October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
230 pages
4h 53m
English
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Unsubscribing from Mutuality and Abstraction
The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.1
—F.A. Hayek
If you live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.
—Dave Ramsey
A Universal Failure Mode
Modern enterprise is extended order, complex. Every failure to sustain has its own reasons. Still, in every case one common disconnect is always implicated: Sustainment un-does when members unsubscribe from the abstract rule-set, which had been guiding how we agree to connect. To abandon-and-revert is to un-share from the mutuality in which ...