I saw this in a random LinkedIn post (which seems to have become a common source of entries for my commonplace book). A surface reading of this could be something along the lines of, "Don't rest on your laurels," but I think it goes deeper than that. It reflects an understanding that our work, whatever it is, is never complete, a drive to keep going until the very end. There is always something around the next corner, over the next hill. So don't stop now.

I was curious about the phrase, so did a quick search on LinkedIn and found several instances of it, most of them from 6 months or more in the past. Interestingly, the post in which I saw the phrase does not appear in the search results. The LinkedIn algorithms are really weird.

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Something that was, oddly, in the search results was a mention and discussion of Royce Mann's video, "White Boy Privilege". I had the pleasure of meeting Royce and hearing him present and discuss the poem at the 2018 Business Innovation Factory. It's one of those things that leaves a lasting impression. Not the least because he was only 14 years old when he first put it out into the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I4N8Dw5rOw

(fwiw, all of the videos from BIF are worth your time)

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I had the opportunity, the immense pleasure, of attending BIF 2018 due to the generosity of BIF's director, Saul Kaplan, and the School of the Possible's Dave Gray. Dave had started forming the SotP earlier in the year and I, fortunate enough to live in the same city as he, participated in several of his early conversations about what shape the School might take. Saul graciously comped BIF 2018 tickets to those of us participating in the School; BIF was all about possibility.

And speaking of the School of the Possible, you are cordially invited to attend the 2025 Spring Open House Exhibition, to show you what we’ve been working on. If you’re curious about who we are and what we’ve been up to this year, this is a great opportunity to spend some time with us. This is not a presentation or webinar so much as a party. We will show our work, but will also be just hanging out and having fun together.  For details and to RSVP, head on over to https://schoolofthepossible.com/invitation/.

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On the subject of videos and courses and possibility, I finally had a chance to watch It's Not About Scale, It's About Abstraction, François Chollet's keynote address at AGI-24. The video is part of the course material for the Analogy, Abstraction, and Reasoning course I mentioned yesterday. I'm still processing the information from the talk, I'm sure I'll have more to say later.

One thing I will mention about the video relates to the production and editing. I've seen all too many videos from conferences that struggle in showing the information on the screen that the presenter is using. In this video, the wide shot of the stage has been edited to replace the original video of the large projection screen with a high resolution version of the slide. A seemingly small thing that many people may not even notice, except maybe to think, "wow, that looks good". But I can tell you it is a big thing, not something that most people think of doing when pulling together a conference video. Mainly because it is "hard", in the sense that you have to take the time to plan it out and do it, and "expensive", in the sense you have to pay to do it.

It brought to mind something from Majid Iqbal's book, Thinking in Services, that I have prominently posted at my workstation: "Outcomes are what you pay for, experience is what you pay with." More on that some other time.

Cheers,