Putt Putt

Instead of getting a conference room for the business meeting with the people you’re considering working with or the company you’re thinking of signing with…go putt putt golfing.

Not real golfing. Putt putt.

You’ll learn more and notice more and have different questions and responses come to mind.

And both the conference room and the mini golf take about forty five minutes.

Putt putt is suppose to be fun. So some people will have fun with it. The others, who aren’t good at having fun, you’ll get to see how the respond when faced with something they’re not good at.

And you might see someone drop a popsicle, or a grandma get a hole in one, or teenagers sneak their friend onto the course. Those shared experiences are more powerful than a shared experience of walking to the elevator together.

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I Thought You Might Like This

It’s a scary thing to say. Whatever ‘this’ is says a lot about your taste and what you think the other person’s taste is. Taste is tied to values and values to identity.

The exchange is a snapshot of your identity, the other person’s identity and the identity of the relationship.

So it’s scary to give someone something they didn’t ask for because there’s a lot at stake. It’s much easier and safer to stick to something they’ve asked for.

But taking the bigger leap is what grows us together.

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The Problem Paying Bills

For instance…

When you go through heartbreak you write the heartbreak songs and those songs become the big songs…so it’s enticing to keep the heartbreak going…because the problem is the thing paying the bills.

The heartbreak is the gasoline, the tension to push off from, the rally point.

So if the problem goes away or gets resolved, what would be left to go on?

If you want to change what type of fuel you run on…you can. And maybe you should.

If the problem is paying the bills, it might be best to solve the problem even if it means you’ll have a problem paying bills for a while.

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Going Home Early

The goal isn’t to get to go home early.

The goal is when you get to go home early, to want to be home...and to want to go back.

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About The Same Time

I’m still surprised at the idea that by the next time you see your friends, they’ve probably seen a lot of the same videos and articles as you.

It’s almost impossible to get people to consume media at the exact same time but fairly normal for people to consume the same media at ABOUT the same time.

In the grand scheme of technology and culture, ‘about the same time’ might be an even bigger feat than ‘the same time’.

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Sports Reruns

Watching a rerun of any sports game is really interesting. You already know the outcome…but the players and the people in attendance don’t.

The people who were there didn’t know the outcome are carrying huge tension and anxiety. But you just get to enjoy it because you already know how it ends.

The tension is only worth the trouble as a means of entertainment (the fans)…or if the tension can effect the outcome for the better (the players).

Taking it out of the metaphor and putting into real life…

The trap is when we have the tension but can’t effect the outcome and in no way is it entertaining but we decide to keep it on our shoulders anyway.

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