Aggregation empowers.
Interestingly, what assures aggregation is usually significantly different from its parts. This is why powerful aggregates are attributed to luck.
Think of a typical broom. What binds each broomstick is never a broomstick, it is usually a binder made out of a significantly different material.
Alone, the broomsticks are rather limited in utility, but together, with the aid of a binder, possibilities explode.
Entrepreneurship is more about finding binders, than it is about gathering broomsticks. The broomsticks are always there, but the binders require a keen eye.
This is why startups are measured more on scalability than anything else in their early days. If your product is not a binder, aggregation of people around it will be slow. The slower aggregation is, the more likely you are to fail in the long term.
Bringing people together in an unlikely way, thus ensuring limited individuals unleash unlimited potential is a skill. Like all skills, it only gets better with practice.
What do you see that brings people together, and even with the poor quality on offer, they endure?
Can you build it better at scale?
What are you waiting for?
Practice.
– Osasu Oviawe
Day: November 10, 2020
No entitlement
Luke 17:7-10
“Will any one of you, who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep, say to him when he has come in from the field, `Come at once and sit down at table’? Will he not rather say to him, `Prepare supper for me, and gird yourself and serve me, till I eat and drink; and afterward you shall eat and drink’? Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? So you also, when you have done all that is commanded you, say, `We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'”
Homily:
The concept that we have done this, so God will do that. The transactional mindset. It is a recipe for sustained suffering.
A sustained relationship with God is the journey we are on, the end we seek, and in itself, the reward.