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“The global economy is experiencing a structural breakdown in the conversion of financial claims into physical output. I define this failure as the Hard Bifurcation: the separation of the monetary economy from the physical economy. For forty years, the two systems moved together. Money flowed into markets, and goods flowed out. That linkage has broken.”
~ Craig Tindale
We Need an Inner Generation Transfer of Knowledge and Experience
Craig Tindale understands how central banking policies have hollowed out Western economies and how decades of outsourcing limit our ability to preserve and rebuild our industrial base, defend ourselves, and thrive as a civilization.
Thank you for this interview. The discussions about innovation and removal of engineers and scientists from the senior management of organizations is so accurate. When I started working I met many older people who would talk about the designers as operators and how as time went on eventually trainers who were trained are trying to mentor engineers who are expected to innovate. During this transition bean counters (accounting) became king to projects. Program managers no longer are engineers who have moved up. So, entire projects end up being considered successful because money was “obligated and expensed.” The money is off my books so it’s going great, I don’t have to return it. The other great point, and it is quite serious, is once you turn something off then it is off. I have watched a number of capabilities archived or mothballed. The cost to turn the capabilities back on is cost prohibitive. Then there is just awful malaise. The human capital is a HUGE problem, a mix of numbers but more an issue of quality education and quality employee. The under 45s wait to be told what to do. There are rockstars in this group, but there are a higher percentage of rockstars in the over 45s. The over 45s are willing to work, try and risk failure. I’m 24 minutes in, I wish we could get everyone who thinks they are interested in “leadership” or “management” should listen to this. It frightens me how many people think a number in a qualified retirement plan has value or will if everything crumbles around them as time goes on.
Catherine sometimes says she is a “people person”. My translation of that is, she values the differences of persons that make up the fabric of society and all are needed and valued.
As a nurse all my life I saw managers imported to help the hospital get ready regulative to get subsidies needed to survive. The subsidies regulation were thought up by peoples that modeled it only on extraction. It lead to today, admittance into a hospital runs thru instructions via a pole insted of a person!
Western societies especially, have been sold a bill of nonsence how healthy “service to self” is. We practically can’t think any other way and it has made our societies come undone. Infecting broad society with their sickness of unending extraction is what is killing us all today!
I did not trust Catherine even after becoming a member of Solari. It wasn’t until I met and talked to her on one of her gatherings, I experieced talking to a person, not a banker, that I melted. Service to others can only be by engaging with other peoples from all walks of live and appreciate what they offer and put it in perspective so we can all thrive.
I don’t have an entrepreneurial bone in my body and haute finance (banking) does not interest me one bit. That does not mean I don’t understand the importance of it and do want to support the ones who do.
What makes us intelligent is the full complexity of what and what we are – each person is unique. When each unique person blossoms, civilization grows. The extraction model is an endless destroyer of human possibility. Just horrible. And the impact on economy and financial system is to ultimately destroy it.
Funny – that’s what I was thinking as I listened to the end of this discussion where Craig lavishes kudos on AI and how helpful it is to have hours-ling conversations with “it”.
Maybe I’m missing a point here but isn’t this the path right into the digital control panopticon?
I don’t think Tindale understands the full panopticon issues – since it was the end of the interview, it was not the time to brief him – will look for a way to do so. Meantime, I am working on a commentary about the practical issues and choices we are manaing with AI. As a tool to improve productivity, it can be applied in ways that are highly beneficial and useful. For most small business, one way or another it is essentially unavoidable if you are going to remain economic. For example, it is the best search engine available. All digital tech leads into the panopticon. So the question is how to balance the analog and digital. AI is part of that mix.
This engineered energy crisis is about many things but one thing I think it is designed to do is further shift us from analog to digital. How can people pay cash if they cannot drive to the store? This is really going to shift a greater percentage of purchases online and therefore put more pressure on cash usage.
I wish Control Engineers had gotten a mention. We sit between Science and Mathematics, hence it is difficult to get people to understand what we do. When I retired and looked back, I realised that the real job was to keep people from killing themselves.
What Craig brought to mind was the UK in the 1960’s. Harold Wilson decided that the UK would no longer be the workshop of the world. Instead we would sell designs, and other intellectual property. That destroyed the aircraft industry, and helped destroy shipbuilding in the UK. That, and other government initiatives destroyed incentives for engineering as a profession. I came to realise that a peasant farmer ploughing a field behind an ox had more capital invested in him than my employer had invested in our Engineers.
May I recommend a video about where software and AI is going? “Denmark goes full on Linux” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSfqTq2HThI
I had a situation here that is disturbing. I bought a windows 10 laptop, took it to a tech company and had Windows 10 uninstalled, Linex installed, as well as Zoron and Libre Office. When I was trying to work with this new system, I was asked if I wanted it “Sync” and it listed sites I went to including Solari. The new machine is not connected to my system, so how did the new machine access my information? The only thing that I can think of, is that it connected by my fingerprints.
If anyone knows why this happened, I would appreciate knowing.
Seems europe is very busy getting USA software out. France also ditched windows and gone linux. Europe has lauched sovereign cloud, has a free euro-office gone live. I don’t recommend the channel I posted because I consider it european propaganda, but as an european I follow to know what they are up too. I think the europeans got a waking up jolt and are decoupling as fast as they can. https://office.eu/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRy22w1K4A
Excellent. If USA had done that in 1994, I suspect that we would not be missing $21 trillion and thousands of government CPAs and IT managers would have far fewer control files.
Loved “meeting” Craig! Found his discussion about conversing with and instructing multiple AI platforms to hash out company dynamics Fascinating. Will look into his work on Substack. Always refreshes my mind and elevates my IQ to listen to Catherine and her guests.
Thank you for this interview. The discussions about innovation and removal of engineers and scientists from the senior management of organizations is so accurate. When I started working I met many older people who would talk about the designers as operators and how as time went on eventually trainers who were trained are trying to mentor engineers who are expected to innovate. During this transition bean counters (accounting) became king to projects. Program managers no longer are engineers who have moved up. So, entire projects end up being considered successful because money was “obligated and expensed.” The money is off my books so it’s going great, I don’t have to return it. The other great point, and it is quite serious, is once you turn something off then it is off. I have watched a number of capabilities archived or mothballed. The cost to turn the capabilities back on is cost prohibitive. Then there is just awful malaise. The human capital is a HUGE problem, a mix of numbers but more an issue of quality education and quality employee. The under 45s wait to be told what to do. There are rockstars in this group, but there are a higher percentage of rockstars in the over 45s. The over 45s are willing to work, try and risk failure. I’m 24 minutes in, I wish we could get everyone who thinks they are interested in “leadership” or “management” should listen to this. It frightens me how many people think a number in a qualified retirement plan has value or will if everything crumbles around them as time goes on.
Catherine sometimes says she is a “people person”. My translation of that is, she values the differences of persons that make up the fabric of society and all are needed and valued.
As a nurse all my life I saw managers imported to help the hospital get ready regulative to get subsidies needed to survive. The subsidies regulation were thought up by peoples that modeled it only on extraction. It lead to today, admittance into a hospital runs thru instructions via a pole insted of a person!
Western societies especially, have been sold a bill of nonsence how healthy “service to self” is. We practically can’t think any other way and it has made our societies come undone. Infecting broad society with their sickness of unending extraction is what is killing us all today!
I did not trust Catherine even after becoming a member of Solari. It wasn’t until I met and talked to her on one of her gatherings, I experieced talking to a person, not a banker, that I melted. Service to others can only be by engaging with other peoples from all walks of live and appreciate what they offer and put it in perspective so we can all thrive.
I don’t have an entrepreneurial bone in my body and haute finance (banking) does not interest me one bit. That does not mean I don’t understand the importance of it and do want to support the ones who do.
What makes us intelligent is the full complexity of what and what we are – each person is unique. When each unique person blossoms, civilization grows. The extraction model is an endless destroyer of human possibility. Just horrible. And the impact on economy and financial system is to ultimately destroy it.
I could not agree more!
Funny – that’s what I was thinking as I listened to the end of this discussion where Craig lavishes kudos on AI and how helpful it is to have hours-ling conversations with “it”.
Maybe I’m missing a point here but isn’t this the path right into the digital control panopticon?
I don’t think Tindale understands the full panopticon issues – since it was the end of the interview, it was not the time to brief him – will look for a way to do so. Meantime, I am working on a commentary about the practical issues and choices we are manaing with AI. As a tool to improve productivity, it can be applied in ways that are highly beneficial and useful. For most small business, one way or another it is essentially unavoidable if you are going to remain economic. For example, it is the best search engine available. All digital tech leads into the panopticon. So the question is how to balance the analog and digital. AI is part of that mix.
This engineered energy crisis is about many things but one thing I think it is designed to do is further shift us from analog to digital. How can people pay cash if they cannot drive to the store? This is really going to shift a greater percentage of purchases online and therefore put more pressure on cash usage.
I wish Control Engineers had gotten a mention. We sit between Science and Mathematics, hence it is difficult to get people to understand what we do. When I retired and looked back, I realised that the real job was to keep people from killing themselves.
What Craig brought to mind was the UK in the 1960’s. Harold Wilson decided that the UK would no longer be the workshop of the world. Instead we would sell designs, and other intellectual property. That destroyed the aircraft industry, and helped destroy shipbuilding in the UK. That, and other government initiatives destroyed incentives for engineering as a profession. I came to realise that a peasant farmer ploughing a field behind an ox had more capital invested in him than my employer had invested in our Engineers.
May I recommend a video about where software and AI is going? “Denmark goes full on Linux”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSfqTq2HThI
I had a situation here that is disturbing. I bought a windows 10 laptop, took it to a tech company and had Windows 10 uninstalled, Linex installed, as well as Zoron and Libre Office. When I was trying to work with this new system, I was asked if I wanted it “Sync” and it listed sites I went to including Solari. The new machine is not connected to my system, so how did the new machine access my information? The only thing that I can think of, is that it connected by my fingerprints.
If anyone knows why this happened, I would appreciate knowing.
Seems europe is very busy getting USA software out. France also ditched windows and gone linux. Europe has lauched sovereign cloud, has a free euro-office gone live. I don’t recommend the channel I posted because I consider it european propaganda, but as an european I follow to know what they are up too. I think the europeans got a waking up jolt and are decoupling as fast as they can.
https://office.eu/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRy22w1K4A
At last digital sovereignty is in the conciousness.
Excellent. If USA had done that in 1994, I suspect that we would not be missing $21 trillion and thousands of government CPAs and IT managers would have far fewer control files.
Paul O’Neill delivered the commencement address in 2003, when I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh.
How wonderful. What did you learn from it?
Loved “meeting” Craig! Found his discussion about conversing with and instructing multiple AI platforms to hash out company dynamics Fascinating. Will look into his work on Substack. Always refreshes my mind and elevates my IQ to listen to Catherine and her guests.