Comfort != Happiness

The last couple of posts (Brussels Sprouts and Difficulty Is A Vector) might give you the impression that it's all doom and gloom at Tribal these days and that's not the case.  We're currently in The Dip, where we've made a massive push and have made serious progress,  but have hit our first real wall -- getting unit #1 open and operating. 

The gloomy posts serve two purposes. The first is to let people who are going through similar challenges know that we share their angst.  The other reason is that if we don't capture the difficult times now, we'll likely gloss over them in the future when they're behind us. 

That brings me to the title of the post.  We simply don't equate comfort with happiness.  I'm not sure when this got drilled into us, but I think it really gelled during our "big company" days.  All too often, we saw folks choose the path of comfort and with pretty dismal results.  Opportunities were missed, implementations were mediocre, and innovation withered all because someone (or several someones) in the dependency graph decided that they didn't want to be uncomfortable.

So, the forecast for the next few weeks is lower lows, with a chance of higher highs and gusting difficulties in the direction of our choosing.