*Note: I'm not currently accepting freelance gigs--building Purpose Portfolio has me pretty much at capacity :) Thanks for your interest, and feel free to drop me a line if I can help find the right designer for your project. `sj
All in Startups
They tell you that it always takes twice as long and costs twice as much as you think it will. They’re wrong. So far I’m thinking it’s more like 3-5 times as long.
So often in life, discomfort is the result of poorly managed expectations. It’s amazing the levels of “discomfort” we can adapt to if we expect it, and the performance we have the capacity to achieve through it is even more exciting.
YouTube videos hockeystick. Kudzu hockeysticks. Last summer, gas prices hockey...stuck? Female hormone levels hockeystick about once a month. The US economy is definitely not hockeysticking. You get the picture...
We feel vulnerable exposing the deeper reasons for our opinions/desires/edicts, but choosing to do so anyway creates space, loosens things up, allows creativity to wiggle into the loopholes and create compromise and even mutual benefit in situations that otherwise might end up in "impasse."
In the end, it turns out that McKensie and almost exactly split the difference between the next best case for each of us. Perfect solution, right? Best of both worlds for both of us, right? So, why am I still trying to convince myself?
Not sure if one can technically recant something that's never been formally stated, but I'm doing it. I hereby recant at least 40% of the malicious thoughts, derisive glances and scoffing mutters I've flicked at the retreating figures of unsuspecting consultants during my (still almost laughably short) sojourn in the corporate world.
It seems in the eyes of these individuals, the Webster’s entry for “freelancer" looks something like this: free.lanc.er ['frE-"lan(t)-s&r] noun : a quasi professional whose sub-par portfolio and mediocre intelligence preclude gainful, let alone enviable employment.
