This seemed an appropriate title for my first LineBuzz blog post. I've heard the phrase many times and finally looked up the origin. It refers to pilots back in the day before all the fancy flight control systems. The pilots would fly by feeling the reactions of the plane through the largest point of contact, the seat of their pants.
The meaning is: To do something without planning, to change course midstream, to figure things out as you go. The new project was discovered over beers in the kitchen (we're out of tequila at the moment which is a crisis all in itself) which qualifies for without planning. We put Geojoey on the sideline for a month changing our course. And daily I hear expletives wafting from the "dev" office so definitely figuring stuff out as we go.
So here's to running with an idea and navigating by our, well, you can fill that part in.

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