The Long Now Foundation’s guidelines for a long-lived institution include: “Reward patience”, “Mind mythic depth”, “Ally with competition”
I don't know for sure what they meant by it but what it means to me is that we always act within a dense context of stories & histories that affect us powerfully, subconsciously. America! The Bible! Good vs Evil! Man vs Nature! Gods and Demons! Fear of Death! To name just a few.
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So "Mind" here I take as a reminder that an institution's narrative will be more successful in the long term if can "surf" or "go with the flow of" deep cultural narratives
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But also “Mind” in the mundane sense, as in “Mind the gap”
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