A buddy buzzed me last week to ask me how I was doing. I said I’m fine, what’s up. He was calling because he saw some of the comments on Facebook and he wanted to make sure I wasn’t too beat up. My immediate reaction was to laugh -- my reality was so vastly different than whatever he saw on social media. I told him what I’ll tell you now. How people behave on Facebook is not the same as how they behave via email, even.
I heard from over 500 of you, and there were 2-3 rants, mostly where they were baiting me to make this political, which I am not doing. To think -- I got to hear from 500+ of you with great questions, solid feedback, product ideas, and stories about what GORUCK and/or our gear and community mean to you. I’ll take that all day long, it was worth it a million times over and the lesson is to just treat people well and be up front with them -- and send them your email address :)
The thing is, then you GET to answer all of their notes, and what a gift that is to remove all the barriers and just hear directly from the people you work for!
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