Years ago, I sat at work, taking part in one of our regular meetings designed to motivate all of us employees to do blaggidy-blahdy-blah-blah. The point of this particular meeting was to point out how we were all doing a good job, but we needed to do better. Just doing enough to succeed wasn't cutting it... we needed to blow everyone away with how AWESOME we were. This could be accomplished by taking a couple of extra minutes to give our work that extra bit of razzle-dazzle blah.
To illustrate their point, they came up with the credo, "Remarkable is Better than Good" which they incorporated into a Power Point presentation that was sure to make us all crap a load of SPECTACULAR directly into the back of our undergarments.
However, the powers that be didn't take the couple of extra minutes needed to make sure their Power Point was formatted to view properly on the big screen TV... thus displaying their credo as "arkable is Better than Goo".
Beautiful.
I turned to the guy sitting next to me and said, "Someday, man. Someday. I'm going to start a blog where I, like everyone else on the internet, can ramble about whatever I so desire... and I'm using THAT as the title."
To which the guy sitting next to me replied, "What's a blog?"
And that guy... was Bill Gates. True story.
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