Reflections 31 January
The end of January, and already so much to reflect on, as the optimism and joy of the work of scientists creating multiple vaccines descends into recriminations and division as the hard work of turning discovery into delivery piles the pressure on.
Diversity has been on my mind. Not just the fashionable and necessary drive to make representative bodies more inclusive, but on how we think. Most of us have been brought up and trained in predominantly reductionist, analytical ways of thinking and working, in approaches to business and society focused on efficiency and growth, and it limits the way we think. (see below in articles). Focusing is powerful, as long as we do it deliberately and thoughtfully. Focusing on what's important now, in the context of what it is part of.
Topically, focusing on punishing a particular pharmaceutical business, working for no profit, whilst they are stiil learning how to mass produce vaccine, when we are right at the …
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