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I suspect one subconscious reason I'm interested in maker stuff right now is that I think we're entering a kind of ronin world where the doers of the world are in an unusually autonomous condition due to the fall of political/cultural leaderly elites... 🤔
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If the philosophy is too turgid for you, think about it this way. How would the business world run if all the CEOs were to vanish suddenly, leaving CTOs in charge? Or if all politicians and political appointees vanished leaving the top bureaucrats in charge?
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This is not a trivial question. Despite the valorization of "doers" in SV culture in particular, doers are not generally natural leaders, and entrepreneurial leaders who talk a big "doing" game often "do" only a little, the rest of their contribution being leading.
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Whether or not they are clueless, they typically a) don't want to lead b) are bad at leading if forced to b) tend to want direction and motivation from external loci (what and why) so they can focus on doing (how).
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When leadership is absent, or fails, or gets killed off literally or metaphorically by events, you get a world of ronin. Ronin are defined by leadership-vacuum angst. The experience the anomie of lack of meaning-structure, but lack the personal cognitive resources to fix it.
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(disclosure, I'm neither a natural leader, nor a natural doer, though I can sort of pinch-hit reasonably competently at both so long as it's not too demanding in terms of sheer time and effort... I'm primarily a natural observer)
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