I have had an opportunity recently to be exposed to people I haven’t, in the course of things, had to deal with in quite some time. In truth it has taken me back to my therapy days and the long hours of discourse covering irrelevant events in a long distant past.
These people have bought back into striking perspective the slim beachhead we live on, with our awareness and understanding of social media and reminded me how quickly we can get surrounded and overpowered by ignorance and idiocy when we venture too far into the unexplored hinter land stretching before us.
We now live in a world of constant shifting change that far outstrips our ability to keep up. In the last ten years our world has splintered from a handful of stable structures to six billion little pieces, all struggling to make sense of their brief existence in the vast and empty halls of eternity.
It is with these eyes I see the stark contrast between following my parent’s dreams for me to practice law and living my own dream: working with the web. As a lawyer my role would be an unassailable expert offering the sound advice of a trained professional who knows everything about the inputs and outcomes of the system.
Working with the web is about understanding that I can’t know the outcomes for everything (read: anything) and appreciate I can be wrong, reserving my right to change my mind and encouraging others to do the same.
Being a lawyer is like being a parent, and I am beginning to realise my career choice has doomed me to perpetual mental childhood, learning and growing and making mistakes often.
It is an interesting space to work in and I truly believe it will keep us forever young.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Hi Sam,
This is really just to prove to you that I do in fact check out GlenGlen from time to time.
Hehe G
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Thanks for commenting G - we are helping Grant with his SEO and will be using Pellacor for the same purpose as soon as the index shakes out. Great to see you and look forward to having you up here again soon!
September 4th, 2008 at 10:54 am
“my career choice has doomed me to perpetual mental childhood, learning and growing and making mistakes often. ”
Very nicely put. And I would add, with the same sense of vulnerability and lack of control…
September 4th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Thanks Stephen. My background meant I really struggled for a long time with the lack of control aspect of it; and let’s not forget the importance of the community we share in this space too.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Hello Sam…. Just responding to your question, “Do You Really Want To Live Forever, Forever And Ever?”
Perhaps this is the question the CERN scientists have asked themselves before deciding to switch on the Large Hadron Collider today. Next month they plan to start using it despite the possibility of creating a Black Hole that could devour everything into oblivion. So I guess they have collectively decided on behalf of every living thing known in existence that the risk is worth it. Therefore if all known life in the Universe disappears at the flick of a switch it wont have a chance to live much longer at all.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is apparently the hugest, most expensive and technological invention of all mankind ever….. I have invented a much cheaper and less technical machine that will save the world and not destroy it…. it’s called the Lunatic Heads Collider (LHC)…. you put a bunch of insane scientists in a tube facing North and a bunch of insane scientists in a tube facing South and shoot them at each other as fast as is physically possibly and study the impacts as their heads smash into each other at twice the speed of sound…. you save the world AND 12 billion dollars….. (although I guess that has already been spent, but better than throwing good money after bad into a Black Hole as it were….)
The resultant shape produced from this collision could become the new global symbol of sanity conquering insanity….
Whilst the scientists have named their invention The Large Hadron Collider, I would like my new invention to be known simply as Hadron….. because in the future people will say “Had Ron not invented the Hadron we would all now be squashed in a space so dense, dark and overwhelmingly horrific that neither Satan nor God could touch our souls ever again…..”
Trust all is well in your world !! Very interesting site you have here
Ron
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Yo Sam,
very well written bro, that post had a great Seth Godin feel to it.
Are you getting into SEO for yourself or is it part of your work? What resources do you rate?