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The terrible loop began on a Tuesday and didn’t end until the day I saw a skullcracker swallow the brain of a bank-hired assassin.
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Jeremy Robert Johnson (Skullcrack City)
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But it is smarter to see these expectations as signals that the workplace has failed to create the satisfying feedback loops that have multiplied in other aspects of our lives. Research from the Young Entrepreneur Council shows that 80 percent of millennials would prefer to get feedback in “real time.” A 2014 Millennial Impact Report showed that “more than half (53%) of respondents said having their passions and talents recognized and addressed is their top reason for remaining at their current company.
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Jeremy Heimans (New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You)
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They were raised as part of a “trophy generation,” recognized for the act of participation rather than the level of performance, getting medals and lavish praise just for completing the race. The parenting philosophy that governed their early years—build self-esteem above all—conspires to deliver the same artificial feedback loops as most social networks: persuading the individual that the ordinary moments of their lives are actually of extraordinary value. Those who enter the workplace with this mindset often find that reality bites hard. And so do their bosses.
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Jeremy Heimans (New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You)
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Every morning when you wake up, I want you to make two promises to yourself. One, you’ll do your best to stay healthy and keep living. Two, you’ll be as good as you can to others and yourself.’ And that’s it.
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Jeremy Robert Johnson (The Loop)
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Is that where we’re at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?
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Jeremy Robert Johnson (The Loop)
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Is that where we're at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?
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Jeremy Robert Johnson (The Loop)
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Lucy wondered where she might be at that exact moment if she hadn’t spent so much time trying to be the right version of herself for those around her.
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Jeremy Robert Johnson (The Loop)
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All of that requires that they do what you’re talking about: destroying our empathy and reducing our faith in reason. Those guys on the border laughed when they let you through because you’re not even human to them. You’re a unit of something else. They rename you ‘test subject’ or ‘enemy,’ or they assign you a race or a nation or a class—and then they don’t have to think about you anymore.
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Jeremy Robert Johnson (The Loop)
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You guys were the ones who thought it would be okay to pop a fucking octopus computer into somebody’s neck.
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Jeremy Robert Johnson (The Loop)