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Quiet quitting isn’t about leaving a job.
It’s when people stay but mentally check out. They do the bare minimum. No excitement. No extra effort.
It’s a silent alarm. Your team may be losing interest right under your nose.
And it’s a big deal. Why?
What can employers do? Many of the causes are within your control:
➡️ Listen Well
Talk to your team often.
Listen to what they say. Then take action.
➡️ Recognize Efforts
Public recognition can boost morale.
A simple “thank you” goes a long way.
➡️ Promote Balance
Allow time for life outside work.
Overworked employees burn out.
➡️ Give Chances to Grow
Invest in them. Provide training.
Show them a career path.
➡️ Build a Positive Culture
Ensure everyone feels valued and respected.
➡️ Set Clear Goals
Clearly define roles. Tell them what you expect.
➡️ Lead by Example
Show excitement. Work hard.
Be the way you want them to be.
Quiet quitting isn’t just an employee issue. It’s a leadership opportunity. It’s a chance to re-engage, re-inspire, and revitalize your workplace.
Resources
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/workers-disengaged-quiet-quitting-their-jobs-gallup/
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspx
Capitalism is the root cause of our ecological crisis and the key barrier to solving it.
There are two reasons for this. Firstly, capitalism cannot exist without economic growth, and economic growth is the main reason why our emissions have been increasing over the last 30 years and further growth will make it impossible to decarbonise in time to avoid activating tipping points.
Secondly, our minds have been shaped by capitalism and it is stopping us from seeing both the role capitalism plays in the cause of climate change and the full scope of solutions available to address the crisis. Social psychologist, Professor Harald Welzer, sums this up well, describing economic growth of industrial societies as “enshrined in business and politics, but also in the psychological structure of the people who grow up in such societies.”
https://erinremblance.substack.com/p/decapitalising-our-minds-the-key
There are six key ways in which capitalism shapes our minds. Under capitalism we, collectively, believe:
This ‘capitalisation’ of our minds creates a barrier to solving the climate crisis in many ways, including:
Unsurprisingly, the mindset we need to address the climate crisis is the exact opposite of the mindset described above.
A young statistician saved their lives.
His insight (and how it can change yours):
During World War II, the U.S. wanted to add reinforcement armor to specific areas of its planes.
Analysts examined returning bombers, plotted the bullet holes and damage on them (as in the image below), and came to the conclusion that adding armor to the tail, body, and wings would improve their odds of survival.
But a young statistician named Abraham Wald noted that this would be a tragic mistake. By only plotting data on the planes that returned, they were systematically omitting the data on a critical, informative subset: The planes that were damaged and unable to return.
• The “seen” planes had sustained damage that was survivable.
• The “unseen” planes had sustained damage that was not.
Wald concluded that armor should be added to the *unharmed* regions of the returning planes (the areas without bullet holes on the image below).
His profound logic: Where the survivors were unharmed was actually where the planes were most vulnerable.
Based on his insight, the military reinforced the engine and other vulnerable parts, significantly improving the safety of the crews during combat and saving thousands of lives.
Abraham Wald had identified a cognitive bias called “Survivorship Bias“: The error resulting from systematically focusing on survivors (successes) and ignoring casualties (failures) that causes us to miss the true base rates of survival (the actual probability of success) and arrive at flawed conclusions.
We see examples of Survivorship Bias all around us:
When we fail to consider the range of outcomes and the hidden evidence, we develop a skewed (and often incorrect) view of reality.
It cannot be avoided altogether, because the vast majority of books and history are written by and about the survivors and victors, but wherever possible, consider the unseen evidence. What is unseen often has just as much value as what is seen.
Credits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Wald, Abraham. Archived 2019-07-13 at the Wayback Machine. Center for Naval Analyses.
Wallis, W. Allen (1980). “The Statistical Research Group, 1942-1945: Rejoinder”. Journal of the American Statistical Association.
“Bullet Holes & Bias: The Story of Abraham Wald”. mcdreeamie-musing
“AMS :: Feature Column :: The Legend of Abraham Wald”. American Mathematical Society
‘How Not to Be Wrong’ by Jordan Ellenberg (released in 2014)
Visual effects make the impossible possible and thrill audiences, but the artists who toil over delicate and groundbreaking work don’t always get to take a bow—or in some cases, even acknowledge the existence of their work.
The source adds that sometimes there’s a blatant directive that “there will be no discussion of VFX. … We don’t want to overshadow the actors [or] we don’t want to break the mythology that somebody did all of these stunts.”
I’m very lonely: not terribly lonely. Because I love being alone. I need to be alone: to contemplate, to think. Sometimes even the people I love bother me: my daughter, my wife. And when it happens, quietly, I get up and go to my room. Yes, it’s difficult to live with me: this is a reproach that my mates have always addressed to me, and that Franca also addressed to me at the beginning. Now Franca has become accustomed to it, she finds this life normal even though she is very young.
I understood it, you know? I understood that she would like to go to places, to nightclubs. But I don’t like it, I never have. When I see that false amusement, I can’t help but think that behind each of those people there is a drama: the pianist perhaps has broken shoes, the industrialist has bills that are due, the hostess has her son. sick… I told them: I am a misanthrope, the basis of my life is the house.
The house, for me, is a fortress, almost a person. When I enter I always greet you like a person: “Good evening, home.” Today, for example, Franca is in Lugano and I am alone at home. Well: I’m fine with it.
Antonio de Curtis, Totò
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12 Ways to Inspire Your Team
How Peak Performers Create Healthy Work Culture
https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/
The AI Act is a proposed European law on artificial intelligence (AI) – the first law on AI by a major regulator anywhere. The law assigns applications of AI to three risk categories. First, applications and systems that create an unacceptable risk, such as government-run social scoring of the type used in China, are banned. Second, high-risk applications, such as a CV-scanning tool that ranks job applicants, are subject to specific legal requirements. Lastly, applications not explicitly banned or listed as high-risk are largely left unregulated.
Frederick Travis, PhD, director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition, explains that the concept “We create our reality” is more than a philosophical statement. It is a physical reality driven by neural plasticity—every experience changes the brain. Therefore, choose transcendental experiences and higher states of consciousness naturally unfold.
https://youtu.be/9cz4ikFcwMY?si=OSeQk8k6i8yO4r6f
https://youtu.be/rtUg_itWEz8?si=_A2I_ECHzjQDZ3x4
“I used GPT-4 to describe itself. Then I used its description to generate an image, a video based on this image and a soundtrack.
Tools I used: GPT-4, Midjourney, Kaiber AI, Mubert, RunwayML
This is the description I used that GPT-4 had of itself as a prompt to text-to-image, image-to-video, and text-to-music. I put the video and sound together in RunwayML.
GPT-4 described itself as: “Imagine a sleek, metallic sphere with a smooth surface, representing the vast knowledge contained within the model. The sphere emits a soft, pulsating glow that shifts between various colors, symbolizing the dynamic nature of the AI as it processes information and generates responses. The sphere appears to float in a digital environment, surrounded by streams of data and code, reflecting the complex algorithms and computing power behind the AI”
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65298834
“Drake’s complaint came after Universal Music Group wrote to streaming services including Spotify and Apple Music, asking them to prevent artificial intelligence companies from accessing their libraries.
It is thought companies have been using the music to “train” their software.
“We will not hesitate to take steps to protect our rights and those of our artists,” UMG warned in the email, first obtained by the Financial Times.
Several websites already offer fans the ability to create new songs using soundalike voices of pop’s biggest stars.
French DJ David Guetta recently used a site called uberduck.ai to mimic the voice of Eminem and add it to one of his instrumentals.
“I’m sure the future of music is in AI,” he told the BBC.”
A user of the new open-source autonomous AI project Auto-GPT asked it to try to “destroy humanity,” “establish global dominance,” and “attain immortality.” The AI, called ChaosGPT, complied and tried to research nuclear weapons, recruit other AI agents to help it do research, and sent tweets trying to influence others.
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Sono molto solo: non terribilmente solo. Perché io amo esser solo. Ho bisogno di essere solo: per contemplare, per pensare. A volte mi danno noia perfino le persone che amo: mia figlia, mia moglie. E, quando accade, zitto zitto, mi alzo e vado in camera mia. Sì, è difficile viver con me: questo è un rimprovero che le mie compagne mi hanno sempre rivolto, che all’ inizio mi rivolgeva anche Franca. Ora Franca vi si è assuefatta, trova questa vita normale sebbene sia giovanissima.
La capivo, sa? Capivo che le sarebbe piaciuto andare nei posti, nei night. Ma a me non piace, non è mai piaciuto. Io, quando vedo quel divertimento falso non posso fare a meno di pensare che dietro a ciascuna di quelle persone v’è un dramma: il pianista magari ha le scarpe rotte, l’industriale ha le cambiali che scadono, l’entraineuse ha il figlio ammalato… Gliel’ho detto: sono un misantropo, la base della mia vita è la casa.
La casa, per me, è una fortezza, quasi una persona. Quando vi entro la saluto sempre come una persona: «Buonasera, casa». Oggi, per esempio, Franca è a Lugano e in casa son solo. Be’: ci sto benissimo.
Antonio de Curtis, Totò