"Wow, I didn't even know this world existed." A phrase that captures the feeling of astonishment and awe I get when discovering a whole new set of ideas / ways of thinking / networks of people etc. It's in those moments that my world-view grows very quickly, practically jumps - in business terminology it's the difference between organic growth and acquisition.
I love that feeling and it has hit me time and time again, each time with a different scope and magnitude. I can vividly remember when first discovering the world of tech entrepreneurship in NYC - I attended my first NY Techmeetup after a friend suggested it might be interesting. To my amazement I found over 400 people milling around: entrepreneurs, investors, programming wiz-kids and curious consumers. There were presentations and discussions about new ventures and radical ideas - some of them things I had been discussing among friends but never in such volume. All I could think was "wow, I didn't even know this world existed." It was as if I pulled up some ordinary rock to discover not just an ant or two, but an entire colony.
Seeking out and being open to these kinds of discoveries allows them to happen more frequently (and often when least expecting it). In search of a place to print new business cards, I discovered this post at Creativebits which rounds up some of the most creative designs. My world of business cards and general creative design ideas suddenly made a new acquisition.
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