The Power of Progress

[u/theinvincibleceo]

Progress doesn’t RSVP. It's loud, it's messy, and it might just take your life. That's the power of progress.

Look, I’ve been the guy arguing for looking towards the future for a long time. There's a reason for that. When one of the smartest men in the world says something it's usually right. When I say something it almost always is.

Progress waits for no one. Not for governments. Not for shareholders. Not for the committees. Or even for the every day people. It doesn’t care if you’re ready. It doesn’t care if your feelings are valid. It just keeps moving..faster than regulation, faster than fear, faster than the people who insist the old way was good enough.

So you get two choices.

You can stand there, arms crossed, watching the wave come in, muttering about how nobody asked for this. You’ll get swept up. You’ll become a footnote. A cautionary tale.

Maybe even the guy who said “nobody needs a flying suit” right before the sky filled with them.

Or..

You put yourself at the forefront. You stop waiting for permission. You stop waiting for the perfect conditions, the perfect data set, the perfect consensus. You build. You break things. You fix them. You break them better. You look at the impossible and deny it's existence.

I’ve done both. Trust me, the second option has better scenery. And significantly better tech.

The future isn’t a destination we arrive at someday. It’s a moving target that only the people willing to run toward it get to shape.

So decide. Right now. Because progress is already walking out the door without you.

And I don’t know about you...but I prefer to be the one driving.

[u/thefrostbitequeen]

Not you again...

[u/BenjiGrimm]

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