I tried my best to explain what we were doing, but I was also conscious not to risk over-promising our potential, considering just how much we didn’t know ourselves. For several of our principal stakeholders the tension started to grow uncomfortable. It was hard to trust my assertion that “we’re onto something”, even though nobody had seen anything like the thing we were onto. I think we managed to survive this tension due to the simultaneously palpable excitement had started to build in the shared production spaces where we were working.
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Change comes from a willingness to try something that doesn’t match what’s come before. When an iceberg calves from a glacier we see sudden transformation as tons of ice crash into the sea. But what we don’t necessarily see is the inexorable, relentless push of the glacier down to the sea, the long-term, root cause of the calving front. The thunderous change we observe is the sudden visibility of what’s really a deeper, longer, richer process.
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Hanging like a jewel in the dark, the Earth shines as depicted on NOAA's Science On a Sphere, even in a grainy cell phone snap!
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