Latent Capacity

The power of coming home to ourselves

Some more brief thoughts on the subject of capacity.

The idea of deliberately operating at 70% of our capacity as a default is enough to send shivers down our spine, and cause palpitations in HR. It goes against everything that “productivity” and “efficiency” dogma dictates.

But let us, for a moment, consider it from another angle. The longer-term health of our society and the nature of business.

Much of our state education system has something of a conscription mentality to it. Preparing people, as best and cheaply as possible, for a front line in which they will be judged and rewarded for their abilities in a relatively narrow set of STEM skills required for short-term performance.

We pay little attention to the longer-term, and the imagination and regenerative thinking we need to shape it. Arts and humanities, those qualities that make us human, and differentiate us from the machinery we operate (which in turn is starting to operate us), are the root of productive growth. Generally, …