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Spectrum of Awareness

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“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

The Concept:

Awareness is similar to the visual spectrum. There are things above the spectrum which go over our heads and we’re not aware of. There are also things which we assume everyone knows that we dismiss and don’t pay attention to.

The difference between the visual spectrum and the spectrum of awareness is that the majority of people share relatively the same visual spectrum but we all have significantly different spectrums of awareness.

The visual spectrum is a very small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. There is a lot we can’t see.

Our spectrums are different for different subjects and fields. If you ask a fish to climb a tree it will fail. If you ask a fish to breath under water it won’t understand why you’re wasting it’s time.

Theme: Livelihoods of the Future

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What are we going to do? To support our families? To support our communities? To be happy?

  • What will our roles be?
  • What should we teach our kids?
  • What Happens at 50?

“Over the past two decades, the U.S. labor market has undergone a quiet transformation, as companies increasingly forgo full-time employees and fill positions with independent contractors, on-call workers or temps—what economists have called “alternative work arrangements” or the “contingent workforce.”

The Real Future of Work

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/04/future-work-independent-contractors-alternative-work-arrangements-216212

“The predestined, blue-collar lifestyle that Bruce Springsteen sang about in Darkness on the Edge of Town is already a thing of the past, and it will only grow smaller in our rear-view mirrors as we approach 2040. Soon, the world of the large central firm and steady, predictable work will exist only in museums.”

The Next American Economy

“Traditional work is dying.”

5 Major Ways Freelancers Will Change The Economy By 2040 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the total number of new business startups and business closures per year — the birth and death rates of American companies — have crossed for the first time since the measurement began. I am referring to employer businesses, those with one or more employees”

American Entrepreneurship: Dead or Alive?

Administration Strategy

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Notes From:

Is Trump Floundering, or Is Bannon Making Good on His ‘Revolution’? | Foreign Policy

Quotes:

Bannon and other like-minded ideologues in the Trump White House view disruption and polarization as means of pressing ahead with their agenda and rallying their core supporters.

when a story comes up which is not helpful, not favorable, or when he wants to get people disrupted … he throws a ball and everybody scrambles after it and neglects the story they should be following.

the hallmarks of a “shock event” designed to throw adversaries off guard and seize the initiative.

A successful shock event depends on speed and chaos because it requires knee-jerk reactions so that people divide along established lines

Bannon and his allies are trying to squeeze through a shrinking window of opportunity, moving quickly and decisively before the federal government’s bureaucracy can respond and before members of Congress or grass roots activists can coalesce to push back