George Kamide

Even within the organizations, the language can become obscuring as to like, why? What does this piece of machinery do? What is it connected to? If it goes down, what's the plan and what is the impact? Again, I think it comes back to communication.

Even within the organizations, the language can become obscuring as to like, why? What does this piece of machinery do? What is it connected to? If it goes down, what's the plan and what is the impact? Again, I think it comes back to communication.

I've been on a kick all year trying to rebrand soft skills as vital skills. I think the reason we don't invest in them is because soft relegates it to this thing that like, it's just on you. You go develop your soft skills. Whereas these are the things that are also critical to making operations run more seriously.

I've been on a kick all year trying to rebrand soft skills as vital skills. I think the reason we don't invest in them is because soft relegates it to this thing that like, it's just on you. You go develop your soft skills. Whereas these are the things that are also critical to making operations run more seriously.

Yeah, I've been following that new avian flu very closely because it's weird that it's showing up in cows.

Yeah, I've been following that new avian flu very closely because it's weird that it's showing up in cows.

Or sea lions.

Or sea lions.

Create the culture that allows people to feel comfortable to be like, I am really sick today and I shouldn't be coming. pay people to be sick as well. It would be really helpful. But that's a whole other conversation. Well, I mean, for example, you and I have both spent time in Japan. And the thing about Japan that I think is fetishized in the West is the idea of social harmony.

Create the culture that allows people to feel comfortable to be like, I am really sick today and I shouldn't be coming. pay people to be sick as well. It would be really helpful. But that's a whole other conversation. Well, I mean, for example, you and I have both spent time in Japan. And the thing about Japan that I think is fetishized in the West is the idea of social harmony.

Don't get me wrong. It's amazing that people don't talk loudly into their cell phones on the train. But pushed into the extreme, that also means people are expected to be at work if they're sick, which is why Japan has always had a culture of wearing face masks even before COVID. You're sick. It is incumbent upon you not to disrupt social harmony by getting other people sick.

Don't get me wrong. It's amazing that people don't talk loudly into their cell phones on the train. But pushed into the extreme, that also means people are expected to be at work if they're sick, which is why Japan has always had a culture of wearing face masks even before COVID. You're sick. It is incumbent upon you not to disrupt social harmony by getting other people sick.

Also, people wear face masks because it's flu season. They don't want to get sick. But I mean, I had friends and students in Japan who were like full on feverish and they would show up at work and they were fine if they didn't work, but they had to like put their head on their desk and they, but they physically had to be there.

Also, people wear face masks because it's flu season. They don't want to get sick. But I mean, I had friends and students in Japan who were like full on feverish and they would show up at work and they were fine if they didn't work, but they had to like put their head on their desk and they, but they physically had to be there.

And I was like, I don't understand this paradox that to disrupt the social harmony would you to be absent. But when you go and touch all the hard surface in this office, and get more people sick, that seems like a productivity nightmare, right? I would rather you stay home, get well, and then come back. But yes, especially to the food supply, for sure. Please, for the love of God, stay home.

And I was like, I don't understand this paradox that to disrupt the social harmony would you to be absent. But when you go and touch all the hard surface in this office, and get more people sick, that seems like a productivity nightmare, right? I would rather you stay home, get well, and then come back. But yes, especially to the food supply, for sure. Please, for the love of God, stay home.

Yeah, a number of cultural and biological things there. You know, I think as humans, we have to continually make our peace with the fact that we are very bad at that kind of long stage planning. Yeah. From an evolutionary standpoint, like for all the tech we have, the hardware between our ears has unchanged for 100,000 years and probably no updates on the patching schedule anytime soon.

Yeah, a number of cultural and biological things there. You know, I think as humans, we have to continually make our peace with the fact that we are very bad at that kind of long stage planning. Yeah. From an evolutionary standpoint, like for all the tech we have, the hardware between our ears has unchanged for 100,000 years and probably no updates on the patching schedule anytime soon.

Which means like we are in these new, more complex systems and we're carrying that evolutionary baggage, which includes survival stuff, right? I mean, this has been shown repeatedly in like how to teach people how to even save for retirement. It's very hard to hold these things in the future. And so trying to plan for hypotheticals feels very difficult.

Which means like we are in these new, more complex systems and we're carrying that evolutionary baggage, which includes survival stuff, right? I mean, this has been shown repeatedly in like how to teach people how to even save for retirement. It's very hard to hold these things in the future. And so trying to plan for hypotheticals feels very difficult.