The board of directors thing is something I wish everyone knew like I do.
I think people have a "sense" for it, but don't understand it enough. I also think that many people don't really understand when I say that the metric is shareholder wealth. They get it from the financial perspective, but don't follow the path to what practical implications it has.
I think you are mired in global trends which take too long to change course and the individual has a fart in a windstorm of a chance of changing anything.
I am most definitely mired in the longer term, I get that people want to focus short, but ultimately it is going to cost everyone more, and everyone to come, possibly everything. More and more I get the sense that I m not made for this world as it is. I could ignore it, but it would be active ignorance. Is that the kind of person I am, or want to be? I don't think so. Writing about the bigger things here, helps me focus my daily activities more on what matters to me, and those I care ab out. But, I am still not acting for short-term satisfaction with what I do.
I am definitely in a losing game and everyone will say "I told you so" while we are all aboard the same sinking ship.
Yah man we are alike. I try and keep sane by considering it then shutting it off to concentrate on that which I can control a little more.