Seeking Coastal Utopia

Whose eyes are you seeing the problem through? Whose perspective are you taking when you propose a solution? Are you sure that you are doing the right thing for the end-user, the customer, the person you are trying to understand? “Will this help magnify their worldview?” Photo by Ronan on  Unsplash Understanding and accomplishing an empathetic viewpoint is imperative for success. Being able to see the problem from their eyes, within their world, is necessary for building strong relationships , adoption, and overall change management. How many times has something changed within your business? The way you used to access something, or the software or hardware that you came to depend upon worked well. The system you were comfortable with? And. It. Has. Changed. Here comes the Information Technology team within your organization, almost out of the blue. They are here to solve a problem that you did not realize even existed. To provide you with a solution without unde...

Have you seen the NSFW music video from Childish Gambino ?  Or this NSFW one by Joyner Lucas ?  One shows a stimulating and violent visual worldview; the other is an audible and mental worldview (yet still visual but a stark contrast) - both provide a dichotomous perspective on today’s U.S. society.  You have to watch and listen to both songs multiple times to capture items that you missed the first time you watched. Because of those songs and videos, your worldview has changed.  Did you feel the shift?  Do you now look at people differently? What is your worldview?  Everyone has their lenses and filters that they see the world in. I recently had a debate with my nine-year-old daughter about color.  She asked if I saw a particular object as blue, but she said, "What if I said it was red, who would be right?”  How did I learn it was blue ?  How did she learn it was red?  This debate with my nine-year-old daughter about something we ...