Ah, planners.............................

 

.............Arnold Kling is feeling imposed upon:

What appalls me is the arrogance of the project to alter other people’s lifestyle. When people moved here, they showed a preference for living as we do. The plan replaces the preferences of the residents with the preferences of the planners.

If a developer came along and built a community where cars were disfavored, that he said would “repair past injustices that disproportionately affected people of color” and “reduce climate-related risks,” then people could decide whether or not to reside in that community. I have no problem with that. But to take a community that people chose to live in and completely remake it to suit the planners’ idea of utopia to me seems un-American.

"busy".........................

 

Let me put it another way: busyness is bullshit.  We're all "busy."  We all have things to do every day. Obligations and responsibilities.  We all have to eat, sleep, pay the bills.  What does that have to do with putting in the work to reach your vision?  If it matters to you, make the time.

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful:  Seven Tools for Life

Think we have witnessed this............

 . . .he became able to study a situation, evaluate its facts, decide which ones were meaningful, develop a course of action in response to work toward a desired outcome, and verbalize the orders that need to be issued.

      These are the basic steps in critical thinking, but the military commander's task is especially difficult because he or she must take one additional step, often the hardest one of all: ensuring that the orders are implemented.  It is one thing to know what to do, but quite another to get other people to do it.  New presidents often make the mistake, for example, of paying too much attention to formulating policy and not enough into implementing it.

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country