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July 15, 2010

dying is no way to live

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[A little Blue Mons­ter “cube gre­nade” I desig­ned for my old buddy over at Mic­ro­soft, Steve Clay­ton.]

As I’ve said many times before, the best thing about being a blog­ger is the peo­ple you get to meet.

Case in Point: White Box Edi­bles nomi­na­ted them­sel­ves for the Cube Gre­nade com­pe­ti­tion I’ve currently got going on.

“A medi­cal mari­juana edi­bles com­pany in sunny Boul­der, Colorado”?

Wha­te­ver your views on mari­juana (I’ve always been fairly indif­fe­rent to it), I kinda dig the sheer chutz­pah of  the enter­prise, don’t you?

Or this one:

Little shop of happiness

This could make a movie.

Hun­gary, 2006. A reti­red teacher of French and Ita­lian (Diane Kea­ton) and a reti­red ear-nose-and-throat spe­cia­list (Meryl Streep) open a pastry shop. They can’t afford the rent anywhere in the city, so they open it in a small town (Solymár), beside the highway.

It’s not your typi­cal pastry shop, however…

Peo­ple quit their jobs to start like crazy-ass busi­nes­ses like these every day. Why? Sure, they want the inde­pen­dence and the fee­ling of con­trol over their own des­ti­nies and all that, but…

I believe one of the big­gest dri­ves is:

They want to be able to tell a good story.

We all want to hear a good story about the world, that we can buy into. And we also want to create equally good sto­ries of our own to tell. This capa­city to create, absorb and share metaphors is what sepa­ra­tes us from all the other animals.

And if we can’t do that; if we don’t have these sto­ries that we can believe in [our own AND other people’s] something inside us starts fee­ling like it’s dying…

And dying, as you know, is no way to live.

[Sub­mit your own cube gre­nade story here etc.]

Tags: Blue Monster, Cube Grenades, Little Shop os Happiness, Marijuana, Microsoft, Steve Clayton

3 Responses to “dying is no way to live”

1. Kevin says:

   July 16, 2010 at 3:26 PM

   Inte­res­ting Hugh. Being that I seen both sides of the fence I know what it is like to slowly die. Keep the pas­sion and keep living.

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2. Karol Stilger says:

   July 19, 2010 at 2:27 AM

   Don’t let Blue Mons­ter to die!

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3. Tom Meigs says:

   July 21, 2010 at 3:14 PM

   Right on, Hugh!

   “They want to be able to tell a good story.” I think you’ve sin­gled out one of the main dri­vers for seve­ral kinds of choices.

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