I am not going to complain today or bring up anything that you or I should do. What I am going to talk about is something that I find pretty interesting. When I work on electronics, it is difficult for me to fix things because I can’t see as well as I used to, and my hands shake. Sometimes, I sit at the table, and I am trying to solder something and it is like a moving target. I see people get on videos and do it effortlessly but for me, seems pretty challenging. Same thing with building things or fixing things. I can fix things, and I can build things, but it takes me longer than it does other people. I didn’t post yesterday as I would normally do because I made a giant hole in my wall by accident. Then I had to get all the stuff to fix the wall. The problem is that everything looks easy until you try to do it yourself. It becomes a challenge unless of course you have the experience of doing it.
One of the things I think we should do in life and business is build things. I think if we are forced to go into an office, there should be an open area with Legos, electronic things, Lincoln logs all sorts of things for people to build real things. Why? Simple, because most of the time people are full of shit and don’t know what it takes to make something. They estimate bullshit numbers, and they make believe they understand things that they don’t understand. When you mess up a wall, you can hide it or try to hide it but the truth is, the wall is messed up. Same thing if you were building something. You can’t hide that the thing doesn’t work. If you can’t follow directions on a Tuesday afternoon and make a little Lego schoolhouse, maybe you need to be nicer to the people that work with you.
Just saying, don’t you get tired of fake timelines and estimations by people who really have no idea how to literally screw in a lightbulb? We should have mandatory “Maker” moments, and I’ll tell you the people who need them are the ones all the way at the top. People who say “digital transformation” they need to know how to program the “digital remote” for their television.
This is important because companies will have a bunch of leaders that can talk the talk but they don’t know how to do the work. They try to cut costs and cut people, they do a transformation thing. They talk about the same problems and same issues for their whole career. When they fire people, they have to hire new people, it is like a fresh start. Eventually, they get caught and they will have to find another job but it takes a while and when they leave, they make it look like they were successful. They are putting a picture or wallpaper over their jackkkeeddd up walls. Aren’t you tired of dealing with these folks?
You want to get them identified quickly, get them to make something. If they can’t make it, then it is time to break it!
Go build something..