Three lines in the sand. The level of customer adoption. The capabilities of the technology. The story you have to tell of its capabilities.

Did I really control so little? It appeared so. Time to stop holding so tightly to invisible rope.

If nothing else, experience is a teacher. If nothing else, experience creates empathy. If nothing else, experience shapes you.

What can push you to the edge? What are you moved by? Who are you moved by?

First, Alfred Noyes takes the stage. The road was a ribbon of moonlight. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.  Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear? — Now, an inspired mentee. A bubbling sense of panic, that pierced like needles through the skin. Too strained to…