Turning your vision into reality

Hopefully, I’ve articulated <a href="https://medium.com/p/3815216346f" rel="noopener">the importance of having a clear view of what you’re trying to achieve</a>. This is a prerequisite for being able to deliver something non-trivial alongside lots of other human beings. However, the next stage is harder than it sounds. Today, I will write about how I think about translating vision into action. In particular, how to address the common problem of “how do I plan when I don’t know everything?” Which, it turns out, is every time you write a plan. The trouble is that we often start with only a rough idea of what we want to do. I’ll take an example — I used to work for a company that did travel, and their vision was “become the single app for all your travel needs.” The company believed there was an opportunity in this space that would enable it to scale its business and also had an eye on things like flight search and hotel bookings in Google as a future competitor. The first thing you should recognise about this is it’s an aspirational goal. Aspirational goals are a good thing when they can give people a framework for understanding the direction of travel. Other examples might include Google’s “organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible” or Microsoft’s “a computer on every desktop” as unifying visions, which turned out pretty well for them. <a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/turning-your-vision-into-reality-1258cb60a667">Website</a>