FlowLabs

Look carefully at this lung scan. Have you noticed anything anusual? If you have, you might fall into a small % of people who are able to “see the unexpected”. Harvard researchers Trafton Drew and Jeremy Wolfe found that 83% of radiologists didn't notice the gorilla in the top right portion of this image. The gorilla is 48 times larger than the average nodule and eye-tracking showed that they were looking directly at it. The 17% of radiologists who saw the gorilla, sadly, changed their minds after talking to the 83%. First time I have heard this story was from Dave Snowden. Our limited ability to perceive the reality is especially problematic in times of crisis. Attention bias is one of the most powerful cognitive biases. How are you mitigating it with your team? #seeingtheunexpected

Look carefully at this lung scan. Have you noticed anything anusual? If you have, you might fall into a small % of people who are able to “see the unexpected”. Harvard researchers Trafton Drew and Jeremy Wolfe found that 83% of radiologists didn't notice the gorilla in the top right portion of this image. The gorilla is 48 times larger than the average nodule and eye-tracking showed that they were looking directly at it. The 17% of radiologists who saw the gorilla, sadly, changed their minds after talking to the 83%. First time I have heard this story was from Dave Snowden. Our limited ability to perceive the reality is especially problematic in times of crisis. Attention bias is one of the most powerful cognitive biases. How are you mitigating it with your team? #seeingtheunexpected

What if this new form of pricing ever becomes the norm? From The NY Times today. “As pricey as a run to the grocery store has become, our grocery bills would be considerably more expensive if environmental costs were included, researchers say. The loss of species as cropland takes over habitat. Groundwater depletion. Greenhouse gases from manure and farm equipment. For years, economists have been developing a system of “true cost accounting” based on a growing body of evidence about the environmental damage caused by different types of agriculture. Now, emerging research aims to translate this damage to the planet into dollar figures. By displaying these so-called true prices, sometimes next to retail prices, researchers hope to nudge consumers, businesses, farmers and regulators to factor in the environmental toll of food. The proponents of true cost accounting don’t propose raising food prices across the board, but they say that increased awareness of the hidden environmental cost of food could change behavior.”

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 Excerpts: "What follows is a short list of all the ways in which the US system does not comport with some ideal type of capitalistic marketplace." "1. Governments have become a main customer of tech and media platforms, instilling an ethos of political deference and cooperation, resulting in surveillance, propaganda, and censorship." "2. The US has a medical cartel that works with regulatory agencies and official institutions to impose poisons on the public, charge outrageous prices, cooperate with business cartels to block alternatives, and promote addiction and ill health." "The coercion is not about promoting health but promoting subscription-based dependency on pharmaceuticals." "3. The US has an educational system that is mostly government-funded, blocks competition, forces participation, wastes students’ time, and pushes a political agenda of compliance and indoctrination." "State intervention into educational services is massive and comprehensive." "4. Agricultural subsidies that build vast industries that crush smaller farming and capture the regulatory apparatus and foist bad food on the public."   "5. A wildly complicated and confiscatory system of taxation that punishes wealth accumulation and blocks social mobility in all directions." "6. Fiat paper money floating exchange rates (born 1971) give the government unlimited funds, create inflation and currencies that never rise in value, and provide foreign central banks investment capital to make sure international accounts never settle. This new system has blown up government power, which expands without limit, and disrupted the normal functioning of international trade. Treasury debt floated by governments with central banks evades all normal market forces and risk premiums, simply because they are guaranteed by the power to inflate at public expense. This gives the politicians ... a blank check to do their dirty work."   "7. The court system invites extortionist litigation and can only be fought with deep pockets. Litigation these days is merely about playing the long game in a wicked match that can be over absolutely anything, real or imagined."   "8. A patent system that grants private industry production cartels and stops competition for everything from pharmaceuticals to software to industrial processes."   "9. As for authentic property rights, they are weaker than ever and can be overridden or even abolished with the stroke of a pen. ... No business owner can be certain of his rights to his own enterprise." "10. A bloated federal budget supports 420+ agencies that lord it over the whole of commercial society, ballooning up compliance costs for entrepreneurs and creating vast uncertainty about the rules of the game." by Jeffrey A. Tucker Full article: https://lnkd.in/eMxamXMY Brownstone Institute 

We weren’t the only people on a staycation this week. Everett and her Husky live in Zwolle but spent the week house-sitting her sister’s place nearby. I was thinking about how to construct a glass conservatory over the water, for co-learning, co-connecting, eating and drinking well, some yoga, and the next thing this sprightly little Husky started nibbling my hands as it chewed on everything it could get in its mouth. In other matters of adaptation and survival, happy 1st September! We are now preparing to attack the weather when it comes our way! By day two of N European weather we’ll be booking flights again. But what a total luxury not to have to travel anywhere for a holiday. No cabs, no trams, no tubes, no dead time between a door and another door. I love flying. Ideally in a cockpit. Economy is not pleasant anymore and unless it’s on expenses, paying £8k for a 1way business or £24k for first is a waste, considering you are going to get there at exactly the same time as those who paid £1k. But I do love flying. Road trips are different. The admin of flying and time spent dealing with customs agents, doing silly passport paper checks in today’s world, and then being crammed on a plane that optimises every sq. inch for revenue, not joy, is not fun anymore. Most airlines have become joyless since Covid. They know it. We know it. Lacking in human touches, whilst becoming more and more expensive every week. So we were ‘happy to be happy’, just to enjoy the rhythms of our city. No fomo. Except for when I was not meeting people who we have a good chance to meet and connect with again next week. And I must say, we met many interesting peeps here. Yesterday, we spent time with a violinist in the Andre Rieux company. This was a serendipitous meeting. In circa 2011, I watched one of his events in Maastricht, and loved his violinist, who was wearing a beautiful long flowing green dress at the time. Yesterday, we met the new beautiful violinist in the long flowing green dress. And talked flow and peak performance in her field. I also met several of the big 5 consultants ‘on the beach’ with full pay, some helping the government with tax collections, others advising on known vulnerabilities in G20 cyber securities, some working in plant-based meat substitutes. We ran out of time & light to talk about everything. So we agreed to take these into the FlowLabs podcast. I’m especially keen to talk to top chefs & musicians, working at the highest levels, under immense pressure, to produce syncopated joy for others. I found myself saying to a friend how this was a better investment than some co-working spaces ito meeting real people and making life friends. Covid’s Bubbles made that harder to do for everyone. You need to have your skates on nowadays. But rolling out to others, away from one’s tiny little island, IS the way. The weather is changing and so are we as we do what we do best. We adapt, and prepare to attack the world with smiles again tomorrow.

Sports teams use '#conditional love' as a basis for #relational #dialogue. Unlike your family, whom you love and support unconditionally, a high performing ecosystem and team depends on #hiring, and #nurturing the right #talent and behaviours for success. Of course, love and kindness are essential, particularly in the world we increasingly find ourselves living in. But unlike family, a sports team depends on conditional love. It quickly lets you know whether you cut the mustard and when you don't. Instant #feedback #loops are an act of love in themselves as they allow for corrective steers and improvement. Both rely on powerful alignment between individual and team values (and priorities) along with rules of engagement or codes of conduct. If there is no discipline, respect and consistency, there is no culture. Organisational culture and structure of each depends largely on individual strengths and abilities. Whether you're a family, a sports team, or a start-up, you need to understand roles extremely well to unlock great performance and to live in harmony. Over time these roles can evolve (for instance, a parent becomes more of a friend than custodian of the adult-child relationship as families grow older) Both groups share dynamics of verbalising their dreams to one another, to enlist the support of the group to get them there, because they love and care for what makes one another come alive, to become happy. A winning family, team or culture, in my opinion, is one that puts learning above all activities. Continuous learning and growth is what progress is all about. Adapting to change and chaos is the modern warrior's greatest weapon. #building #high #performing #teams #culture #ecosystem #learning #goodgrowth #antifragile

Sports teams use '#conditional love' as a basis for #relational #dialogue. Unlike your family, whom you love and support unconditionally, a high performing ecosystem and team depends on #hiring, and #nurturing the right #talent and behaviours for success. Of course, love and kindness are essential, particularly in the world we increasingly find ourselves living in. But unlike family, a sports team depends on conditional love. It quickly lets you know whether you cut the mustard and when you don't. Instant #feedback #loops are an act of love in themselves as they allow for corrective steers and improvement. Both rely on powerful alignment between individual and team values (and priorities) along with rules of engagement or codes of conduct. If there is no discipline, respect and consistency, there is no culture. Organisational culture and structure of each depends largely on individual strengths and abilities. Whether you're a family, a sports team, or a start-up, you need to understand roles extremely well to unlock great performance and to live in harmony. Over time these roles can evolve (for instance, a parent becomes more of a friend than custodian of the adult-child relationship as families grow older) Both groups share dynamics of verbalising their dreams to one another, to enlist the support of the group to get them there, because they love and care for what makes one another come alive, to become happy. A winning family, team or culture, in my opinion, is one that puts learning above all activities. Continuous learning and growth is what progress is all about. Adapting to change and chaos is the modern warrior's greatest weapon. #building #high #performing #teams #culture #ecosystem #learning #goodgrowth #antifragile

We weren’t the only people on a staycation this week. Everett and her Husky live in Zwolle but spent the week house-sitting her sister’s place nearby. I was thinking about how to construct a glass conservatory over the water, for co-learning, co-connecting, eating and drinking well, some yoga, and the next thing this sprightly little Husky started nibbling my hands as it chewed on everything it could get in its mouth. In other matters of adaptation and survival, happy 1st September! We are now preparing to attack the weather when it comes our way! By day two of N European weather we’ll be booking flights again. But what a total luxury not to have to travel anywhere for a holiday. No cabs, no trams, no tubes, no dead time between a door and another door. I love flying. Ideally in a cockpit. Economy is not pleasant anymore and unless it’s on expenses, paying £8k for a 1way business or £24k for first is a waste, considering you are going to get there at exactly the same time as those who paid £1k. But I do love flying. Road trips are different. The admin of flying and time spent dealing with customs agents, doing silly passport paper checks in today’s world, and then being crammed on a plane that optimises every sq. inch for revenue, not joy, is not fun anymore. Most airlines have become joyless since Covid. They know it. We know it. Lacking in human touches, whilst becoming more and more expensive every week. So we were ‘happy to be happy’, just to enjoy the rhythms of our city. No fomo. Except for when I was not meeting people who we have a good chance to meet and connect with again next week. And I must say, we met many interesting peeps here. Yesterday, we spent time with a violinist in the Andre Rieux company. This was a serendipitous meeting. In circa 2011, I watched one of his events in Maastricht, and loved his violinist, who was wearing a beautiful long flowing green dress at the time. Yesterday, we met the new beautiful violinist in the long flowing green dress. And talked flow and peak performance in her field. I also met several of the big 5 consultants ‘on the beach’ with full pay, some helping the government with tax collections, others advising on known vulnerabilities in G20 cyber securities, some working in plant-based meat substitutes. We ran out of time & light to talk about everything. So we agreed to take these into the FlowLabs podcast. I’m especially keen to talk to top chefs & musicians, working at the highest levels, under immense pressure, to produce syncopated joy for others. I found myself saying to a friend how this was a better investment than some co-working spaces ito meeting real people and making life friends. Covid’s Bubbles made that harder to do for everyone. You need to have your skates on nowadays. But rolling out to others, away from one’s tiny little island, IS the way. The weather is changing and so are we as we do what we do best. We adapt, and prepare to attack the world with smiles again tomorrow.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 Excerpts: "What follows is a short list of all the ways in which the US system does not comport with some ideal type of capitalistic marketplace." "1. Governments have become a main customer of tech and media platforms, instilling an ethos of political deference and cooperation, resulting in surveillance, propaganda, and censorship." "2. The US has a medical cartel that works with regulatory agencies and official institutions to impose poisons on the public, charge outrageous prices, cooperate with business cartels to block alternatives, and promote addiction and ill health." "The coercion is not about promoting health but promoting subscription-based dependency on pharmaceuticals." "3. The US has an educational system that is mostly government-funded, blocks competition, forces participation, wastes students’ time, and pushes a political agenda of compliance and indoctrination." "State intervention into educational services is massive and comprehensive." "4. Agricultural subsidies that build vast industries that crush smaller farming and capture the regulatory apparatus and foist bad food on the public."   "5. A wildly complicated and confiscatory system of taxation that punishes wealth accumulation and blocks social mobility in all directions." "6. Fiat paper money floating exchange rates (born 1971) give the government unlimited funds, create inflation and currencies that never rise in value, and provide foreign central banks investment capital to make sure international accounts never settle. This new system has blown up government power, which expands without limit, and disrupted the normal functioning of international trade. Treasury debt floated by governments with central banks evades all normal market forces and risk premiums, simply because they are guaranteed by the power to inflate at public expense. This gives the politicians ... a blank check to do their dirty work."   "7. The court system invites extortionist litigation and can only be fought with deep pockets. Litigation these days is merely about playing the long game in a wicked match that can be over absolutely anything, real or imagined."   "8. A patent system that grants private industry production cartels and stops competition for everything from pharmaceuticals to software to industrial processes."   "9. As for authentic property rights, they are weaker than ever and can be overridden or even abolished with the stroke of a pen. ... No business owner can be certain of his rights to his own enterprise." "10. A bloated federal budget supports 420+ agencies that lord it over the whole of commercial society, ballooning up compliance costs for entrepreneurs and creating vast uncertainty about the rules of the game." by Jeffrey A. Tucker Full article: https://lnkd.in/eMxamXMY Brownstone Institute