{"id":3191,"date":"2020-08-13T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2020-07-25T07:45:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T12:45:57","slug":"this-project-vs-the-big-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/08\/this-project-vs-the-big-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"This Project vs. the BIG IDEA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What interests me today? The project that I am working today? Perhaps not.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I know I am working on this project today, but it is just another project. Sure, I want it to succeed, but really, it&#8217;s just another one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What really interests me is finding the BIG IDEA. That thing that I will turn into a big open-source project that thousands of programmers will love and work with me. I will be famous and give $10,000 appearances every week (all expenses paid first class). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BIG IDEA is so much better than this project. That is why this project isn\u2019t doing so well, but it will be okay. I mean, it\u2019s just another project. There are many and will be many more until I find that BIG IDEA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay, let&#8217;s switch from me &#8220;the dreamer of BIG IDEAS&#8221; to me the project manager. Are the people working on this project with me devoted to the success of this project? Are these persons dreaming instead of something else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is to our benefit for me to take time and ask. Take time and have a conversation about today and tomorrow and dreams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And have the humility to wish that someone on this project will have a BIG IDEA and all those BIG IDEA dreams will come true for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips What interests me today? The project that I am working today? Perhaps not. I know I am working on this project today, but it is just another project. Sure, I want it to succeed, but really, it&#8217;s just another one. What really interests me is finding the BIG IDEA. That thing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,9,67],"tags":[165,132,187],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-management","category-work","tag-ideas","tag-management","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}