Thank you for sharing. "...and the other was like "get lost, I don't care". It was quite an eye opener. You really don't know what this is like until you've tr

Thank you for sharing. "...and the other was like "get lost, I don't care". It was quite an eye opener. You really don't know what this is like until you've tried it." Mirrors my experience in policy work and legislation. My current 3 takeaways: Attention economy rules all. I now see everyone, every org as information processors struggling with infoglut. So it's just very hard to even get noticed. Necessary triage makes course corrections very expensive. Long term, focus on improving feedback loops, reducing transaction costs. Applying those Deming and Drucker style organizational learning ideas to new domains. (I've had very limited success. See point #1.) Pace yourself, stay focused. Improvement is prohibitively expensive. Mark Twain, Brandolini, and many others, have marveled how silliness defeats truth. Frankly, I burned out. As David I sprinted whereas Goliath was running a marathon. And Goliath has mastered distraction, flooding the zone, provoking a response, patience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law