Tag: engage

Anything is entertainment

I used to love blog posts. When I woke up I sat  in front of the computer,  consuming the latest on Techcrunch or Gizmodo. I thought that information, and information alone was power; those blog posts were keeping me up to date on what was happening in the world of technology.

Fortunately, I woke up and realized a few things

• Blog posts don’t give any rigor, are usually wrong, and lead to shallow conversations.
• Since I didn’t do anything with that time, it was just entertainment anyway.

I realized that reading blog posts is in the same league as wrestling and daytime TV, except they didn’t nail the emotion part as well (those two types of programs are masters of that side of story telling).

Learning how to do starts with doing

I don’t know how I missed that in class, but I finally recognized that action turns knowledge into something tangible, something real.  It’s why I started taking this blog seriously. Instead of thinking about a platform for me to sell things, I understood that this place has real power in forcing me to scratch down ideas and deal with chewing through them. The value isn’t in the clicks, but the rigor that I have to do when I write through them.

That ended up being just the tip of the iceberg. I learned that writing through these ideas is fun, and they test me to try to understand and put them together, but ultimately, I need to take the next step… and commit.

Committing to execution is the goal.

Go do. That’s the point of this post. There is a wide chasm between people who just say they want to do it, those who go through the intellectual rigor, and those who actually execute. Anyone who does that has no choice but to become effective because operating comes with lessons, especially in failure.  So, whatever you want to do, please, go and do.