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An oasis of adequacy.
I was already taken aback — a man and a woman, pushing a large stroller with a child, ran across Lesia Ukrainka Boulevard in Kyiv through six lanes. The separating fence was broken in a couple of places, which created a temptation. During the first weeks of the war, there were not many cars, so many people stopped using the underpass two hundred meters away and began saving time by moving straight through.
The problem is that this particular boulevard is one of the best roads in town: quality asphalt, straight sections and new full-length traffic lights. So day and night amateur racers on cars and sportbikes are trying to see who has the bigger, ahem, exhaust pipe.
The situation here can change in a split second. Just then it was empty, when suddenly a biker comes out and a tuned Geländewagen chases after him. What’s on the mind of grown men with strollers who put three of their lives on “zero”? Probably like the steppe, there's nothing there but wind. There are dozens of such examples if you watch people closely.
Business creates the illusion that there are many adequate people around you. Former CIA agent Andrew Bustamante, MBA told Lex Fridman in an interview that the only thing he misses is the high concentration of smart, energetic and determined people one encounters in the corridors of Langley. You, too, are likely to inhabit an "oasis of adequacy", beyond which you are much more likely to find absurdity, delirium, and chaos. So we need to appreciate the fragile harmony felt at least somewhere from time to time. And to be grateful for an imperfect micro-world in which to live, work, and create. This is already a lot.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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