1. Come up with something to make everyone pissed off, especially your friends
2. Escalate into major conflict
3. Retreat when you face opposition
4. Declare victory
5. Request recognition, money, awards and admiration from everybody
6. Name the incident after yourself
7. Repeat
3. People want to make deals with deal-keepers. They want to trust someone with their fates and resources. Trust is built through repeated deal-keeping, not through intimidation, betrayal and legal hassle. A deal without trust will always be burdened by precautions, loopholes and escape routes.
2. Even for the most principled and ideologically purist lawmakers, politics is about outcomes and contingencies. A political deal is therefore always a provisional stabilization of matters. When outcomes and contingencies change, deals are off. /2
Three notes on the contemporary obsession with deal-making in politics:
1. Difficult and tough negotiations are dramatic, but not much more. Politics is about deal-making as much as entrepreneurship is about pitching - not unimportant, but it precedes value-creation rather than embodying it. /1
Something should also be done to keep all the italics-speaking people away. But since they tend to be right-leaning, no bold actions will be taken.
The art of being a successful deal-maker has always involved being a trusted deal-keeper. And trust is not built overnight, it is earned over years and decades. That is something the current administrations in Washington and Moscow has neither understood nor embraced, ever.
Theocracy is the same at all places, in all times. It is 10% about love and worship of God, and 90% about self-righteous men wanting to bend othersâ lives to their own liking.
Sweden offers 480 days of paid parental leave to share between parents, with 90 days reserved for each parent and the rest flexible. Plus you get 10 âdaddy daysâ right after birth.
Political leadership is not only about managing and governing things. It is also about knowing when to take an arms-length or hands-off approach. Freedom is being able to find your own path thru life, and democracy is about safeguarding that ability.
âUse social media to shape political narratives. But also, unplug. Switch on to political aeroplane mode. Think long-term. Donât get caught in the news cycle or buried under the âflood the zoneâ avalanche of absurdities populists use to wear down their critics.â
As is the case of most autocrats. They inevitably cause stagnation and suffering. This whole idea that a single person could comprehend and manage something as complex as a modern society should be considered absurd. Even for those rejecting democracy.
Massive lack of insight into how complicated international trade agreements are.
Not surprising. The Trump I admin had an extremely much higher turnover rate for core ministers than any other presidency, and that pattern is set to repeat itself. Seems the current POTUS is a terrible recruiter and a terrible work environment for top officials.
Same in Sweden.
This hubris, in taking for granted that all these things that made US the only superpower (the dollar, the military, the universities, entrepreneurship, culture, being a trusted ally, etc etc). And to believe that it can all be destroyed without consequences.
What did you expect? The guy is an influencer. âI generate clicks, therefore I amâ. Too big career move to head operations that are usually top secret, and where the effects are only visible years ahead.
Clear evidence that universities are not able (and not in the business) to âindoctrinateâ young minds into âmarxismâ. Our students are free to choose what kind of stupidities they want to pursue in their lives.
Small men must shrink the world into something they can comprehend
Removing the independence of the central bank is the strongman thing to do. But it will further damage investor trust in how the country is governed, and cause major problems in terms of inflation, currency rates and interest rates.
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Autism is not a disease.
Autism is not an epidemic.
Autism is a multifactorial genetic-based neurological condition.
And itâs not caused by vaccines or nebulous âenvironmental toxins.â
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It was always about making Trump look good and, possibly, earn him a Nobel Peace Prize. Neither will happen.
Yes, and if they are spying on us they are currently being told that Japan just won a war over Russia, that there is a new place called âLas Vegasâ, and that Sweden let Norway go independent without knowing about all that oil.
Imagine this: Main parts of the public sector do not have as its primary purpose to enact the current governmentâs political agenda. They exist to serve citizens in their many capacities. Wise democratic control means knowing when to intervene and when to keep your hands off.
Nothing screams âI spent way too much time playing SimCity as an undergradâ as billionaires wanting to build and rule over their own perfect cities. Theyâve thought of everything, except âwho wants to live there, once we removed the original inhabitants?â
Then there will be a tariff on buffering, paid when the money is on its way from the salary account to the savings account. It will be beautiful.
I thought the whole point with tariffs was to shield American companies through taxing American consumers�
The Sputnik moment: Shit, weâre losing the hi-tech race, we need science and engineering aplenty!
The Lutnick moment: Shit my boss is reminiscing the 50âs, we need armies of millions screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones.
True leaders value dissent, resistance and counter-arguments - because it means opportunities to rethink their policies and to sharpen their arguments. If you welcome those who challenge you, you will do a much better job leading.
Hüller med - det blir ett uttryck fÜr samma transaktionella syn som den som dominerar i den amerikanska politiken. Alternativet som alltid att gü tillbaka till grundfrügorna: VarfÜr finns forskning, och hur bÜr den bäst bedrivas?
The world wants your ICT and AI services. Donât make them develop their own instead.