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We are the explorers

Simon Collison
November 14, 2011

We are the explorers

Creative people are usually deep thinkers, obsessively pursuing thorough lines of inquiry. Most of us shaping the web are no exception, each eager to learn, analyze, and share as we swim against an endless tide of information and opinion. To succeed we must understand our strengths, and develop an integrity by which we find our focus and measure our contribution. It’s not so much about a destination as it is about just doing. Join Simon as he takes stock of where we’re headed – both as an industry and as individuals – with stories designed to inspire and make us more optimistic about our roles in building the web.

Simon Collison

November 14, 2011
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  1. It took me until my 40s to realize: There’s no

    destination. There’s no ge ing anywhere. There’s just the going. Pa on Oswalt
  2. The reason that most of us are unhappy most of

    the time is that we set our goals—not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them—we set our goals for the person we are when we set them. Dan Gilbert
  3. To progress and to create work of substance or even

    greatness, we each must start by knowing our values, our strengths, and the level of expertise we seek Strengths and values
  4. I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed

    once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. Thomas Edison
  5. I’m self-actualised, without the stamp of approval from any guild,

    curriculum authority, or academic institution. I’m web taught. Colleague taught. Empirically taught. Jon Tan
  6. Cra smanship is a basic human impulse: the desire to

    do a job well for its own sake Richard Senne
  7. Tools are the scaffold for what we produce, the enablers.

    They help us bring our ideas to fruition. Our tools
  8. The tool doesn’t make the cra sman. Choosing the right

    tool for the right purpose is a technical and personal choice. Oliver Reichenstein
  9. Inquiring beyond the “necessary” to explore other areas, look at

    things differently, and bring these findings back into our work. Creative inquiry
  10. We are the builders. We are the makers. We are

    the users. We are the explorers. The complete designer