Comments on: Design, Authenticity, Innovation

By: Vone Bowly

Vone Bowly — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:27:54 +0000

Would love to obtain a copy of the Pilgrim’s Progress Map you have on your website – do you know where I can get a copy ?

By: hugh

hugh — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:22:05 +0000

Joseph, thanks for the thoughtful response. I am thinking a lot these days about the intersection of the market and the authentic – and wondering if there is some way to offer the artisinal in a mass-produced situation. I think that there is a new model of storytelling, based on dialog or discourse rather than a one-way ‘controlled’ outbound process.

By: inkstain

inkstain — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:49:28 +0000

What is it that creates that authenticity? What a great subject for story – so much of story is associated with fabrication – but the process of story here – in this blog – and it does a great job of it – is about having an emotional experience as a business owner and having that experience become a meaningful tool to establish credibility. I think we’re, as Americans, self-aware – or in this case self-conscious – we know our pursuit of success has material awards, it’s a meaning vacuum. We have everything on this side of the world – but we reckon with substance and authenticity. We bend over backwards for people in a business context – for people we may avoid in any other context. Strange, huh? That’s the nature of business – or of money. But we do it because we believe our own story about what we offer. Money is a tool to give our best. It keeps us on our best behavior. And brings out our worst simultaneously. Story is the meeting place between the two.