Incredible story. I've heard and seen this before, but never in this level of detail. What was done to the Poles over the centuries is something that no people should ever experience. I wish them well in their goal of fortifying their country against future aggression from the east and hope that their allies to the west stay true to our shared values.
You can also notice the territory around Białystok (north-eastern part), than in 19th century was direct part of Russian Empire, not Congress Poland. Białystok was kind of Russian Hong-Kong - the gateway between Poland and Russia where all trade was going (esp. textiles) and a lot of Polish companies created outpost to avoid duties. And it's also still visible on some maps.
I voted on Professional storytelling because to me it's less buzzy-wordy than "business storytelling". I understand the power of keeping it very short but I played around with longer (probably too long) versions.
How to tell your professional story - A course on conveying your ideas and thinking in business
Also - will the course be full-time or when do you plan the lectures to take place? Asking since I am employed full time and need to plan accordingly :)
Tomas, keep in mind that this time the opposition to the PIS didn't participate as only one coalition. So the map of the results is actually quite similar to the last one if you just plot the % that the more conservative parties received. The divide in Poland is quite similar to the one in Germany, nad it'll take at least some generations more to smoth the divide.
Getting the (great) Zanclean megaflood video in the middle of the (great) article about Poland is unfair to each content! They rob each other attention
on the zanclean flood - very cool geographic analysis… but if you go to something like Catching Fire by Wrangham - six million years ago was still roughly one million years before what became modern humans branched from chimps probably as a result of eating more meat or some differential diet… and it wasn’t until about 1.5 to 2.0 million years ago that the predecessor of homo habilis seems to have mastered fire and come down from the trees and started cooking… so the zanclean flood is several million years too early to be part of human cultural memory.
the analysis is still excellent outside of the pseudo-scientific suggestion that it could be the source of flood stories. if you’ve been in any sort of a flood - it is horrific enough to understand why flood stories would exist everywhere as a result of normal weather patterns…. or weather patterns since the trauma of Katrina in New Orleans or the recent Pakistan floods or the Mississippi floods that the Neville brothers sung about in gospel choirs…
Just like your work a lot and found it odd to throw in the idea that somehow a six million year old flood could be in modern cultural memory when we were still 4 million years away from coming down from the trees and beginning to develop smaller guts and bigger brains and the language and art and cultural memory and ability to collaborate in large groups which came with that larger brain and reallocation of basal metabolic energy…
”Business Storytelling” seems most accurate but also most dry. Your posts have great titles like this one! I found the title intriguing. Dale Carnegie had a good book title with “how to Win friends and influence people” which kind of sounds like what you’re aiming at. I can’t think of a better title, but just wanted to let you know that I believe that you can find one!
What happened when millions of people were moved out of one area and into another? Did the people move voluntarily, or were they forced to (and how was that done)? Did they have to buy the homes from the former owners, who had gone to another country, or did they just walk into them? Was there any compensation provided to those who were displaced? The logistics are hard to fathom.
i particularly appreciate how it feels like you think in terms of processes - which is how O believe the world works, but we are all taught to think in terms of things or individual events, and most people and analyses stop there…. but the things and events are all just artifacts of ongoing processes at a point in time… the simplest instance of this is a bank account balance - which seems to be what a bank account is or what’s in the account, but the account is actually a ledger of transactions and the balance is just the residual of the transactions at a point in time…
the world is cool when you do the work to see how, in dan nicholsons terms, everything flows…
appreciate how you help us see parts of those flows in your posts.
apologize that i got excited and jumped ahead of myself. it’s a complement to how you had me
Incredible story. I've heard and seen this before, but never in this level of detail. What was done to the Poles over the centuries is something that no people should ever experience. I wish them well in their goal of fortifying their country against future aggression from the east and hope that their allies to the west stay true to our shared values.
You can also notice the territory around Białystok (north-eastern part), than in 19th century was direct part of Russian Empire, not Congress Poland. Białystok was kind of Russian Hong-Kong - the gateway between Poland and Russia where all trade was going (esp. textiles) and a lot of Polish companies created outpost to avoid duties. And it's also still visible on some maps.
I voted on Professional storytelling because to me it's less buzzy-wordy than "business storytelling". I understand the power of keeping it very short but I played around with longer (probably too long) versions.
How to tell your professional story - A course on conveying your ideas and thinking in business
Also - will the course be full-time or when do you plan the lectures to take place? Asking since I am employed full time and need to plan accordingly :)
Tomas, keep in mind that this time the opposition to the PIS didn't participate as only one coalition. So the map of the results is actually quite similar to the last one if you just plot the % that the more conservative parties received. The divide in Poland is quite similar to the one in Germany, nad it'll take at least some generations more to smoth the divide.
Getting the (great) Zanclean megaflood video in the middle of the (great) article about Poland is unfair to each content! They rob each other attention
I was about to suggest, "How to Tell Stories and Influence People", but Daniel beat me to it...
The first time I came across this persistent border was in an article on Strange Maps almost 15 years ago ( https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/348-an-imperial-palimpsest-on-polands-electoral-map/ ). I did some digging at the time and got impressed with the differences, but I didn't get as far as you got in this article.
Amazing work!
on the zanclean flood - very cool geographic analysis… but if you go to something like Catching Fire by Wrangham - six million years ago was still roughly one million years before what became modern humans branched from chimps probably as a result of eating more meat or some differential diet… and it wasn’t until about 1.5 to 2.0 million years ago that the predecessor of homo habilis seems to have mastered fire and come down from the trees and started cooking… so the zanclean flood is several million years too early to be part of human cultural memory.
the analysis is still excellent outside of the pseudo-scientific suggestion that it could be the source of flood stories. if you’ve been in any sort of a flood - it is horrific enough to understand why flood stories would exist everywhere as a result of normal weather patterns…. or weather patterns since the trauma of Katrina in New Orleans or the recent Pakistan floods or the Mississippi floods that the Neville brothers sung about in gospel choirs…
Just like your work a lot and found it odd to throw in the idea that somehow a six million year old flood could be in modern cultural memory when we were still 4 million years away from coming down from the trees and beginning to develop smaller guts and bigger brains and the language and art and cultural memory and ability to collaborate in large groups which came with that larger brain and reallocation of basal metabolic energy…
thx!
”Business Storytelling” seems most accurate but also most dry. Your posts have great titles like this one! I found the title intriguing. Dale Carnegie had a good book title with “how to Win friends and influence people” which kind of sounds like what you’re aiming at. I can’t think of a better title, but just wanted to let you know that I believe that you can find one!
Wow, just wow. What a story, so captivating! Thanks!
The videos are amazing!!
This was a great read🔥Thanks Tomas! 🌟
What happened when millions of people were moved out of one area and into another? Did the people move voluntarily, or were they forced to (and how was that done)? Did they have to buy the homes from the former owners, who had gone to another country, or did they just walk into them? Was there any compensation provided to those who were displaced? The logistics are hard to fathom.
😂👍🙏 i got to that later.
genuinely enjoy your work!
i particularly appreciate how it feels like you think in terms of processes - which is how O believe the world works, but we are all taught to think in terms of things or individual events, and most people and analyses stop there…. but the things and events are all just artifacts of ongoing processes at a point in time… the simplest instance of this is a bank account balance - which seems to be what a bank account is or what’s in the account, but the account is actually a ledger of transactions and the balance is just the residual of the transactions at a point in time…
the world is cool when you do the work to see how, in dan nicholsons terms, everything flows…
appreciate how you help us see parts of those flows in your posts.
apologize that i got excited and jumped ahead of myself. it’s a complement to how you had me
fully engaged with the video:..;)
thank you.
Nice one, what a history the Poles have seen and endured .
Fantastic article, amazing info, thanks!
Zanclean Flood video was fantastic too.