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What happened in all the great companies that fell is they made a shift from a humble drive to an arrogance, the belief they somehow magically deserved all that success - "We're just really better than everybody else, and we always will be." The great irony is that leads to the undisciplined pursuit of more, and it's very hard to preserve your values and your basic model if you grow too fast...
...partner Rosemary Chesang, 34. He is Kikuyu, she Kalenjin and the couple own a hut half a mile from the church, where Chege grew maize and potatoes and Chesang raised their six children. Chege never thought much about the divide that ran through their land yet somehow spared their home. But after 16 months in a refugee camp, being alternately called traitors by Kikuyus and Kalenjins, he realized "ours is a slightly special case." When asked how Kenya's future would turn out, Chege spoke about his children. "When they play," he said, "they chase each other shouting 'The Kalenjin...
...funny thing happened on the way to the knowledge economy, writes Matthew Crawford: we somehow got stupider. Globalization and technology are doing to white collar jobs in the 21st century what the assembly line did to trades in the 20th--turning them into repetitive, menial, dissatisfying tasks. "Wherever the separation of thinking from doing has been achieved," he writes, "it has been responsible for the degradation of work." Crawford, a political-philosophy Ph.D. and motorcycle-shop owner, stresses the importance of the manual trades and the cognitive challenge of working with solid things (preferably grimy, metal ones). He packs plenty...
...apply the lessons of the past to the future. As we face down the hardships and struggles of our time," he said, "and arrive at that hour for which we were born, we cannot help but draw strength from those moments in history when the best among us were somehow able to swallow their fears and secure a beachhead on an unforgiving shore...
...people will stop waging war - every war is absurd and meaningless; where people will stop hating one another; where people will hate the otherness of the other rather than respect it. But the world hasn't learned. When I was liberated in 1945, April 11, by the American army, somehow many of us were convinced that at least one lesson will have been learned - that never again will there be war; that hatred is not an option, that racism is stupid; and the will to conquer other people's minds or territories or aspirations, that will is meaningless...