Do you want to be remembered for doing something you hate?

By solle on 22/08/2013 — 1 min read

Don’t trade cheap mentions of efforts and invention that you don’t really mean and barely understand. Don’t bullshit yourself. Kill the acronyms. Kill the labels. Keep your loose mouth and stumbling design walk in check. Try harder, think harder, hope harder, type harder.

Pitching and pinching and pouting the same thing over and over. To hell with excitement, long dark days and oppression. Show me something worthwhile. Nobody will remember steaming bullshit in a matter of months. There are no sunsets or horizons. We want hope, change and help. We want to make a difference. Do you want to be remembered for doing something you hate?

“That point when you don’t want to be caught between what you are doing, what you are producing and yourself. You don’t want to be in the way. You don’t want to get in the way. You don’t want to contaminate it. You want the work to be great, not you to be great.

You don’t want it to have a reflection. You don’t want to have a reflection. You want it to just be about the work. About making a difference. About helping.”

@solle
//somewhere in england

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I am a user centred design leader working across senior design leadership teams and user centred design operations. I work across a wide range of digital services within the public, private and not for profit sectors.