Pictures and principles
There are days when it all feels aaaaaagggghhhh! When you’ve had enough of missed deadlines, lack of commitment, politicking, risk aversion, vested interests, unwieldy or unwilling…
Some of us are happy with concepts. We like models and ideas and what ifs, we love thinking about and working from first principles, digging footings, laying foundations and building from the ground up. We like the process as much as the output.
Some of us work better with reality. We like to get out hands dirty doing the actual work, we like playing with clay instead of concepts, we prefer the end game to the rule book.
In any creative pursuit where you need space bigger than a phone box, you need to find room for both kinds of happy. Start with principles, jump to reality, drag the two ends towards the process. Start with a question about the end game, double back to mine for principles, drag the two ends towards the process.
Skippy strategy: The most robust project – a big whiteboard, filled with pictures and principles.
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The calendar turns. You breathe in, you breathe out. The to do list is crunched. You wrestle