Failure to Launch

After talking about the blur I started to reflect on how to tackle in parallel some of my short, mid, and long-term goals. Different plates need to be balanced at the same time. Some of these goals are individual but most of them also involve some collective vision. When I am in a safe space, my basic needs are attended to, I'm not worried about fi... See more

Having a clear, achievable goal in mind is crucial. When I began speaking at conferences, I set my goal on eventually speaking at An Event Apart, a web design conference for UX and front-end experts. It was run by Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. Their speakers were people whose blogs I read every day to hone my own craft, and I wanted to be regarde... See more

My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work. The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox https://t.co/v1BWuArhKE... See more

I’ve built probably another 100+ things that went nowhere.

But I believe that if you aren't shipping, you aren’t learning. I learn through putting products out there in the world.

You’ve already failed

No project is going to exactly match every hope you have for it.

And even before you ship the work, you’ve already succeeded. No project is totally worthless.

So, given that failure and success are on a spectrum, at least partly out of our control, the real question is:

Now that you’ve signed up for this window of time and effort... See more