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What a bizarre place where it's braver for a man to wear a dress, than to actually crash a balloon into the sea.

• gorgoiler 5y ago
  We can fear machines and technology but we can master them, at least enough to be confident they will survive the Atlantic weather. The balloon broke on take off and yet Branson and Lindstrand believed in their journey because they believed in their tech. It then became a matter of finishing it off without anything else going wrong. At the other end of the spectrum is the anxiety about what other people think and say about us and how well we will do when faced with a challenge or change we brought on ourselves, especially when we really stick our necks out on something completely new. HN is full of people who are maestras and maestros of technology who are sticking their necks out in the capricious people-centric world of business. It’s a site built for entrepreneurs even if the majority of us visitors (myself included) are tech janitors. And in terms of the transformation the most surprising part, I think, wasn’t the dress. It was the lipstick.