It’s easy enough to come up with an idea. Fleshing it out into a fully fledged vision is a fair amount more work. Turning it into reality is more work than the majority would take on. But if you need to lead a team to make that vision happen… A team that has to be passionate and creative if they are to pull it off… If you’re trying to build a Disney World…

Life is full of habits. It’s full of conventions. And traditions. People act how they act because that’s how they acted yesterday. Companies act like other companies because it is easier just to copy one another.

Which is probably a good thing. It holds everything together in a predictable pattern.

But some people get bored with that. They see a way to do things better. So they set to work.

And then the world’s habits gang up on them and they lose sight of what they originally intended. Sometimes they do good anyway.

Good.

Heh.

Visions should change of course; being too rigid leads to failure. But they should change for good reasons. Because better ideas replace them or because the laws of reality were not quite understood. But not because it was too hard.

The world is charming like that. It likes to push you towards good enough.

Screw that charm.

It’s never good enough.

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