for most companies, right now, because of the way their processes are-because of how afraid they are of so many things-the innovation that they need will probably not be authorized. I like to keep this quote from Stephen Gates - the former Head Design Evangelist at InVision - on hand during all ideation meetings: What made this so rewarding is the fact that we did not ask for permission to build this feature and, it was a feature that we almost-certainly would not have been allowed to build had we asked for permission. The most frustrating part of all of this is that he just assumed that the line-in-question could not possibly be the issue so, he kept debugging the lines around it without addressing the actual problem.īen's Triumph (that's me) - A co-worker and I, Jackie Ewald, were recently called-out as the embodiment of "customer empathy" at InVision because we built a custom feature for one of our clients. And, while he eventually reduced it quite a bit (mostly by moving to Alpine Linux), he wasted far too much time on what turned out to be a simple little typo in his make file. Ben Nadel (that's me) → Website, Twitter, LinkedInĪdam's Failure - he spent many person-hours trying to reduce the size of a Docker container image.Adam Tuttle → Website, Twitter, LinkedIn.But, the one thing we think we can all agree on: don't commit to work estimates that you don't believe in! Doing so will only make you your own worst enemy. What becomes very clear is that the quote means different things to different people. The conversation examined the "do what you love" concept from a variety of different levels, with each host coming at it from a different angle. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. We are all meant to shine, as children do. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. Your playing small does not serve the world. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Matthew 7:13īringing a different sort of scripture to the conversation, I shares one of my favorite poems, "Our Deepest Fear": In fact, as Tim illustrates with some scripture, the challenge and hardship of work can be what makes it lovable and fulfilling:Įnter in by the narrow gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
Not everyone has this opportunity and, even when we do, loving your job doesn't always make it feel any less like work. This week, the crew and I talk about the privilege of being able to choose work that we truly enjoy. And, to address the flip-side of that coin, Mingo Hagen suggested that we talk about the phrase, "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life." This is a significantly more optimistic view on the human experience but, does it hold up to scrutiny? A friend of mine once said, "If you hate your job, you'll spend 5-7ths of your life waiting for the weekend." This is a dark way to think about existence.
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