If you’ve never been to war, but are drafted into it, these are the stages, stages of warring — your travel on the arc:

1. fear of being injured or killed
2. fear of killing someone
3. unafraid of killing
4. indifferent to killing or being killed — no matter

several decades ago I introduced a simple stage model — a presentation in Silicon Valley — the sequence that occured, and must occur for a successful company —

1. people
2. product
3. process

the failure of the venture was because of item number 1 — the key is people. They make everything else. They fix everything else. They break everything else. Item 3, process, can cause trouble, but not failure. 1 is the first need for all phases. Get the people right, and your risk approaches zero; wrong, and it approaches certainty.

In normal use the eyes are rarely still for long.
Apart from small tremors, their most common
movement is the flick from one position to another
called a “saccade.” Saccades usually take less than
a twentieth of a second, but they happen several
times each second in reading and may be just as
frequent when a picture or an actual scene is being
inspected. This means that there is a new retinal
image every few hundred milliseconds. Ulric Neisser