Dedication

This blog is for the disruptors, those restless subway riders, not content to live out their days as cogs in the wheel. Disruptors look to stir things up, make a difference, to contribute a verse, as Walt Whitman would say, in the powerful play of life.

Disruptors come in many forms and go by many different names--leader, visionary, entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, intrapreneur, activist, revolutionary, change agent, trouble-maker.

This blog doesn't care what you're trying to change -- a government, a company, a neighborhood, a way of life, or the world. The bottom line is, it's all change and it's all hard.

That's what this blog is about--the hard stuff of change.

O Me! O Life!
By Walt Whitman
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Source: Leaves of Grass (1892)