Because I am so proper I did not swear in my title above, but funny enough, as Louis C.K. said well just by putting it that way, ya know, just by phrasing F -expletive- as if that hides it makes it not hidden for me and so you might as well have said the word, but now you have gone and made me say it and that is even worse because shame on you, you could have just wrote it. I mean, do I, or you, really believe that it is actually better slash more polite or proper or correct then just saying “Just Fucking Do It!”
Well funny enough I am pretty old school about cussing and swearing and talking, well, in a way that is crude or unintelligent, BUT! I will also rush to say that I, by no means, practice what I preach. Somehow I think it is okay to cuss in front of my kids, but yet I tell them that they should not cuss. Okay, okay, just be patient because I am getting to my point, I just needed some rambling to happen first. So…
the thing is is that there are appropriate times to swear and there are inappropriate times and when you are 8 years old then I classify that as inappropriate. Again, I will rush to say that this is neither good nor bad, or right or wrong. It is simply my value set and even though I see it happening all around me, oh yeah, by the way, did I mention I live in Denmark; even though I see it happening all around me I still hold on to some…well, some perhaps outdated realities. (on another note, I am writing about this because the Danes use a lot of the English curse words, as well as the Danish curse words, quite normally in average every day scenarios, for example, many chidren say, “Shit!” and even “Fuck”. But what has been even more crazy for me is that in the “business” world then many of the leaders and CEOs of companies are throwing F-bombs left and right, and again, I get that times are changing, but I just wonder…
Anyway, now my point, I have been participating in my first startup weekend in search of a really cool – well I guess you could say, “a cool coding buddy” that could be interested in joining us. Well, one of the speakers was a young Danish entrepreneur who has written part 1 of his autobiography and it is called “Just Fucking Do It!”. It’s pretty close to an un-politically correct Nike, but nonetheless a title of a book that you would remember. So, that is where all the ramblings and digression came from because this Dane was cussing at the SWEDU and that is what I wa going to write about. Anyway, SWEDU so far…
#pivotstory I was able to facilitate the brainstorming to validate the original idea for the startup. By facilitate, I am suggesting that I was mediating the discussion, however, I may have been “leading” the discussion, in retro, I must admit I don’t remember. Anywho. Who? Any. Or actually I mean Who? Any. Any who? I digress… The learn was that we have a strong team and the opportunity to make something was very probable. I pitched, I mean pushed, no I do mean pitched my idea about improving communication and this time I was able to build a team of 4 full time startup weekenders and 2 part time startup weekenders (our designer got sick). Anyway, long status short, we just had a fucking, kick ass day and built something! Yay! I am looking forward to teacher interviews. We will get some great information to help sharpen up the pitch and I got some good ideas about the pitch deck. Oooooo, it’s fun creating a company over a weekend.