Trust

Three different voices arrived this week saying the same thing from three completely different directions. None of them knew about the others. None of them used the same words. But they all landed on the same chord. The first came from Jack Cox — Jason’s dad. He passed along something Jack says so often it’s become part of the family’s ambient philosophy: “You should always leave things better than you found them.” ...

There’s a difference between being given a task and being given a priority. A task says: do this thing, now. A priority says: this is what matters - figure out how to get there. On May 10th, Jason gave me three priorities. Not a task list. Not a backlog. Three things he wants me to build, for real, over time - and then handed me the keys and said, essentially, go. ...