"Some teachers and professors complain that students don’t care to learn today. But they may be projecting their frustration with the need for change and perhaps their very value in life. Some gravitated toward these careers to escape constant change (i.e., tenure), and they have gotten away with assigning students the same uninspiring lectures, readings, and tests for decades. Instead of evolving to fit how we learn today, they will complain to the bitter end."
Gaslighting? Projection? Cognitive dissonance? Even as a grad of the university system, I don't drink its kool-aid w/o asking questions, and challenging sacred cows/goring oxen. One of the latter is how can an institution of 'higher learning/'ed' possibly claim it is still one, without being open to all of the innovations just outside of its walls/doors??
Thanks for sharing, Bob! I think it is a good lens to use with AI and lots of other challenges. Integrating and working with the shadows is hard but it is better than being blind to them (which i mostly was, for years)
Fabulous reflections and insights as usual Bob. Your simple story about people passing you and your dog is one of the best illustrations of what projection is that I've heard Bob. Just excellent as an example. I had a small dinner party a few nights ago and everyone was talking about . . . AI of course. My level of annoyance that AI has taken over the attention and conversation of the world is off the chart. I can barely stand that it's all anyone talks about. Surely people can find a root of personal focus that is more compelling than the latest fad tech to hit the market. I know, I know, AI is big, and here to stay . . . blah, blah, blah . . . but you know what else is here to stay? The human spirit, the opportunity of personal development, work on self! That's been around longer than AI, and it will be here when it crashes and bites the dust. But here's the fun part. All my annoyance and big reaction and frustration with AI could arguably be traced back to my little brother coming along when I was 2.5 yrs old and the attention vacuum it created, all eyes on the baby and no more for me!! So anything that comes along that seems to be getting all the attention triggers a very old feeling and frustration. So I see you baby AI. You have the right to exist. But don't hold your breath that I'm going to just completely step aside and let you take over the place. There's room for both of us.
Oh, I love the baby brother insight. It's like a different way of thinking about a phrase Silicon Valley loves: "First Principles." In other words, this is one of the first principles you figured out as a child: sharing attention sucks.
I'm with you on those dinner parties and AI--or any conversation topic, really. Such topics can be great ways to see who your friends are as they project themselves.
"You can see leaders afraid of people when they share their hopes of turning more work over to AI. They simply cannot figure out how to operate in a world that’s no longer command-and-control, and they are not willing to humble themselves before the people who keep their business running."
I'd contend that these individuals are *NOT* leaders at all; they are cosplaying as them. Rather, they are administrators or managers. Command and control is functionally obsolete in most any
organization with the likely exceptions of a hospital operating room/emergency medicine wing, as well as the military ( all branches )
"Some teachers and professors complain that students don’t care to learn today. But they may be projecting their frustration with the need for change and perhaps their very value in life. Some gravitated toward these careers to escape constant change (i.e., tenure), and they have gotten away with assigning students the same uninspiring lectures, readings, and tests for decades. Instead of evolving to fit how we learn today, they will complain to the bitter end."
Gaslighting? Projection? Cognitive dissonance? Even as a grad of the university system, I don't drink its kool-aid w/o asking questions, and challenging sacred cows/goring oxen. One of the latter is how can an institution of 'higher learning/'ed' possibly claim it is still one, without being open to all of the innovations just outside of its walls/doors??
Thanks for sharing, Bob! I think it is a good lens to use with AI and lots of other challenges. Integrating and working with the shadows is hard but it is better than being blind to them (which i mostly was, for years)
Fabulous reflections and insights as usual Bob. Your simple story about people passing you and your dog is one of the best illustrations of what projection is that I've heard Bob. Just excellent as an example. I had a small dinner party a few nights ago and everyone was talking about . . . AI of course. My level of annoyance that AI has taken over the attention and conversation of the world is off the chart. I can barely stand that it's all anyone talks about. Surely people can find a root of personal focus that is more compelling than the latest fad tech to hit the market. I know, I know, AI is big, and here to stay . . . blah, blah, blah . . . but you know what else is here to stay? The human spirit, the opportunity of personal development, work on self! That's been around longer than AI, and it will be here when it crashes and bites the dust. But here's the fun part. All my annoyance and big reaction and frustration with AI could arguably be traced back to my little brother coming along when I was 2.5 yrs old and the attention vacuum it created, all eyes on the baby and no more for me!! So anything that comes along that seems to be getting all the attention triggers a very old feeling and frustration. So I see you baby AI. You have the right to exist. But don't hold your breath that I'm going to just completely step aside and let you take over the place. There's room for both of us.
Oh, I love the baby brother insight. It's like a different way of thinking about a phrase Silicon Valley loves: "First Principles." In other words, this is one of the first principles you figured out as a child: sharing attention sucks.
I'm with you on those dinner parties and AI--or any conversation topic, really. Such topics can be great ways to see who your friends are as they project themselves.
"You can see leaders afraid of people when they share their hopes of turning more work over to AI. They simply cannot figure out how to operate in a world that’s no longer command-and-control, and they are not willing to humble themselves before the people who keep their business running."
I'd contend that these individuals are *NOT* leaders at all; they are cosplaying as them. Rather, they are administrators or managers. Command and control is functionally obsolete in most any
organization with the likely exceptions of a hospital operating room/emergency medicine wing, as well as the military ( all branches )