Dear…Bang,
I’ve located a first edition, Beatles Please, Please me
That I’ll trade, for Amazing Fantasy #15
The book beloved by many,
The one were webs first learned to fly
I took the book in fairly good
I wrapped it in polyurethane sheaths
Ensuring the quality would then keep
I took the package to a man I met back some months at Comic-con
He owned technology that would change our lives
Technology that would push our fledgling idea forward
Everything that I hope becomes
Hinges solely here upon
He saw the book and his eyes betrayed
Any chance of leverage he might have tried to play
I took far less than market value
Yet gained his trust and learned much more
The secret to dampening noise in ear
This, my friend, is that detail
The one you needed to hear
You said return with a process unveiled
So I return to you now,
With a plan I deem perfect
Perfection in precise detail
Enabling our vision legs and feet
A vision that shall take us there
In so, legends we’ll become as well
Signed: your friend Oluf’s son
Just having a little fun today. I was thinking about all the technological advancements we've achieved as a society, and the rapid expanse taking place the past 30 or so years. Anyhow, I thought to myself, about all those stories regarding the beginnings of these massive empires and life-changing products and inventions. From Googles story to Apple's, to Pixar and on and on.
There's a number of reasons for each of these and other companies successes, some much less dramatic than others, but nevertheless each case is extremely interesting, well at least I feel that way. So I decided to make one of these stories up. I played around with bartering systems that sometimes occur when companies bootstrap in their early days. I thought, what would a letter look like perhaps between two of the pioneers of audio equipment. As it turns out this particular company started back in 1925, so much of what I wrote doesn't hold any shred of believability, but in any case the premise for the piece still holds true.
What would an early conversation look like between two people, that, through their creation(s), shaped and changed the way we do or see things today? Anyhow it's something I find interesting and thought I'd share this write here today.
