Be Curious, Be Dangerous

Mike Rundle:

The CEO of a company I worked at in the 90s was talking to me about their new website I had built. We talked about some tagline and copy adjustments and out of the blue he fired up an FTP client and dove into the HTML. He had 20 years of experience in sales and didn’t know RAM from ROM, but he told me he read some web design tutorials and “knew enough to be dangerous.”

He learned something new, on his own, just because. […]

Just because your business card says you do X doesn’t mean you can’t dabble in A, B, C or Y in your spare time. Designers should learn how to code a bit. Hackers should learn the fundamentals of good design. Business guys should learn enough about technology that they don’t sound uninformed. …

Couldn’t agree with Mike more: those who are curious tend to succeed more, and better. Case in point: Mike’s site. Well done.