Eras

Change is strange. It's sort of like an untrue, even dreamlike feeling booking meeting rooms and meetings with agendas such as "Debriefing/handover of responsibilities" and "Exit practicalities".

More random thoughts

• Capitalism and free markets aren't the problem. Big corporations and the fact that there are no free markets is the problem. Confusing capitalism with corporatism is a mistake that leads to many problems and incorrect conclusions.
• If we're optimistic, the drivers of individualism, education, and technology, amongst others, will drive the decline of large corporations and return the system to a functioning competition-based free market. This will be because the friction and missing infrastructure bits that big corporations were able to get past when small companies couldn't will be reduced.
• To enable the above, one must decide what type of a mechanism should be used to revitalize the system. Competition law and regulators are an obvious choice, but this requires the regulators to act more decisively and more intelligently in the future.

Random thoughts

• Most disruptions can be taken apart into smaller pieces, which in turn often are merely small linear, evolutionary steps. Just like the metaphorical boiling frog if you look at only the small delta, you miss the big change that can make things really hot for you.
• Flexibility and adaptability is crucial for survival. Interestingly enough people seem to cling onto ideologies even in situations where the pragmatic option would be to change your stance. Like in martial arts, fixing yourself into one stance will again land you in a tight situation when the circumstance changes.
• An offshoot of the previous and originally from some smarter person: communism for 20-somethings stems out of passion, but communism for 40-somethings stems out of idiocy.
• "I'd rather be a shareholder than a customer of [insert any bank here]." Because of incentives, banks tend to take better care of shareholders than customers.