That is… humility, as [implicated in] interpersonal sensitivity/awareness, has been a long time coming?? [actually, i’m sure it has always been there…] :)
“Receiving, on the other hand, if it be well done, requires a fine balance of self-knowledge and kindness. It requires humility and tact and great understanding of relationships. In receiving you cannot appear, even to yourself, better or stronger or wiser than the giver, although you must be wiser to do it well.
It requires a self-esteem to receive — not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.”
@inthehands uummmm… I thiiiink it is used (and I have used it) in the sense of “in this company, i find myself in wonderment at my inclusion; it makes me all the more aware of my respect for these people I have been included with, and by; and i feel my lacks in the contrast even more keenly!”
“There’s an always-on assumption that there are still yet more efficiencies to be found, if we go looking for them, still yet more ways to hone the team’s focus, to turn laser-eyed onto whatever it is the executive team has deemed most necessary” — Mandy Brown, https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/against-optimization
“Optimization is intrinsically brittle, because it’s about closely matching the output to the conditions, which means it’s vulnerable if those conditions change.”
Realizing that I get really squirmy when I see "optimize" used in the context of the organizational/team work we do. Even within our technical systems, we're working within a design space that is complex enough that "optimize" is... well, I don't know but... hm. A stretch. But for our teams, we need to shift the managementese away from notions that optimizing... is something to strive for... It's people, people! We're working on messy -- wicked -- problems.
There’s “choice overload” and there’s consequences overload? Which doesn’t mean the answer is to ignore consequences and power through, until the consequences can can’t be kicked down the road any longer…
We’re not just being crushed by work(loads). It’s a feeling of being swallowed by it all… Rights inched forward over decades and centuries, being ripped away in moments. The vicious cruelties we humans are capable of. Climate catastrophes.
We value confidence, because it signals clarities to act on… but hubris is confidence that’s … “overclocked” … (lack of self-awareness*/ humility/respect for others…)
* awareness of impact on others, awareness of fallibilities, …
A 20-page printed comic that tells the story of Lynn Conway's groundbreaking invention of Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) that enablies today's billion-transistor chips, and the birth of the foundry model that separates chip design and printing.” https://www.unsungheroes.info/product/lines-in-the-sand-e
“In 1968, Conway was fired by IBM after revealing she was undergoing gender transition. Starting from scratch and living in stealth mode under a new name, her career blossomed. Five years later, she was offered a research position at Xerox PARC. it was here, in the late 1970’s, that she invented the microchip design methodology that changed the world.” — Jim Boulton
“We need experts, we need accurate information, but the object is not to do away with difference but to do away with *muddle*. When for lack of facts you and I are responding to a different situation—you to the situation as you imagine it, I to the situation as I imagine, it—we cannot of course come to agreement. What accurate information does is to clear the ground for genuine difference and therefore make possible, I do not say make sure, agreement”
'Given the degree of brokenness of the broken world (and the expense of fixing it), we need all maintainers to apply their diverse disciplinary methods and practical skills to the collective project of repair. [..] Fixers, he says, “know and see different things — indeed, different worlds — than the better-known figures of ‘designer’ or ‘user.’” Breakdown has “world-disclosing properties.”'