"Wishful thinking rather than accurate self-assessment"

Self-awareness is not at scale, and it might be regressing.

This quote, which I borrowed from this article, is a good descriptor of humanity in some respects. The article is about "talent management," i.e. recruiting and sourcing and HR stuff. Paradoxically, those types of things are massively important to people because the job you have often determines other aspects of your life. But no one really cares about …