Reflections 8th March

When the Process Becomes the Point.

We fail, not because we play the game badly, but because we become so absorbed in the game we are playing that we cannot see the larger game it is part of.

I am sure I am not alone in finding the current situation surreal; in having the sense that we are already on the slope towards a number of epic fails. An epic fail is not simply losing; it is the progressive collapse of possibility to a single, inescapable outcome, while those involved continue acting as though it has not happened. The dread we feel is not about the outcome itself. It is about the widening gap between the possibility we envisaged and the solidifying reality as we watch companies, governments, and even countries making moves in a game that has already been decided.

Companies cutting workforces on assumptions about what AI will do for them, whilst not knowing how, but afraid to be seen not following the herd. Governments capitulating to populists who offer nothing but blame. Countries squandering decades of reputation…