Creating value through interaction is far more important than solving a consumer’s problem in thirty seconds. - Seth Godin

Poke the box How do computer programmers learn their art? Is there a step-by-step process that guarantees you’ll get good? 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. The box might be a computer or it might be a market or it might be a customer or it might be your boss. It’s a puzzle, one that can be solved in only one way — by poking.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.

If you’re not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it’s almost certain you’re not reaching your potential as a leader.