It’s time to get off the previous topic, but one thing I left out was how easy it was to lose focus on anything outside of our own work. All the attention paid to getting clients in the door and keeping the business working resulted in a lot less attention paid to things like conferencing, peer networking, and even web standards (that’s a longer story.)

It’s with this in mind that I link you off to Greg’s memo mission statement. A clip:

In this new year, it is simply not going to be enough to just meet your bottom line, but to help others who may not be in a position to be so entrepreneurial or carefree.

I wish more people in the industry had this attitude and the character to follow through. I wish they could take it back in time about eight years and let it play forward. Go read (if you haven’t already.)