Be Genuine. Be Remarkable. Be Worth Connecting

I Have Something To Say. I Know How To Do Something. I’m Doing It. If You Want Me To Do It With You, Raise Your Hand.

Traditional Corporations, Particularly Large-scale Service And Manufacturing Businesses Are Organized For Efficiency. Or Consistency. But Not Joy. Joy Comes From Surprise And Connection And Humanity And Transparency And New...if You Fear Special Requests, If You Staff With Cogs, If You Have To Put It All In A Manual, Then The Chances Of Amazing Someone Are Really Quite Low.

All Great Programmers Learn The Same Way. They Poke The Box. They Code Something And See What The Computer Does. They Change It And See What The Computer Does. They Repeat The Process Again And Again Until They Figure Out How The Box Works.

In Nearly Every Case, Trying To Lead Everyone Results In Leading No One In Particular.

Here's The Truth You Have To Wrestle With: The Reason That Art (writing, Engaging, Leading, All Of It) Is Valuable Is Precisely Why I Can't Tell You How To Do It. If There Were A Map, There'd Be No Art, Because Art Is The Act Of Navigating Without A Map. Don't You Hate That? I Love That There's No Map.