Culture

Conflict holds attention less than a threat from the other side does. The business did not invent that pull; it counts it, and counting makes it bigger.

Admitting a mistake earns respect when it gives other people something to correct. Aviation wrote that into its rules.

Batman has been a pulp detective, a children's hero with a teenage partner, a camp comedian on 1960s television, a gothic avenger, an aging vigilante in Frank Miller's 1986 comic, and the hero of many films in between.

"This was a catastrophic failure on my part. I destroyed months of work in seconds."

The office was partly a machine for accidents, like the unplanned question or the fix you overhear. Remote work kept the job and dropped many of the accidents, and the people who lose most are the ones still learning.

Your attention is not a commons. It is yours. What a public pays attention to together is a different resource, and it behaves very much like one.