#Competence

[palatinewolfsblog]

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” - Mark Twain

[drspleenmeister]

Good GRIEF but the ‘gram has fed me today! Look at all these lovely chaps sitting down and patiently waiting for this frantic, thirsty bitch to climb into their laps…

[savagechickens]

Less Work.

And more competence.

[thepersonalquotes]

Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.

Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

[goodgrammaritan]

I never used to find competence so arousing. Probably because there’s so little of it in the world.

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

[lilliangst]

part 3/10 of my senior thesis project !! part 2

The pieces in this series explore the different stages of psychological development that a person may go through in their life, based on Erik Erikson’s theory

STAGE 4: INDUSTRY VS. INFERIORITY (7-11 YEARS)

VIRTUE: COMPETENCE/CONFIDENCE

We start going to school regularly and spend a lot of time with peers of the same age. As we compare ourselves with them, we develop pride or shame about our abilities and accomplishments. Under the stress of social and academic demands, we need to learn how to regulate our emotions and self-esteem when met with defeat and rejection.

Relationships: Caregivers, Teachers, Peers

Events: School, Examinations, Competitions, Failures, Successes

Outcomes: Confidence in our abilities. A healthy balance between feeling proud or inferior, helping us achieve our goals and get through setbacks. Or, a deep sense of inferiority that may hold us back from opportunities and growth.

[reading-writing-revolution]

It is crucial that everyone opposed to just lying down and being oppressed by the oligarchy clown show step forward and say words that are clear, concise and full of meaning to oppose every action, appointment and act of violence against American citizens.

You don't have to be awful. You don't have to cuss, although I do. You can simply let everyone in earshot understand that the worst human beings paraded out by Trump as his political and ideological leaders are not the kinds of humans one could or should trust running the country or leading an institution or major government organization.

We expect highly qualified, intelligent, responsible adults to lead our nation. We demand decency and competence, and we will not tolerate anything less.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Monica Lenis was in Great Exuma, Bahamas, yesterday when she caught this image of Starship's explosion. Thank you, Monica! SpaceX's flagship vehicle, #Starship - designed to take humans to the moon and Mars - exploded midair late yesterday minutes after its test launch from a beach in south Texas. Other aircraft flying over the Gulf of Mexico were forced to alter their courses in order to avoid the falling debris, which was seen by beachgoers in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. Starship itself was completely lost. Meanwhile, the Super Heavy booster that had launched Starship successfully returned to the launchpad and was caught in midair. Read more at https://earthsky.org/human-world/starship-explodes-minutes-after-launch-planes-diverted/

EarthSky

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In what sounds like an attempt to hand over air traffic control systems to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system and his AI company, Trump today said—and here are his words, as Aaron Rupar transcribed them—“We’re all gonna sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new. Not pieced together, obsolete, like it is, land-based. Trying to hook up a land based system to a satellite system. The first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can’t hook up land to satellites and you can’t hook up satellites to land. It doesn’t work. We spend billions of billions of dollars trying to renovate an old, broken system, instead of just saying cut it loose, and let’s spend less money and build a great system one by two or three companies, very good companies, specialists, that’s all it is. They used 39 companies. That means that 39 different hookups have to happen. And I don’t know how many people of you are good in terms of all the kinds of things necessary for that. And it's very complex stuff. But when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities at different people. You need one company. With one set of equipment. And there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems. And they would’ve, bells would’ve gone off when that helicopter literally even hit the same height. Because it traveled a long distance before it hit. It was just like, just wouldn’t stop. Follow the line. But bells and whistles would’ve gone off. They have ‘em where it actually could virtually turn the thing around. It would’ve just never happened if we had the right equipment . And one of things that’s gonna be, I'm gonna speaking to John and to Mike and to Chuck and everybody, we have to get together and just as a single bill just pass where we get the best control system. When I land in my plane, privately, I use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I’m landing in New York and I’m using a sys— I won’t tell you what country, but I use a system from another country because the captain says ‘This thing is so bad, it’s so obsolete.’ And we can’t have that.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted today that “the DOGE team” is “going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system,” saying that “‘experienced’ Washington bureaucrats are the reason our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling.”

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton pointed out that “US airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes. Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic controllers with layoffs. Now there have been two fatal crashes. Hope your unvetted 22-year-olds fix things fast.”

Critics of the idea of Musk taking over the nation’s air traffic control systems note that his Tesla electric vehicles have the highest fatal accident rate among all car brands in America. The average fatal crash rate is 2.8 per billion vehicle miles driven; Tesla has a rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven. On social media, “God” posted: “Thou shalt not let the foreign billionaire whose rockets blow up all the time anywhere near the air traffic control system,” an apparent reference to the January 16 explosion of a SpaceX rocket over the Caribbean that scattered debris over the region led the Federal Aviation Administration to lock down airspace over Turks and Caicos.

[Heather Cox Richardson : Letters From An American: Feb.6,2025]

[autumnweeen]

Dramione Month | Day 5 | Undetectable Extension Charm

@dhrmonth

Forgive any typos, I really tried!

[wordsoftheheartandsoul]

You have always been worth it. You have always been valuable enough. You have always been smart enough, beautiful enough, and capable enough to do what you're purposed for. Your value, competence, and capacities do not decrease simply because someone else cannot acknowledge or recognize it. Know who you are. Know what you're worth and accept nothing less.

Morgan Richard Olivier - the strength that stays

[spockvarietyhour]

[absurdlakefront]

So why do we celebrate the wrong leaders? Sometimes it comes down to pure racism and sexism. We have a well-documented bias for associating leadership with white men. But there is another culprit at work as well—what I like to call the action fallacy. Our mistaken belief that the best leaders are those who generate the most noise, action, and sensational activity in the most dramatic circumstances. In other words, we confuse a good story for good leadership.

But the two are not the same. As a matter of fact, very often, good leadership will result in a bad story.

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The action fallacy causes real problems, not just for our interpretation of the past. It affects leadership today. We see leadership potential in people who speak more, regardless of what they say. In people who appear confident, regardless of how competent they are. And we admire people who are perpetually busy, regardless of what they're actually doing.

Appearing to be a good leader, rather than actually being one behind the scenes, is the path to fame, bonuses, and promotions today. This causes problems. With the wrong leaders in charge, organizations don’t perform at their full potential. It creates a toxic culture where those doing good work feel overlooked and demotivated. And worst of all, it’s a self-perpetuating cycle.

The good news is, we can overcome this. It starts with re-imagining what good leadership looks like. We must celebrate those who mitigate rather than promote drama. They are obsessive planners, build strong processes, and create cultures that bring out the best in people.

[maxdrawer]

A drawing competence I made with an artist friend on the school (she's way better than I thought)

Just publishing random things

[stoicmike]

Competence is being able to deal with most of the situations that arise under normal circumstances. -- Michael Lipsey

[aunti-christ-ine]