This is one of the things I’ve been think­ing about recently for inspi­ra­tion and moti­va­tion. If you want peo­ple to fol­low you and your work you need to become a spe­cial­ist in some field. Once you’ve estab­lished your­self, being a leader is a nat­ural step.

I keep this in mind not because I expect to become the leader of my field, but rather to focus on the short term goals that will lead me in that direc­tion. For me I see the need to spe­cial­ize to estab­lish a unique image for Sidearm. To find a set of themes and styles that makes this place unmis­tak­ably dif­fer­ent. Lead­er­ship is not the goal, it is the result of the insight gath­ered through count­less hours of hard work in per­suit of specialization.

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