What We're Thinking
The virus has a lot to teach us.
Boundaries are essential constraints in our lives. At the most fundamental, individual level, a boundary lets me know where I end and you begin. What is mine and what is yours.
We use them in similar ways everywhere to create lines of demarcation and distinctions between places, groups, objects, ideas, pretty much everything.
Looking for lessons.
I write this from my office in London, where I sit following a largely sleepless night. Before the first polls closed on America’s historic election night, I hosted a lovely dinner with a handful of friends and colleagues where, mercifully, very little conversation was devoted to the campaign or the potential results that were only a few hours away.
Seeing the system sometimes means looking in the mirror.
Lately, our news in the US has been full of stories about young men who have committed crimes of horrific violence. Stabbings. Shootings. Bombings. Mass killings. Terrorism. Last week I came across this thoughtful analysis in The Washington Post: http://wapo.st/2dh48Ms
Though it feels good, simply punishing broken trust isn’t a full remedy.
Another black eye for the financial services industry last week. This time it was Wells Fargo, the largest US bank when measured by market valuation (over $250 billion). Though I expect that is going to change in the very near term.
