I came across another great idea from James Clear. If you don’t know who this is you can buy his book Atomic Habits here. His idea is this: “The world rewards you for value provided, not time spent.” I needed this. It reminds me to ship. To stop trying to make something perfect and just get it out there. The minimum viable product.
I have been working on this blog post for many weeks now. And I am not doing anyone any good by continually working on it. So I’m going to shave it down to it’s constituent parts and just post it.
The Asocial Society
We are moving toward an asocial society. A society whose people rely on companies more than people.
I picture a guy who never leaves his house. He relies one hundred percent on companies to cover all his needs. With his phone he uses Netflix for entertainment. Porn for sexual self-gratification. He does freelance work for income. He relies on grub hub to deliver him food. He relies on forums and social media to feel informed and heard. Is this where the world is going?
Schools now serve the important role of teaching people to interact with other people. Teaching our youth that the answers are found in the collaborative efforts. Not on Google.
The convenience and availability of technology has turned us into a culture of the lone wolf. Why do we need a tribe anymore when I could harness the power of the world from the palm of my hand?
Has our technology given people a feeling of control and superiority and power that pushes them away from other people? Are we becoming a culture of individuals?
We can be so consumed with the idea of the individual we lose track of what it really takes to survive. The team.
I have found that improv is an excellent way to socialize people. And especially kids. Improv teaches listening, collaboration and team building.
I believe a true leader is someone who needs people. And understands that people are the most important part of any successful company. It’s not the technology. It’s not the individual star.
It’s the vulnerability and the collective efforts of the people who make a team work. And companies are absolutely a team. Let’s call them teams instead of companies.
We have this idea about the owner. The founder. The man or woman at the top. The captain of the ship. But a ship doesn’t go because of the captain. The ship goes because of the crew. The captain has a job just like the crew has a job. Both the captain and the crew have an equal part in making the ship go where it needs to go.
Long ago, what was needed was a deep understanding of nature, and how to use nature to survive. People banded together to share skills and resources. Collaboration was most likely the first “people skill” people needed to learn.
Now more than ever it’s important to understand people. One way to understand people is to understand nature. Because the two are the same. We are animals just like the other animals. We evolved to live in tandem with nature. We live with the seasons. We live with day and night. We evolved to live with nature. Not against it. To understand the world, understand people.
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