grumpymuppet

This really resonated with me (I'm now in my 40s).

I missed out on so much because I never pushed back on management who asked me to do X, Y, or Z. "Oh, that's the priority" I'd tell myself. Nope, that was their ass getting promoted by managing a bigger team.

Repeatedly hearing "we don't do X, Y, or Z" when I saw an opportunity to innovate. Nope, that was just an uncreative bored person who didn't want to play along.

I simultaneously feel so lucky to be where I am and so absolutely frustrated at how poorly run and disorganized EVERYTHING seems to be.

I've decided in the next phase of life to kind of do like you suggest. Focus on "the doing" of something I like.

I may even have that opportunity, but my area is facing a lot of instability lately, so I hope it works out.

I love the promise of ranked choice voting (and other schemes). Properly implemented it seems like it could be a magic bullet to balancing some of the political divide and drawing out candidates and ideas that would satisfy more than just the extremes...

But, oh boy: we have trouble with simple plurality voting. How would you explain the outcome to people if it was implemented broadly?

I made a quilt that uses this texture. I used the same rainbow scale that one of the last pictures on the site illustrates, So it looks a lot like this. 6 ft by 6 ft decoration I've got hanging on the wall.