Take the win
It is coming to the end of the year.
Time to reflect, and perhaps, take some stock. In our reflection, most of us will celebrate and maintain the status quo (or even scale-up, extrapolate) successes. We will focus directional changes on what we consider to be failures. Those who were successful in making money in 2023, will want to make even more money in 2024. Doctors will do even more doctoring: the more successfully they were in curing diseases in 2023, the more they expect to cure in 2024 (ironically). Parents will feel the urge to mother their adult progeny.
When is it enough? When is it time to take the win?
Most of us will not even be aware that there is a win to be taken. Success in a domain and that domain becomes part of our identity. We identify ourselves by our successes. We are constantly becoming without end.
Interestingly, it is infinitely easier for a person to take a win than for an institution. Institutions do not retire themselves once their job is done. These Zombies continue to walk among us. Missions creep.
This problem of institutional zombiism, vampire-ism, and indeed corruption, has been with us ever since we became human. It is a curiosity to me how this zombiism has been dealt with since our earliest human civilization. My conjecture is that the answer has to do with market system.
