"No one gets anywhere alone"
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"No one gets anywhere alone"
Success is not guaranteed, but it beats sitting on the sidelines, waiting for certainty that will never come.
Why People Fail to Make Important Choices
The other route is to become a working professional, a leader, someone who chooses to ship creative work. And shipping means that it’s for someone. To commit to that path is a brave and generous act. And it puts you on the hook to see the audience clearly enough, and to be brave enough, to develop the empathy needed to create generous work.
Seth Godin • The Practice
Without a patron, you’re rolling the dice, hoping for the best— and the world is unkind to such gambles.
Jeff Goins • Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age
I would just say that, in my experience, if you really want to go into venture capital…don’t let people tell you that you can’t do it. Make your own path and just go. Like, just do things. Just start down the path. Maybe you don’t know where you’re going to end up or if you’ll get there necessarily, but just start doing things that you think will h
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The good stuff is always lonely in the beginning. Nothing meaningful will get made if its potential makers all wimp out too soon, because they get scared by the sparse crowd, the empty room.
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
the subtle posture that has taken a lot of experimentation and failure to cultivate is like
1. realize that most people won’t get you or understand or care
2. be at peace with that, not bitter or vindictive, and look past them for the “few” that get it, and care
When pursuing a 1-of-1 vision, you aren’t going to be the most popular or celebrated person. You’re going to be an oddity that the most in-the-know people — who are especially aware of social status and trends — will dismiss. But even though these cultural influencers shape the opinions of others (you pay attention to them, after all), they are not
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