"Humans are simply NOT designed to _be_ happy, we are designed to _search_ for happiness."
If that were true, then all humans and the people in all cultures would be equally unhappy. And everyone would be equally unhappy all the time. But they are not, partly because of people's expectation levels.
"make a multiyear purchasing decision based upon recent events" You have this all backwards. The fact is that for many decades petroleum is an unreliable energy source due to geopolitical factors, but people have been pretending that was not the case. What has happened in the last two months is people have finally realized the long-term truth.
Interesting, but assuming they can get the engine to work as intended, the question still remains how the passenger jet would get up to Mach 5 so the engine can start working. A solid-fuel rocket booster that would then drop off?
The focus of the article is on why Japanese corporations excel at so many different areas. Are you saying that all the factors it mentions, like employees being trained as generalists, life-time and so on, are completely irrelevant? or are you saying they are important but some other essential factors were left out?
There are various causes. One is that live performing has pretty much died as a source of income. Venues have closed because of rising rents and fewer customers, due to covid and people in general staying home and spending their time on social media. Touring has also gotten much more expensive.
Also recording has died out as a source of income for most artists due to streaming and now ai. Also session work where most musicians have been replace first by computer generated music and now ai.
Also recording companies have stopped signing acts and then publicizing them. Every artist is expected to do their own promoting on social media. And then, as Beato says in the video, there is the lack of practice spaces, and cheap apartments to live in.
I am a fan of the astonishing prodigy drummer Yoyoka Soma. She moved her family from Japan to LA 4 years ago, but was able to do it only because she has a rich patron. I am also a fan of the astonishing prodigy singer Angelina Jordan. She moved her family from Norway to LA 7 years ago, but was able to do it only because her grandmother, whom moved with them, is wealthy.
This is so speculative. I think the first step in determining why some people believe they are much more competent than they really are would be to interview them on how they came to believe it.
I think the fact that the author thinks this is unnecessary and that he can determine the cause of this phenomenon without this sort of empirical research indicates he believes he is better at understanding how one goes about determining human psychology than he really is.
I agree. And modern Western science and political thought has followed Aristotle far more than Plato. In particular, the parts of Aristotle's science that got thrown out was the result of following out his empirical method further than he was able to. We have also followed his empirical approach to political philosophy rather than Plato's Republic.
The problem started because Azure was initially designed and released in a huge rush because Microsoft was so far behind AWS and needed something better.
I am reminded of the research finding that every human-designed complex system that works well started with a simple system that did did just one thing well, and new functions were added one at a time, with each one perfected before moving on to another. Which is the exact opposite of what happened here.
Remember, Microsoft's goal is to turn Windows into an AI agent that keeps all your data in the cloud, that it can use that data for endless money-making purposes like advertising, and that you pay for with a dozen different subscriptions.
Microsoft will continue to move in that direction in various overt and covert manners, and any so-called responding to what users wants is just a charade.
If that were true, then all humans and the people in all cultures would be equally unhappy. And everyone would be equally unhappy all the time. But they are not, partly because of people's expectation levels.