We are what we pay attention to

In ‘current budget constrains’ (AKA cuts) the issue is not to ignore them or pretend that there is no pain. The problem is that talking about pain, referring to pain, discussing pain, lamenting pain and reminding everybody of the pain, does not take pain away. In fact, it multiplies it.

Leandro Herrero

This extract of a post by Leandro Herrero really resonated with me this morning.

Just where, along the way to now, did we decide to give constructs we have created, from algorithms, through budgets, to business plans supremacy over our ability to sense, intuit and feel what is going on around us and adapt?

I think one of the lines that most gets my goat in the last few days has been the idea of the "mutant algorithm". When we create a construct, we know that it needs tending and human supervision. Every algorithm, every blindly followed process, every culture that suppresses debate carries a chaos gene within it, just waiting for the opportunity to express.

When we complain, all we are doing…