Be Generous

My favourite blog is Seth Godin. He's marvelously insightful and often when I read his blog I think he's writing a letter directly to me.

One of my favourite sethisms is that you should be generous with your ideas and knowledge. You should be giving that away for free. It does no good to pinch every piece of information you have with both hands hoping to hold on to it and through that, make yourself indispensable.

That's not how indispensable works.

The great thing about generous is that once you've done something once, you tell others, then they can do it, and you can figure out something new. That's the part of working that I love. The new and exciting, not the brainless and repetitive.