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Stop all

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Every one of the pings, dings and clicks on this page gives me the hives. Run them in a quick sequence and I need to leave the room. They are our Pavlovian bells, designed to trigger us into action.

At the bottom right is a button that says ‘stop all.’

That’s a useful idea.

We didn’t sign up for this all at once. We were seduced into becoming trained seals gradually, fish by fish.

Important work might not be quick or automatic or easy.

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All the cards

Business

If someone hands you a deck, you can be sure there are 52 cards covering four suits.

The universe is finite. The cards are the cards, and games work precisely for that reason. Every deck is the same, and all the players have the same options.

Some of the systems we compete in have a limited number of cards, known to all.

More often, though, there is the possibility of surprise. Options that weren’t considered by others, paths that are still unexplored. Technology mints new cards, but so do brave decisions and commitment.

It’s rare to know all the available cards, and rarer still to have them all.

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