ROB OSBORNE | Go Forth & Conquer
So a little bit about me. I'm an artist, a writer, a creative thinker, a runner, a husband, a father, and everything else. I draw cartoons, design things, make things go.
Are you interested in art? Living a life of adventure? World domination? Then you may like what's happening here.
The world is yours. Go forth and conquer!
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There’s a scene in The Social Network where the honchos are discussing “the face book”. (That really narrows it down) Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker) makes the point that adding advertising to the site will make it uncool. Ads will ruin everything.
But that’s not the point. He also says, and I’m paraphrasing here, that they don’t even know what it is yet.
Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker): You don’t even know what the thing is yet. How big it can get, how far it can go. This is no time to take your chips down. A million dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool?
Eduardo Saverin: [Sarcastically] You?
Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker): A billion dollars.
Okay, let’s forget about the million versus a billion argument and focus on the “don’t even know what the thing is yet”. Early in a project (and oftentimes in the middle), you may not be clear on what it is that makes the project go, what gives it life and energy. You just know that it has a pulse.
Get started. Let Frankenstein live for a while before you hand him a lunch pail and send him off to work his construction job.
Grow your monster until you know what it is. Stick with it. That’s the point.
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