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maura quint@mauraquint.bsky.social |
when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.
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NutMeg
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When did you get to the point where you realised the smart people actively avoid getting put in charge, since the person in charge rarely actually controls anything and has to deal with all the blame when things go wrong?
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Michael Maris
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These days I worry that being smart disqualifies you from being in charge.
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Fellow Member of Your Preferred In-Group
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Every job I've ever had has given me a clearer sense that lots of people are figuring it out as they go. This can be either a comfort or seen as license to destroy everything you come into contact with. Parental income a big determining factor there.
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Fernando López
@tocuen.bsky.social
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ikr? At 33 I'm feeling that thing of "goddamit i have to do it myself"
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David C B
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😭
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Jim Meyer
@theotherjim.bsky.social
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I have this argument with Jehovah's Witnesses all the time...
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@purkmonkey.bsky.social
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I realize this is sort of an evergreen tweet, but I thought it even more apropos given everything right now.
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maura quint
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Anyway, in my personal experience, one of the most important roles to bring change is that of an organizer. Organizers look at existing power structures and systems and set specific, attainable goals and work with others to achieve those goals and -- any of us can do it. We have to do it.
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maura quint
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someone @ replied me last night about what to do right now but I fell asleep before I could respond. they've since deleted. dm me?
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@fran6ixx777.bsky.social
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Good talk.
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Not Gene Rayburn
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When I was in my 20's I first heard Howard Stern say on the radio regarding people in power: "nobody knows what they're doing, sad but true". I never forgot that and it holds true for me some decades later.
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Ygrene ✔️
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a fundamental of Continuous Improvement in business is that everyone’s responsible for positive change in the company- it mirrors your post and it absolutely does come down to the individual to make the decision to be the change or simply accept the outcome of change that they chose not to influence
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H.
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Another way of saying it: everyone is in charge. It’s just such a huge, chaotic mess that it takes a certain mindset to not break down while trying to manage your particular piece of the puzzle.
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Future-President Perky
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What if we stopped trying to put smart people in charge and tried to put nice people in charge?
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Tee Jay Kaye
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“True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that your high school class is running the country.” — The Late, Great Kurt Vonnegut
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Alan Fisher
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There’s a Bill Gibson quote I frequently fall back on: “The old man was as American as it got, but in what she thought of as some very recently archaic way. Someone who would’ve been in charge of something, in America, when grown-ups still ran things.”
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ptrdo
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I'm 64, so since Obama. I've been older than Presidents. Nowadays, I watch pundits on the TV who are as old as my kids. People “in charge” don't know any more than the rest of us, but generally know how to talk with confidence, even when they're full of shit. I suppose that's why I'm not in charge.
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John Perschino
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The ruthless rule. The rest of Us are bantha fodder.
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Christinn
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Even more shocking: nobody needs to know anything about history, politics, economics, psychology, infrastructures, health and so on, to become a politician, even president. But for everything else you need training, if not a licence.
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Pete Davidson
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I'll never forget my first week working for the NY Mets. I'd dreamed about it my whole life and managed to get there.
My assumptions were similar to yours.
"I am going to meet all the geniuses who run my team." There were none. It was a bunch of blue bloods. Competence was in short supply.
#Life
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Eileen Popp.
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Maura,what are we going to do!! I keep hoping goodness,truth justice will conquer greed,power, conspiracies.
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Zombzilla
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No one is going to fix it.
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LaMinx
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My nana told me(I think I was 5ish) that just b/c someone is an adult it doesn’t mean that they are right or that they know what they are doing. That stuck w/me all my life. Awkward moments w/adults who didn’t like that I knew they were stupid, yes…being saved from some of those people, priceless.
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fruityelf
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There is definitely someone in charge of this world, but I can not say their name, nor do I want to give them any credit or acknowledgement, but there is a reason our world is the way it is, specifically one person, if they can even be called that.
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Pixelponyy✖️✖️
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The only thing that is "in charge" is money. Sad but true.
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Thanks For Sharing, Jerk
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I work with state governments for a living and you are so right
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