Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

The Sticky Note exemplifies the temporary idea. Nothing is a useful and, at the same time, as benign as a temporary idea.

I guess you aren’t supposed to write about Sticky Notes. They are temporary by nature.

Hmm, temporary. Temporary things seem to ease the fears of many even though these many don’t realize it.

It is easy to catch an idea. And because it is scribbled on a temporary little note, it is easy to throw such an idea forward. If it is a bad idea, and hey, we all have bad ideas, it won’t hurt too much because it didn’t cost much to catch and throw it.

People seem to accept and discuss temporary ideas. Ideas chiseled in stone, however, are not so acceptable. They can hurt and they won’t go away. This simple little friendly little Sticky Note, well, that one comes and goes and doesn’t hurt. Perhaps we’ll consider it a little more and, who knows, even use it.