It’s tempting to want to get picked. After all, it’s a great feeling as someone is articulating their desire for you, your skills, your talents, your value. I’m not above this desire. Who doesn’t want to be chosen? But at the end of the day, the best thing we can […]
Month: September 2021
Bigger
When we think of making a project bigger, I often think of scale – more customers, more impact, more media, more sales, more money. While there’s nothing wrong with scale, if you look at those thoughts, it’s obvious that I’m thinking about how it could be bigger for me. I […]
The Privilege of Looking Away
It’s often somewhat uncomfortable to come to terms with privilege, especially if there are ways that you’re underprivileged. So you might want to look away from something that makes you feel uncomfortable, like poverty in India, or the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, or the femicide of a young, white woman […]
Talking Down the Impostor
When doing something new, difficult, and/or very public, it’s easy to get discouraged. To let the voice saying “You’re not enough” convince you that it’s true. To let the fear talk you into playing it safe. To hide. To keep that magic that’s inside you locked away. Or, you can […]
Minimum Viable Project
You might have big dreams about how something is going to get created, or implemented, or launched. You might also have very real constraints that will prevent that optimal ideal from coming into reality – at least at the very start. Instead of being discouraged, what’s the minimum viable version […]
Shipping Expectations
My wife was told her package was late, and she was pleasantly surprised when it came a few days prior to when she was expecting it. It was still later than initially planned, but quicker than her most recent expectations. I ordered something online and was told due to warehouse […]
Limits to the Hiring Process
When reviewing candidates for a job position that got an overwhelming amount of applications, I realized how many rad people there are in the world. It makes me a bit sad that there’s only one position for so many amazing individuals, and this process has also helped me realize there […]
Experts
There are experts who have spent years studying, researching, and devoting a majority of their lives to a certain subject. We often assume these are formally (ie. university) educated people, and a lot of the time, they are. Virologists, rocket scientists, theoretical physicists, brain surgeons – these are all experts […]
Doing Things Differently
There’s a cost to doing things differently, as by definition, you’re diverging from the norm.People aren’t hesitant around change and uncertainty, and the more innovative and radical you are, the most hesitancy there will be. But what might be the opportunity cost of doing things the same way as you’ve […]
Launching Like a Slug
Our society tends to think about launching as some massive event. There are tons of entrepreneurial products around the idea of organizing massive events to gain critical mass. There’s visions of exploding out onto the scene, fully formed. Think BTS performing on a stage around a live birth going on […]