Sublime

He pulls an assessment paper out of his back pocket. There are a dozen or so categories students are to be judged on. Beside each, there is a box to check: Satisfactory, Less Than Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory. There is no Good. In this business, it’s survive or not. Thrive is not an option.

Geoff has a fixation on value. He can’t stand the idea of spending a single extra dollar if it doesn’t provide at least two dollars of value. Maybe that’s extreme. But so is a fortune (and foundation) of hundreds of millions of dollars. He’s not successful despite his quirk; he’s successful because of it. And what’s made Geoff successful is that he

Es gibt eine Seite der Renaissance, die wenig mit neuem Humanismus, behutsamer Wiederentdeckung des antiken Erbes und früher Aufklärung zu tun hat und einen solchen feldzugartigen Protest geradezu herausforderte. Diese kalte, auf reine Logik und Erfolg fixierte, gleichsam wertneutrale Seite der Renaissance setzt bedingungslos auf das Individuum und

In the earlier stages of our labour movement, the trade union often became a place of refuge for the inefficient, the slack, the lazy and the anti-social. As has happened elsewhere, these are the first to join the union to seek protection against the natural desire of any employer to be rid of bad workers. […] I am not asking our trade union leader