A “flamboyant” worker, exuberant and excited, is willing to risk control over his or her work: machines break down when they lost control, whereas people make discoveries, stumble on happy accidents.*
Richard Sennett

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done and in doing work it is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we invest this energy, memories, thoughts, and feelings are all shaped by it.**
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There’s someone who works for you,
Full of ideas, loads of energy, bright eyes,
And they come to you to ask if they could try something out –
In a controlled way to mitigate risk
and for a limited time so that it can be evaluated:
What do you say?

We can’t/we don’t do it that way? –
How crazy would that be? – or,
Ever tried?
Ever failed?
No matter.
Try again.
Fail better.^

*Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman;
**Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow;
^Samuel Beckett, from Jonathan Hoban’s Walk With Your Wolf.