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“it is the time you
have wasted for
your rose that
makes your rose
so important”
− Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

MECHANICS beat leadership, talent, and teamwork when it
comes to trading an organization into strength, endurance
and resilience.
It’s the I N V I S I B L E ALGORITHM that connects people to their
promises. And it’s in plain sight if you know how to look.

We
fear
the
things
–
and
people
–
that
we
do
not
understand
far
more
than
the
things
we
do,
even
if
the
la:er
are
much
more
risky.
For
this
reason,
it's
not
surprising
that
people
fear
technology.
Its
newness
is
confusing
and
no
one's
quite
certain
what
to
do
with
the
promises
it
offers.

Almost everybody has Their Thing for
which they have high resolution
appreciation.
The problem is when we want and
expect everyone in our domain to have
the same exact Thing.

CLARITY OF VISION,
what you've been
looking for from the
wrong angle and not
seeing at all... you
labor, you sweat to SEE
what you could be
seeing from that other
perspective.

Architecture and building
is about HOW you get
around the obstacles that
are presented to you.
That sometimes
determines how successful
you'll be: How good are
you at going around
obstacles?

Nowadays, more than any
other time, people are eager
for inspired ideas that stand
out and are worth believing in.
There’s so much disingenuous
noise in our culture than when
an idea is presented with
SINCERITY and passion, it stands
out and resonates.

The reviews were terrible.
They didn't
understand what we
were doing. They gave
the fourth album a one
paragraph review.
There's a lot of
material on that: Black
Dog, When the Levy
Breaks, Stairway to
Heaven... one paragraph.
They didn't have a
clue of what was going
on. I just didn't bother
reading the papers from
that point on.

We all think that an exception is going to be made
in our case and we're going to live forever. Being
a human is actually arriving at the understanding
that that's not going to be. STORY is there to
remind us that it's just OK.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can
learn and understand, without having experienced.
They can THINK themselves into other people’s places.

Remain TRUE to yourself
and your philosophy.
Changing in the face of
adversity will in fact
diminish your credibility
with your customers.
[…] you can’t become
credible overnight just on
the basis of huge
advertising campaigns.
[…] To create something
exceptional, your mindset
must be relentlessly
focused on the smallest
detail.

This is an old problem. I suppose it comes from
people wanting to be correct and not trusting
themselves, fearing they’ll seem like uneducated
country bumpkins in his day, if they told what they
saw and how it struck them. I don’t remember ever
being forced to wear those sorts of blinders when I
was a child. Children do report what they SEE.

The complexity of the problems we
face is growing bigger and bigger.
And our ability to solve problems is
changing... We have 40 watts of
energy to work with and what we
really respond to is that difference
in that other person...
We
can
be
selec*vely
strange
to
other
people...
Let's reach out to
the STRANGE… When we are
together, creativity goes up.

Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the
temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of
expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations
if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running
out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle
your inner control freak.

I think I've done okay. I take
responsibility for my successes as
well as my failures. But when I
look at my professional mistakes,
I'm always left with the feeling
that maybe I should have done
MORE.

The things that you BUILD
in the next decade are
going to cost people, likely
millions of people, maybe
a billion people depending
on the networks where
you hitch your respective
wagons, they are going to
cost a lot of people a lot of
time.

In the end, the biggest risk is
not to take any risks at all. In
science we find that:
• The opposite of a deep
TRUTH can also be true:
waves can also be particles,
and energy is another form
of matter; two mutually
exclusive things can be part
of the same larger reality
• Every action has a reaction
• Everything is CONNECTED
• Things look different in
different reference frames
• Rules change in unfamiliar
terrain, often in
counterintuitive ways

Image source: Lorenzo Cuppini