It has been a while…
COVID-19 ripped through my life most likely very similar to what it did for yours: It went from 💩 to 😝 to 😱 to… you get the picture (or emoji)?
If you have seen my last post, you know that I recently read Blake Snyder’s excellent book on screenwriting “Save the Cat”. It is a great (and fun) read which made me think about storytelling in a different way (especially in the context of pitching a business and my…
My former boss at Mozilla, John Lilly, used to preface his presentations with a note that stated that “there are no maps.” He then extended the notion that there are, of course, maps — but that they are never yours. I’ve picked up this idea twice on The Heretic (here and here).
My former boss and Mozilla’s then-CEO John Lilly kept telling folks that there are no maps. He prefaced every presentation with this warning — and the note that “your mileage will vary.”
It is a solid and essential reminder: Any and all advice someone gives you…