Brandon Dang
@bdang
Brandon Dang
“If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.”
-Rick Rubin
Embracing Healthy Ambition | Q&A With Gena Gorlin | #269
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There is no other way work of artistic worth can be done. And the occasional success, to the striver, is worth everything. The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
Mary Oliver • Mary Oliver: The Artist’s Task
Early means it’s okay to still be figuring things out.
Early means it’s okay to be misunderstood.
Early means it’s okay to bring people along for the ride, to make mistakes, to communicate through uncertainty, and to second-guess whether your solution has longevity.
For founders, being early can feel like standing on a subway platform without a clock,... See more
Early means it’s okay to be misunderstood.
Early means it’s okay to bring people along for the ride, to make mistakes, to communicate through uncertainty, and to second-guess whether your solution has longevity.
For founders, being early can feel like standing on a subway platform without a clock,... See more
Britt Gage • A perspective on “being early”
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Chasing peak experiences is chasing a false summit. They just turn to memories and delude you into striving and away from the present
Identify ambition that I vibe with
Put another way, a major reason everyone is so exhausted is because we have been taught to always strive for better, even if we have only the vaguest notion of what that “better” would look like, and even if it means viewing everything in our world as raw material that could potentially be utilized toward that end. But obedience to something outsid... See more
Kelsey Osgood • Why Your "Digital Shabbat" Will Fail
The case for spirituality as a fundamental choice over a self-improvement treadmill. Obedience feels like a strange word here but it feels like theres truth in the sentiment
There is a network of people passionately working on interesting things but when I step back a bit there isn’t a coherent story tying things together other than a broad FAFO / make bets on probabilistic outcomes energy. While there is widespread support with people rooting for each other, something I’ve appreciated after hibernating in Asia, it’s n... See more
Paul Millerd • Laptop Man & New Remote Realities | #280
People want to support each other, but they’re isnt the structure to actually support in a meaningful way besides just like and follow