I just read Seth Godin's The Dip. I'm working on applying his thoughts to the space movement and humanity's pursuit of space flight. But, I ran into a problem. The book incorporates the idea of mediocrity; basically, if your mediocre, you should quit. There's the problem, can anything NASA does be mediocre? Can anything at the cutting edge be mediocre? We're building rockets and going to space, can that be mediocre in anyway? I think it can, I think you could build a mediocre rocket, but that's a tough claim to prove.
What do you think? Can you be at the cutting edge and be mediocre?
