Pull a Kleenex tissue out of the box and, like magic, the next one pops up. Of course the magic trick is simple. By interfolding the tissues, as you pull the first one up it has enough friction to hold on to the interfolded tissue below it.
That neat feature was introduced way back in 1928 and we've been taking it for granted ever since.
Here's the thing. Some inventor, way back when, invested part of their life's work into figuring out this useful feature.
In fact, everything in our complex technological world had its beginnings with someone's investment in figuring it out. Think of all the lives—the thousands of aha! moments—invested in enabling you to be reading this post and for me to be writing it and sending it to you.
Closer to home, when we design an input stage with a current source rather than a simple resistor, we're leveraging the life's work of an engineer (Bob Widlar to be specific). But this post isn't about the work of one person that invented the pop up Kleenex or the current source. No, this post is about the opportunity each of us have to build upon what we have right in front of us.
What are each of us doing with the cards dealt to us?
Are we building something extraordinary in our living room? Have we managed to piece together that unique 2-channel system that no one else has? In that room unique to you?
We each have a chance to build the remarkable. What are we doing with it?
