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Radagasts thrive in positive-sum environments, so much so that they create them around them if they're not in them. They terraform their surrounding world (to...
... sharks know they're sharks. Some, for whatever reason, come to think they're a Radagast. Beware Sarumans pretending to be a Radagast
Sarumans have a slight edge over Radagasts. We all love narratives with clear stories. The Radagast worldview is indirect; harder to distill into a story. The Saruman worldview is easier to d...
...e mercenaries. Saruman. Companies that primarily create value are missionaries. Radagast.
Saruman is a hedgehog. Radagast is a fox.
The synthesis of the Saruman and the Radagast is the Gandalf. It's extremely hard to keep the synthesis active in one person. It's convex. As you start getting pulled towards one extreme, it pull...
Sarumans hate bureaucracy. But so do Radagasts. Although they're less likely to use the word "hate." Bureaucracy is about the status quo and downside capping. Innovation is about upside. Both the...
Saruman: "fall in line." Radagast: "fall in love."[q]
The Saruman is about egoistic achievement. The Radagast is about community achievement.
...ayoffs individuals focus on themselves, to cap their downside. How can you be a Radagast in an environment where people are existentially afraid?
...ea of playing as the chef who feeds the warriors that protect the village is so Radagast-y.
...y is more tightly aligned with Saruman. Missionary is more tightly aligned with Radagast.
A Radagast engineer creates weird but cool initial seeds, some of which could blossom into amazing things.
More Radagast wisdom from a friend: "As Anais Nïn said, "we see things not as they are, but as we are". If we lose the courage to believe that revolutions are poss...
I love the Radagast energy in Code is a Joy: "Joyful artistic technology is humane, useful, interesting, accomplished and occasionally it may be profitable and world-cha...
...erent to comprehending. " The left brain is the Saruman; the right brain is the Radagast. Claude's riff unpacking 'Apprehending vs comprehending': "Comprehending is the left hemisphere's mode - it's analytical, sequential, and builds unde...
...ll declare: "It must be that I'm the only one bold enough to pull the lever." A Radagast will answer: "No, you're the only one dumb enough to not see the indirect downside cost if you pull it, or shameless enough to not care." Maybe there...
A friend asked me if Drucker's The Effective Executive is more Saruman, Radagast, or Gandalf like. I thought Claude's answer was pretty astute, especially the last line: "I would classify Drucker as predominantly Gandalf-like, wit...
... viewpoints that changes the game. The former is the Saruman, the latter is the Radagast. The differentiator is curiosity.
A trick to think like a Radagast: try to see not what is but what could be. What is is often a bit of a bummer; imperfect, messy, busted. But what could be is more inspiring, the sky...