The single most important thing is integrity. Going back to the dawn of humanity, integrity is the most important ideal. Reputation among peers.
I'll critique certain platforms and technologies dispassionately. When I brutally talk about the Fed, for example, I have no grudge against Jerome Powell as a human being. He's not doing a bad job for the situation he's in; it's the institution and the technology around it that's corrupt, not him as a person necessarily. To the minor extent that he is fair game to get meme'd as its figurehead, it's because he chose to participate as its leader. But I meme him in a way that is not negative towards him personally, and mostly just funny. I imagine Powell laughing if he sees any of my memes of him. I view him as neutral, so I neither attack nor defend.
When a high-integrity person succeeds, I'll quickly shout it out to support them. If they fail, I'll assess what happened and likely support their next thing, within reason. Business is hard, but people with high integrity get multiple shots.
When a low-integrity person succeeds, which is usually but not always through unscrupulous means, I'll acknowledge it but inspect it to see where the shortcomings were and broadcast them. To the extent that they become apparent, I'll point them out. When it comes to success, truth is important, and so those that try to succeed without truth are worthy of criticism.
In 20,000 tweets, I've been polite to everyone except maybe five people at most, and I stand by being impolite to those handful. On the other end of the spectrum, there are plenty of people who I disagree with at times, but who I view as serious people with high integrity. I purposely stand down with public criticism against those types, and will be more strategic or private with any criticism that I have.
That's the benefit of integrity. You get networks, and you get support. You don't get to bend reality, but you get flexibility from your peers when things don't work out, and you get instant promotion when things work well.
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Nice share Lyn, thank you.
amazing, well said
Agree and well said. On Nostr, we're building a web of trust and a web of integrity. Our reputation is our identity here. 🫂
In other words. “Don’t be Evil”
Glad to have you here Lyn!
This truth reaches beyond relationships with one's peers. It touches client relationships, the users of your products. This is at the heart of how I run the Private Wealth team, which is effectively Sales for Swan.
I tell every single member of our sales org during training:
1) Act like you work for the client, not me. Do what is in their best interest always
2) You build trust by revealing yourself. You can't just stick to the social script. You need to, tactfully, deviate and reveal yourself (interests, passions, real views on the world)
3) By doing this you not only put clients at ease because they are dealing with an actual human being not a sales person, but you open up a space for the client to reveal themselves as well.
4) Authenticity and Trust form the core pillars of our relationship with our clients, and should be the case for any business or entrepreneur
5) I give the example of Nietzsche's saying 'All strength is an excess of strength'. This means that Nietzsche believed true strength could only be known via excess, by doing things you didn't need to do.
It's the same in sales, client relationships, and business. It is by taking a risk and doing something which gives you absolutely no competitive advantage, that you actually build trust. You need to do something which may run the risk of actually being bad for you (risking judgement, negative reaction i.e- why is this guy telling me his thoughts on Nietzsche)
It's human relationship all of the way down.
View quoted note →Excellent post. I think Jerome Powell is probably a good man with integrity and I’m sure he thinks he is helping society.
But the structure of the system is fundamentally corrupt as it allows a small group of humans with the extraordinary power to create money (without work) and decide on the price of that money. It always ends up
transferring wealth disproportionately to those already powerful and wealthy.
Powell is not beyond blame either, when he decided to play this game he accepted the rules and that tells you whether you have integrity or not (enter all excuses here... as to why he did it) I don't blame him or hold grudge for him either (don't really care that much, I just know where he stands and that's enough to form an opinion... Keep doing what you doing Lyn, you got it right.
Tegridy
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Excellent
Lyn's one of the smartest cookies, pure class and a very decent human being.
View quoted note →I have seen this in you, it’s a big reason for my follow: thank you!
The high integrity people eventually walk away from corrupt organizations that they realize they cannot change and go build something new, which is what many of you are doing—and setting terrific examples of what goodness really is.
My grandma taught me to praise specifically and criticize generally.
Your writing is so much better for it. No one person is usually to blame, just bad systems and incentives.
I also know another community without bots', where everyone builds.
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The problems humanity is dealing with are systemic. Making issues personal is the MSM way of doing things - perfectly exemplified in Don't Look Up (2021). A mind-blowing though experiment is to consider a head of some office or president of some country, 100% pure at heart with the best intentions, bumping into all the systemic forces at play that block them from doing the Right™ thing. Makes you wonder how change is effected in the overly complex systems that sustain our way of life.
On the point! Integrity above all! But we have half of the world trying to deceive the other half!
The people who shared this 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 by the way, I did not see this before I posted the word ‘important’ on Twitter
This is satire right??? Good morning giggle
I really enjoy and appreciate your considered thoughts Lyn -- 'Fire' --'Diamond' -- Brilliant, Insightful, Balanced, Mind --
Well said!
Dont say anything about our Powell uncle.
He is a stripper for our Financial markets club 💃🕺
Deleted Twitter today and installed nostr client
My first zap
Integrity, You are nothing without it. 👇
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The hardest part of this is maintaining one's own integrity in the face of those that don't.
I'm an electrical/hardware/product engineer. I have a long history of doing good work for clients.
Recently I've had to sue a company for breach of contract. I say 'had to' because I felt I had no choice but to stand up in defence of my own self interests, but also justice and truth itself.
Long story short, their primary defence was to attempt to paint me as a bad employee and bad person. They also blatantly lied about the details of our deal, accused me of theft, threatened to sue me back, lied about receiving outside investment, and in general lied at every opportunity to protect their own interests/greed.
Luckily for me, I rode fearlessly into battle with Truth at my side. I had proof of everything and easily disproved all their lies/slander.
The battle continues, but they've already offered to settle. They know they're wrong and their defense rests unsteady on a foundation of lies.
If you maintain your integrity, and respect truth as you would the unbreakable laws of physics, eventually an apple, or an anvil, will fall on those who don't.
View quoted note →Hard cover, thin
But in doing what he’s doing Powell has no integrity and is in fact evil. I don’t understand why he gets a pass?
Someone has to run the fiat system or society will literally collapse. The system is already in place. I'd rather have Powell doing it than someone worse. We all participate in systems we know are not ethical. That's just a part of life. The ideal scenario would be a slow collapse of the fiat system that allows bitcoin to proliferate and become a lifeboat, as opposed to a fast collapse that would cause mass poverty and chaos.
As to the value of integrity in our society, Lyn described it well ^^
He's not doing a bad job for the situation he's in; it's the institution and the technology around it that's corrupt, not him as a person necessarily.
I’ll push back on this point , Powell is in a predicament of his own creation by ignoring or misjudging the incredibly inflationary stimulus injected into the economy “ to be fair, during a crisis” and the ramifications of a zirp policy in combination with $9 trillion of fiscal stimulus, he had no choice but to increase rates at a historical pace and such action is the result of incompetence
Great post. Nice work.
Integrity, empathy and energy. The rest can be taught.
nice. screen captured! thanks!
Legend!
Sometimes if you are working within the system you don’t know that it is corrupt.
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful” - RBFuller
High integrity are those who considers the long game, who they want to become and move along that trajectory over time, low integrity is short term thinking and going for the quick win no matter what. Intuitively it becomes apparent who’s doing what. This is not fixed, we can change it if we choose to, but we can’t see what we can’t see until we can. ✌️ ❤️ appreciate your your writing and outlooks.
Integrity good. Scrupulous bad.
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