Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Steven Savage You're busy. You've got a lot to do and you're trying to get it done. You're running at full speed. You tell people you're busy a lot – and you'd tell them more, but you're so busy you can only tell them so much.
So, you're running towards something. But have you asked yourself if you're running to the future – or just running away?
Know what I think we need more of in media?
Shows like Tremors.
You may remember that series – based on the series of deliberate-B-monster-movies-with-heart, it ran on Sci-Fi channel before their name change. It was an episodic series with some continuing arcs about the people living in a small town that happened to be infested with odd creatures, and their lives and stories dealing with them. It was charming, funny, and quite clever.
It was also a great model of synergy that I think more companies, authors, and media people need to look at.
Do you have someone you look to and say "I don't want to be like that?"
If you do that, and my guess is most people do, you're in danger of trapping yourself.
Negative Role Models, as I call them, are insidious traps – and easy ones to fall into. How many of us could easily list mistakes we don't want to make we've seen others make, or sadly, people who embody what we don't want to be? How many of us have actually learned good lessons by learning from other people's mistakes.