Systems

The system is broken. No need to be specific at this point, right? It might be it's easier to list what it working right - it's certainly not this -

We depend on so much going right in so many systems. We got so comfortable with everything being at our fingertips pretty much any time of day. And within each sector of the economy, when something goes wrong, it gets messy. The last few years have seen major tests of any and all systems that most people have the privilege to never really think about - health, logistics, education, finance, energy, politics, office space, travel...some have held up better than others but hey, at least we're not fighting each other over having enough to eat...yet. In most places.

But we can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs, amirite? Kyla Scanlon explains the 'eggconomy'

So where do we go from here? What should we worry about now?

WEF survey says:

There are huge risks presenting themselves now as illustrated in this Marsh McLennan Global Risks Report

We have to protect ourselves, our businesses, our health, our families, our data, our institutions, our infrastructure. No pressure, just our whole way of life.

And the respondents in the survey were not very optimistic to say the least -

Grim stuff. It's so easy to fall into the rabbit hole of negativity. I just think we've come too far forward to let that happen. We can't just turn into ourselves and scroll endlessly on our phones - the confirmation bias built into these platforms will only suck you in more and more and you'll get nothing done. And seeing what others are doing while you're wasting time just compounds into further hurtful emotions, like envy. Read this from Vishal Khandelwal:

But it's a lot easier said than done, the not worrying too much thing. There was one point in time I really thought (and still do think) we were close to going over the edge, and that was the Global Financial Crisis (the GFC). Looking back at The GFC really helps put things in perspective - the stress the system was under at that point could have crushed it and I think it really almost did. We're in a different world now, still dealing with the most recent crisis. We have the tools to somehow slog through, at least a little bit better than before.

Looking forward, we need to be ahead of the game and keep innovating, especially in the financial world. Nicole Casperson is the perfect person to talk to about these issues, so please join.

It's an easy time to lose hope and become nihilistic, we have to care about something to care about.

Find that one thing that you can depend on and hold on tight.

What's your system?