The Problem Is Humans 'can't Stand Each Other'
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Brene Brown emphasizes the importance of embracing humanity to survive the impact of AI, as discussed at the Fortune Most Powerful Women conference, with commenters reflecting on the need for human connection.
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Within that context people who are unable to perform either break down, find shortcuts or start doing strange things to keep up appearances leading to new problems. Asking people to be vulnerable within that context won't save anyone and just creates more confusion. It absurd watching management and HR dealing with people who have issues cause they are trained to filter out people who have issues.
What she is not saying is while it is a complex and uncertain world, corporations are optimized for Avoidance of complexity and uncertainty and and so are fundamentally flawed and highly unstable structurally if pushed into any situation requiring dealing with complexity and uncertainty.
People inside such structures will not be able to resolve the contradiction. Its like expecting farm and circus animals to change how the farm or circus works.
Don't wait for the structure to change. Get what you need and get out. There are other things going in the universe beyond the farm and circus and everything doesn't revolve around what is happening inside them.