And what about everyone else?

It's not often I think that Seth Godin is being ungenerous.  But I think he is in this post.

Of course Seth is writing for his tribe, those with what Shelle Rose Charvet would call  an 'Options' preference.  Who love uncertainty, exploration, overshooting boundaries and blank sheets of paper.

But not everyone works like that.   A few like to slavishly follow a process step-by-step.  Most of us like to have a map.  Or a score we can interpret in our own way.

That doesn't make us want to be a cog in a machine without responsibility or accountability.  It just means we like to see where we are, where the destination is and what the possible routes are.   We are perfectly willing to take responsibility, be on the hook, initiate action.  It's just that like children, we play more freely when we can see the boundaries.

Industrial control was never the answer to human flourishing, but neither is a void.

A little bit of discipline makes a lot of daring possible.