Doing work that matters

Today I was asked, “Are you doing work that really matters to you?”

What a lovely question, I thought! It’s a privilege to be able to answer “Yes: I’m doing work that matters to me.”

I’m intimately aware of how profoundly beneficial one of the bodies of work we’re building currently can be to a great many people. I’m mindful that the joy and enthusiasm I give and receive that body of work is not a commodity among us. Marcus Aurelius wrote, “Just that you do the right thing. The rest does not matter.” The culture change in the roadmap is, by all accounts, “the right thing” in this case.

The good fortune of building important things with people I love being around is not a matter I take for granted.

Are you doing work that really matters to you?

I hope very much that you can answer ‘Yes’, too. And if you can’t, I hope very much that you will do something about that.