*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
SJ: "So, what's the biggest challenge you're facing right now?" Matt: (with not a moment's pause) Funding. SJ: (after a moment of disbelief) Funding? But...you're Kiva...Funding!?
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The problems we’re working to solve are enormous, intense and insistent. They demand speed, stamina, and collaboration. They demand we ride as a peloton.
Saw a tweet a few days ago describing social entrepreneurship as a double-edge sword; one edge entrepreneurship and the other the “social” element. I had to laugh—the idiom most commonly meaning risky, unsafe, something that “cuts both ways.” But there must have been a reason someone centuries ago decided to sharpen both edges of their sword.
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.
Why can't we have some kind of genuinely objective perspective? The answer's pretty simple: the genuinely objective observers don't CARE enough to do the careful analysis.
If relevance is really as simple as relation to the matter at hand, then the more matter I have "at hand" as a student; the more curious and engaged I am, the more connected I become to the people and processes of the world, the more there is to my LIFE, the more instruction I’ll find "relevant.”
