Great story. Failure is a great teacher. Even in chess, the winner never wins with all his pieces still on the board.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:44 PM Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I wonder of this story is in our Grimms Fairy Tales book somewhere. We read > that book a lot. > > Back in college, we learned in western civilization that the original > version of red riding hood was french, from the 1700s. In that version, > there is no woodsman who comes to save the day. The wolf eats little red > riding hood, and the moral of the story is " Don't be gullible". I think > this is sort of an old world attitude. > > A friend was on foreign exchange in Dresden. She biked to class on a path > every day. One day, there were wet leaves on a curve. She lost control, > crashed and it was a total yard sale with papers and books flying > everywhere. She tumbled and came to rest on some grass. She saw an older > woman biking up to her and thought "oh I bet she will ask if I am OK". To > her surprise, as the older woman biked past, she neither slowed nor looked, > saying in German "That was stupid! You were going too fast!" > > We need to be more imaginative as a society and culture about anticipating > failure. Stories are a great way to practice low consequence failure. Chess > is also a good immediate feedback type education in being careful. > > Everybody tune into th he Mars landing now! > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 11:14 AM G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > > In childhood, my age group was taught a very simple logic via a story. > > "For want of a nail, a shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, a horse was > lost. > > For want of a horse, a knight was lost. For want of a knight, a battle > was > > lost. For want of a battle, a Kingdom was lost, and the people suffered." > > > > The Objective Lesson of this nursery story was, to always keep track of > the > > small things that large things depend on to function. > > The current Objective Lesson is that society has now forgotten to keep > > track of the nailsn, and that forgetting is the nail that keeps all > things > > functional. > > > > Another lesson on just how smart people are truly stupid? Perhaps. > > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 8:56 AM Rick Knoble via Mercedes < > > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > Yep. The issue isn't a single issue. It is a failure on several levels, > > > with no "what if" contingency plans in place. Older technology was > built > > to > > > a more robust standard. Today's products are seemingly built down to a > > > price. > > > > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > > > Sent: February 18, 2021 9:17 AM > > > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > > > Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com > > > Cc: atypical...@gmail.com > > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT why Texas has gone dark > > > > > > Ok I think I understand what you are saying, but to carry the > 240d/tesla > > > analogy further, you're saying the Tesla (electric natural gas pumps) > > > caused the electricity to fail. So its failure is both a symptom of the > > > electricity failing and a cause of the electricity failing. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
