hairball orbits

Orbiting is following your bliss

So I got a copy of Orbiting The Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie. It's a beautifully made book - full of cartoons, doodles, memorable images (GM started off as an artist at Hallmark Cards). Above all it's messy. None of the perfectly drafted diagrams that sit in business books as tasteful conversation pieces. And the writing is great. GM's style (stories, parables, reflections) falls just the right side of folksy. The humour is self-deprecating. And how can I not love the passion for experimentation, exploration, to innovation? The right for each of us to try something a bit different sometimes.

I won't tell you what the hairball is. You'll have to get the book to do that.

P.S. I just found out GM died in 1999. Hot damn. Thank goodness he wrote this book when he did.