Accountability

"Saying it's not your fault you crashed the ship into the rock
because the rock was underwater and hidden
nobody could have seen it coming loses its force
when you are navigating in waters that are known to be rocky.

Even if you have the latest sonar based upon fancy, innovative math
that is supposed to detect the rock before you hit it
and even if regulators were supposed to clearly map and mark all danger
if you hit it anyway,
there's a reason why captains are expected to go down with
or at best be the last ones off – the ship.

It ensures they'll do all they can to avoid hitting it in the first place."

Mark Thoma
The Professionals are not being Held Accountable
Economists View

Don’t say you can if you can’t, say you’re going to and not,

be a very good bad example, think you know what you don’t,

do what you don’t understand,

sacrifice future unhappiness for an unnecessarily pleasant present,

underestimate irrationality, offend many to benefit few,

and not hold yourself and others accountable.

What does spending more than you make look like?

 Chart Via Business Insider

Don’t make bets you can’t afford to lose when confronting an opponent with unlimited resources who can arbitrarily change the rules.

I don't care if I follow your rules, if you can cheat, so can I.

 

 I won't let you beat me unfairly, I'll beat you unfairly first.

 

Ender Wiggin

Fictional Military Strategist

Don't underestimate irrationality

If you meet a madman who says that he is a fish and that we are all fishes
do you take off your clothes to show him that you do not have fins?

Milan Kundera

If you were a fish
would you be sick of seafood?

If every rule has an exception, including the rule that there’s an exception to every rule, are there rules without exceptions?

Always and never,

are two words you should always remember never to use.

 

Wendell Johnson

Don’t do anything you don’t want done to you, unless you need to.

Don't let obsession with righteousness metastasize into hubris

 

let small mistakes become big ones

by eliminating what’s not working and by doing more of what is

sooner than later

underestimate irrationality

 

rationalize faults by blaming others

 

over-adore wanted acquisition

think you know what you don’t

 

swim with the incontinent

 

sacrifice future unhappiness

for an unnecessarily pleasant present

hide confusion with obliqueness

 

offend many to benefit few

 

or do what you don’t understand

Text and Drive

Is texting while driving a dangerous idea?

 

We decided to conduct a test

 

Texting While Driving: How Dangerous is it?

Michael Austin

Car and Driver

 

Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman

reaction times while driving 70 miles per hour

 

Unimpaired         54 seconds to brake

 

Legally drunk      4 feet farther

 

Reading e-mail    36 feet farther

 

Sending a text      70 feet farther

 

If most drivers are slower to react

when e-mailing and texting

than when legally impaired…?

Don’t let small mistakes become big onesby eliminating what’s not workingand doing more of what issooner than later

Don't offend many to benefit few

Don't underestimate irrationality