Zack Kass

One of the most common characteristics of people's least favorite friend is that they are nice enough and they trust them enough, but these are people that don't stand for anything because they are constantly trying to either satisfy everyone else or accomplish something else.

They are infinitely adaptable.

They are a candle in the wind.

And the problem with telling everyone that you need to be more adaptable is that it is actually reinforcing this idea that we should all constantly be changing, which is like not really true.

What we should do, I argue now, is commit more than ever what I call anchor to our mission, vision, and values.

There are some things in a world that is constantly changing, especially right now technologically, that we should be unwavering about.

And for many people, my argument is your exercise should be, what am I insistent on?

What is my north star?

What is the point in the distance that I want to achieve?

And that is the thing.

So my argument is we should be committed to our mission, vision, and values, what I call anchored to our mission, vision, and values.

And those mission and vision and values should be unwavering for us.

Now, this is an exercise unto itself that a lot of people have not done.

Actually sitting with yourself and saying, what is it that I believe?

What do I want to accomplish?

And how does my future look?

Tough for a lot of people.

What we should be adaptable to, I argue, is the ways and means with which we accomplish that.

Adaptability should show up in our actual tooling and the ability to use different services and different technologies to accomplish our mission, vision, values.

And so for a lot of people right now, the scary part is that a new technology will show up and they'll be like, wait, maybe I should do that job.