Archive for October, 2011
October 25, 2011
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Here’s the latest: a tee shirt I designed for Babson College.
A well-known motif, the fist raised in defiance. Yes, all good entrepreneurship begins as some sort of defiant act. Exactly.
I’m also thinking of the idea that getting one’s degree from Babson as an act of defiance as well (as opposed to say, Harvard or Wharton).
Entrepreneurship is, of course, something inside you. If you are a budding entrepreneur, the issue isn’t whether you have that quality to begin with –you do. The question is how do you unleash it. Where do you begin?
And yes, the “Fist of Defiance” is a social object. “Cool, you feel that way too? So do I!”
Exactly.
[Essential backstory: The Social Object landing page]
October 18, 2011
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My good friend (and one of the brightest people I know), Brian Solis, has a new book out today: “The End of Business As Usual”.
As what has become a tradtion between us, I drew the cartoon above to celebrate the launch…
Solis believes, as many of us do, that it is time that the voice of the individual was acknowledged by organizations… and then he makes the case to show exactly why it matters, not only in principle, but in actuality.
The fact that this book launches the same week as the Occupy Wall Street crowd are grabbing global headlines I think, is more than just a happy coincidence, but a definite sign of the times we now live in. Black Swans meeting The Cluetrain. Exactly.
I hope you’ll check it out. Congratulations, Brian! Rock on.
October 6, 2011
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In Memoriam
[Print out the high-rez version from here etc.] [Buy the print here etc.]
I remember the first time I saw the TV Ad.
It changed my life.
It was the first commercial I’d ever seen in my life, that actually spoke to me, my true self, and not just to whatever short-term, trivial needs I had going on that day (i.e. like pretty much every single other commercial out there).
It was then I knew that I wasn’t just one of the crazy ones, but that it was also IMPERATIVE to actually be one of the crazy ones. That my life and soul demanded it.
It’s not what Steve Jobs created in his his brief but incandescent life– the computers, iPods, iPhones etc etc– that isn’t the big story.
And what we created with his products, that isn’t the big story, either.
The big story is what Steve helped us believe about ourselves. By putting his balls on the line, again and again, he made it easier for us to do the same.
And so we did.
Thank you, Steve. You will be missed. Of course you frickin’ will…
[UPDATE: Anita has already downloaded it, printed it out, put it up and posted the photo on the gallery website. Feel free to do the same. Very cool. Thanks, Anita!]
