“A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.”
–Lao Tzu (supposedly)
From my March 22 post on recent events at Columbia:
What’s not a question is that strategic planners who couldn’t see this coming do not deserve to be employed. In a just world, these overpaid, over-hyped, preening incompetents would be thrown unceremoniously out of their plush offices directly into the streets of Morningside Heights.
From The New York Times, less than a week later:
The interim president of Columbia University abruptly left her post Friday evening as the school confronted the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding and the Trump administration’s mounting skepticism about its leadership.
A good first step. But keep going!
Laozi did indeed say: “A journey of a thousand lǐ begins from where you stand” (Dàodéjing 64).
(A lǐ was about a third of a mile.)
Whether starting with a single step is the same idea as starting from where you stand is an interesting question.
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