A given power structure will generate ideal citizens that fit it.
- A given power structure will generate ideal citizens that fit it.
- The ones that will survive and thrive are the ones that align with the inherent logic of the system.
- A consistent asymmetry.
- Over time, this force compounds; it gets harder and harder for the members who don't align.
- A kind of ideal citizen in modern large-scale bureaucracy is what David Brooks calls "organization kids".
- Discipline over curiosity.
- If you optimize for what can be measured by external indicators of quality, you lose the internal quality that can't be measured.
- Unenrolled in their own development.
- Making themselves "below the API."