to go 100 metres, and are always in a rush.

   I had already spoken to them politely, asking them to slow down, especially between the houses. This morning they stopped and started yelling at me, as if it were my fault for walking near my own home instead of driving. I was pressed up against the wall. They had all the room in the world to pass.

   I almost lost my temper, but still calmly told them that, in my view, walking 250 metres is more normal than taking the car, speeding around, and risking hitting someone. Especially for completely pointless errands, though I didn't say that part out loud.

   At that point they snapped, shouting that I'm the idle one because I "go for walks" and clearly have nothing better to do with my life. Then they suggested, provocatively, that I should find some interests like theirs: they were going to "check that there wasn't any dog poop along the country lane".
   Something useful, apparently.

   I told them they were right. Maybe I should.
   I’m (probably) so bored!

   #SaturdayFun

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   Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 15:27:46 JST Nietzschean Ekko Enjoyer

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   @cjd
   Needless romantization of flawed, outdated technology we've grown past.

   It'd be a bit like saying "90s computers were more alive because they had super loud fans and hard drive clicks" or "VHS was more alive because of the wow effect"

   In fact, this video gave me huge Ren Faire and "millennial burger joint" vibes.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Friday, 05-Dec-2025 21:03:40 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "The hubris of experience guarantees failure." - Futurist Jim Carroll
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   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing his end-of-2025 / introduction-to-2026 series, 26 Principles for 2026. You can follow along at 2026.jimcarroll.com. He welcomes your comments.
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   We are on Day 12.

   We’ve spent the last two weeks stripping away the internal barriers to speed—the fear, the linear forecasting, the lack of collaboration, and the organizational complexity (Day 11).

   Now, we face the final, most formidable internal enemy. It’s not out there in the market. It’s looking back at you in the mirror.

   It's you.

   It is the ego of the successful leader. To really get ahead in 2026, you need to understand the trap of hubris and why your past success can be your biggest future liability.

   What do you need to think about? The challenge of successful experience and why it can get in your way.

   In a linear, slow-moving world, 30 years of continued success was your most valuable asset. It proved you knew the formula. You had "seen it all." Your intuition was unimpeachable wisdom. You knew exactly what to do, when it needed to be done, and how to do it.

   Those days are gone.

   In an exponential world, where entire industries are being reinvented every few years, that same 30 years of experience can become a catastrophic liability. Why? Because it can get in the way. It blinds you. It clouds your judgment. It can bring to light your lack of skills in how to respond to the profound changes that are underway. It conditions you to believe that the future will behave like the past.

   It locks you into old pattern recognition for entirely new patterns!

   When you combine a track record of linear success with an exponential shift in reality, you get a dangerous psychological condition I have written about extensively, and that's the trap of hubris.

   It’s the arrogance that says, "I know better than anyone else." It’s the belief that your past wins grant you immunity from future disruption. It is the ultimate drag on velocity because a leader or individual blinded by hubris will drive full speed off a cliff, ignoring every warning sign along the way because they are convinced their internal map is better than the external terrain.

   The discipline you must master to avoid this fate is Strategic Humility.

   You need to know what it is, how to identify it, how to avoid it - and how to shed it!

   Read the post to learn how.

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   **#2026** **#Change** **#Navigate** **#Future** **#Inspiration** **#Principles** **#Speed** **#Growth** **#Guidance** **#Exponential**

   Futurist Jim Carroll has seen a lot of hubris within the leadership teams has has spoken to, as part of his keynote preparation process - and that insight has shaped the way he has pulled together his trends and innovation keynote.

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/12/decoding-tomorrow-mastering-2026-12-strategic-humility-the-hubris-of-experience-guarantees-failure/

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   Marco Arment (marcoarment@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Aug-2025 00:49:27 JST Marco Arment

   It’s naive to believe Cook can ever satisfy Trump for more than a day. It will never be enough. It never is, for anyone.

   There is no lasting peace between Trump and anyone. Once you placate him, the only way to stay in his good grace is to continually ramp it up. You're always one arbitrary bad mood away from him turning on you and ripping your head off, no matter what you've done for him in the past.

   It's unwinnable. Tim Cook sold Apple's soul for ten minutes of peace.
   https://toot.community/@methodphoto/115026948821298114

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   Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 23:37:43 JST Madeleine Morris

   It kind of blows my mind when younger people say that civil disobedience was not inherently as dangerous in the past.

   It was always dangerous. From Soweto to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, from Kent State to Tiananmen Square. Getting rid of power hungry assholes has always been dangerous.

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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 12:55:17 JST Steve's Place

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   @msbellows @TheJen I used to do that, but got annoyed with rebooting back and forth. I haven't tried with Windows 11, though.

   Linux Mint should not have any problem with the BIOS settings required for Secure Boot.

   An alternative might be to make backups of everything that matters, then making a full Linux install. If it is unworkable for you, just reinstall Windows and copy the data back. I've done that a few times in the past.

   It's a bit scary when it's your only computing device. I'll see what others have posted about dual booting these days.