• Steve@communick.news
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    13 days ago

    That’s not what I heard.
    “We’ve got two weeks to go, and I’m very much grounded in the present. We will deal with election night and the days after as they come, and we have the resources and the expertise and the focus on that as well”

    She’s saying they have a bunch of capable people who’ll figure it out on the fly.
    That’s called improvising. Improvising is exactly the opposite of a plan. It’s what you do when you have no plan.

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      13 days ago

      It’s also called being ready for anything. It’s what you do when you aren’t entirely sure what the idiot on the other side is going to do.

      The world’s best swordsman isn’t afraid of the second best swordsman. He’s afraid of the world’s worst swordsman, cause he can never be sure what the idiot will do.

      Same principle.

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        13 days ago

        No it’s not.
        Being ready for anything is having a plan for anything.

        When you can’t know what your opponent might do, you can’t plan. That’s exactly why the best swordsman is afraid of the worst. He’s forced to go without a plan.

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          Being ready for anything doesn’t mean planing for everything, that’s impossible. They’ve likely planned for the obvious. They also have the resources ready to go to adapt to an unexpected situation.

          A swordsman is t ready to block every conceivable blow. They, instead, prepare to react. If it’s a known attack, they can fall back on a planned move. If it’s abnormal they can react by improvising, using the skills they already have.

          Oh, and the swordsman’s issue isn’t the lack of plan, improvisation is a key skill. The issue of the inability to read the opponent. It throws their instincts out. E.g. an attack looks like a faint, since it would leave the attack open to a lethal counter, even if it connected. An expert would never use that. A beginner might.