HOME FRONTNUMBER ABOUT Subscribe 7 MARCH 2018 There Is No Magic Pill "This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... You stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus, "The Matrix" I don't have enough fingers to count the number of times I've wanted desperately to take that blue pill. It's often cited that the blue pill represents the blissful ignorance of illusion. Childlike. You know the feeling where you wake up in a cold room but you're wrapped up in a warm blanket and you don't want to leave your bed? I would love that. I'd probably take that pill. Because startups are hard. The red pill on the other hand represents knowledge, freedom, and the brutal truth of reality. This is where I've been living day in and day out. A million things coming at me all at once. I didn't get my workout in. I didn't start that project I need to start. There isn't enough money to hire someone. I don't spend enough time with the kids. My personal hygene is... suffering. This is my reality. But there is some salvation. And for me it's the Matrix's concept of the spoon. Neo goes to see a child bending spoons with his mind. He is upset because he can't bend the spoons with his mind like the child can. Then he reveals his secret: "Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only realize the truth: there is no spoon. Then you will see that it not the spoon that bends, it is yourself." Change, just like that spoon, is hard. Only when a person changes himself can he change reality. It doesn't happen overnight and it won't happen if you don't do something about it. Start today. Sure you have to want it. But wanting it isn't enough. Do. The work. The repititions. No one, and I mean no one, will do it for you. Just do. (I needed a kick in the ass today, so if you're reading this know that it's not really for you. It's for me. If you take nothing else away from this, it's that there is no spoon.) Subscribe to Chromis Technology Get the latest posts delivered right to your inbox Subscribe Zach Garcia WI boy. AZ man. Husband of Lynn. Dad to Lyza Bea and Arden Jay. Lover of gadgets and home automation. Art collector. Eater. Home cook. Diner outer. Food nerd. Once ran *from* the bulls. Read More Chromis Receives Digium Award (Again) I'm running out of room on the shelf in my office. As you can see it's littered with my business book collection and Digium Pinnacle Circle of Excellence awards. And it's just been 1 MIN READ Phoenix Startup Week 2018 February 19-23, 2018 Phoenix isn't all cactus and coyotes. According to Gregslist of Arizona Software Companies there are currently 297 AZ based active companies. We're part of the Silicon Desert and we're proud 1 MIN READ Chromis Technology © 2021 Latest Posts Facebook Twitter Ghost