05/31/08

"When all around you are using common sense, fill the gap. Use UNCOMMON sense."

I am reminded in everything I do, that common sense is just that. Common. It seems to me, if we want to make a difference we need to stick our neck out and do now what other people won't, so we can do later what other people can't.

Cowboy Logic has a reputation as the type of thinking that charges ahead without planning with a cavalier grin and a devil may care attitude about the results. In the software industry, Cowboy Code is the term given software that was built in the late 20th century and early 21st century by a bunch of 25 year old millionaires who broke the industry open with seemingly endless bank rolls and a computer in the garage.

The truth about Cowboy Logic, is considerably different. It's a story of studied observation and life lessons that prepares a cowboy to charge into a life and death situation with an air of everyday work on the job. The thing is, the hours of observation and learning culminates in the right move done at the speed of a charging steer.

This writer's group has learned that the publisher's door opens very slightly and is closed again very quickly. Observation has made us aware that quality will find its way to paper. If we dedicate our selves to observe and learn, one day others will point and say how lucky we were to charge in and get published so easily.

In this little writer's community, I hope we can help each other excel by encouragement, understanding, combined effort and brutal but fair honesty.