The Future Past

The Past is not the warranty of the Future

Failure is a better predictor than success.

Failure is always more likely than success.

To survive, be less certain early. To thrive, take risks while you are strong.

A puzzle from Dalat: take less ammo up the dangerous hills, but do send your best marksman. New leaders make the mistake of taking too much ammunition. Your advantage is these hills aren’t deadly.

Try more than you think your team can do. Spend much less than you think you should.

Joe Boma

Another post on the plumbers of 08. Not because I’m conservative, in fact I am as far from conservative as anyone you will never know. This is because I feel that Obama missed a great opportunity in Toledo. If Senator Obama had been organized the way a hungry attorney, or an active community outreach worker is, then he would have known the tells, had specifics about what Joe could do to achieve his dream, irrespective of the “tax policy” issue. How is the business organized? Not treat this as a debate, but as a request. Too public? Then get his contact info and have someone from SCORE or a volunteer business lawyer contact him with the intention of helping Joe buy or build. Joe clearly isn’t knowledgeable enough about business to do this on his own. The only thing he has become is another Mythic Figure. We already know that Joe had grandiose expectations of his chances. Too bad that so much of the circus is occupied by the side show.