commentary: “it’s a good thing” response to jeff pulver Baseball, Startups and Always Wanting to Believe
commentary: “it’s a good thing” response to jeff pulver Baseball, Startups and Always Wanting to Believe
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hmmm cutting loses and magical thinking and baseball as a religious metaphor and startups have all in common - magical thinking which is also a mental diagnosis that i think is our shared common dis-ease that makes life worth liiving
in cutting our loses we have the knowledge that at least we believed in the impossible dream and sometimes in life its time to let go of the dream as we dreamt it that turned into an impossible dream…. and sometimes we have to move on to another dream another startup another season another reason another day another field to play in
coincidentally the METS lost the first game they played in shea stadium and also the last game and i think the problem is we have become stranger to ourselves and baseball seems also to hold a very intersting human relationship since most of the people who are the fans of baseball tend to be white folks and most of the players are latins so its a very interesting relationship of crossing over the racial divide as my friend james kusel just said ”its a good thing” not only do people share this racial divide but in queens where james lives you will see all sorts of people - including orthodox jews wearing METS shirts with the names of the spanish players on them - its a good thing he says to see people cheering on a team and its members even though they have their own racial issues out of the stadium - food for thought - ”it’s a good thing”
well that some food for the imagination - and i am sure the god of social media would have something to say if we could only find him and if he would stand up and reveal himself - anyway my point here is that its not technology that changes the world it’s the way people use it that revolutionized the future and that social media is unique in that it has no gods no leaders and most of all not driven by our traditional model of top down management by fear that we keep repeating since before forever and recorded time and why it just might save us from our leaders and ourselves too - so what will the future say about us i ask myself in you