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I sometimes go through the thought exercise of making myself responsible of decisions with wide-ranging consequences. I'm sitting here architecting a little pr

I sometimes go through the thought exercise of making myself responsible of decisions with wide-ranging consequences. I'm sitting here architecting a little project here and I had plenty of bad ideas and assumptions. In my space, that's fine, it's part of the design process. If I was head of the CDC and trying to figure out how to handle this unprecedented global pandemic I'd also make plenty of mistakes and missteps. In this case, however, mistakes and missteps mean criticism from all sides and probably people dying. It's a horrible responsibility and it's sure that rather than people are going to call it encroaching socialism or government incompetence or corruption.

beaconstudios 6y ago
yes being a decisionmaker in charger of a large organisation must be hard because you are given responsibility for its failings, and you aren't directly in control - you are in that you can make rules and whatnot, but rules are really just guidelines and fall apart when they make contact with reality. But we all know this is true, but we still act the same way and then get mad when the leader fails to perform magic. It's 21st century scapegoating. Sadly we do actually have tools for fixing big problems but we seem to prefer scapegoating to actually doing anything.